Beauty - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 1981 (Revised December 1984)
Case

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

position in the market. Q: Do you have a favorite case? A: One of the cases I wrote is about BMW Films' award-winning marketing campaign. These were eight beautiful short films by famous directors, each less than ten minutes long, stuck... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

21 Aug 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

most urgently need? Do people know how to find the food truck closest to them at any given moment? Taken together, they amount to the lifeblood of Boston—the sometimes unglamorous but always necessary work that makes a city thrive. They fuel the creation of small... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

15 Apr 2015
Blog Post

Subverting Career Trajectories

interests. The beauty of the section is that it forces us away from this tendency. Some of my closest friends have experiences or interests that are very different from mine, and yet we connect well on so many levels. I have a background... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

America the Difficult

bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock portfolio investors and a very difficult one for direct investors. Why is it so... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance

01 Jan 2011
News

Peter Harf, MBA 1974

privately held Joh. A. Benckiser SE, which owns Coty, Labelux, and stakes in Reckitt Benckiser and Burger King. He serves as chairman of Coty, the global beauty company and leader in fragrance. He began his career at The Boston Consulting... View Details

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Remembering Well and Making Meaning of Memorial Day

nods behind masks as we pass one another en route to remotely administered final exams. To call it strange is an understatement. I’ve found this new normal, however – beauty and potential tinged by loss – analogous to how many veterans... View Details

28 May 2019
News

Research Brief: Field Research

Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ecuador, Kenya, Pakistan, and Rwanda, and aims to expand that reach to 100 million farmers. According to Cole, the beauty of the work is threefold. First, it’s meeting a demand. “The majority of the world’s poorest... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture

01 Sep 2016
News

In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man

Eiffel Tower and handed out paper cups of champagne.” Up in smoke: “There’s a temple dedicated to loss—of loved ones, ideas, pets, hopes, dreams. All week long, people bring tributes to this beautiful wooden building and write messages on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

29 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

purpose-driven brands. More recently, I served as CEO of a private equity-backed beauty and wellness company. Like many career journeys, my path ebbed and flowed. When my kids were young, I decided to step away from full-time roles and... View Details

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

economies across and within activities vary by activity and type of organic expansion; and (4) across-activity internal economies are asymmetric. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-025.pdf Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2021
News

Growing Home

also planning to make it a TV station with an internet video component. And we have created a park and event space on a piece of land overlooking Lake Senba, which is a beautiful lake. It is next to Kairaku-en, which is a very historical... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Sep 2020
News

Good Odds

impacts. Seeing an opportunity in the vast amount of waste within the food system, Imperfect Foods began purchasing “number twos” directly from farmers in California’s Central Valley in 2015. Those are the slightly lumpy tomatoes or twisted carrots that don’t meet the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; food industry; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

11 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)

business friendly. We're family and community oriented. It's football heaven—Go, Cowboys! It's full of sunshine. Can you finish this statement? My perfect workout is "An hour of moderate- to high-intensity hiking on some beautiful outdoor... View Details

Keywords: fitness; wellness; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2011
News

The Rankings Game

numbers. The Economist also gathers data on the percentage of international and female students and the number of languages offered. Meaningless Beauty Contests? BusinessWeek fired the first shot in what became a media ranking “arms race”... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

29 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

Life is Good, I led a lifestyle apparel brand dedicated to spreading optimism. Later, I joined Katie Couric Media as President of Katie Couric Media Marketplace, where we collaborated with purpose-driven brands. More recently, I served as CEO of a private equity-backed... View Details

08 Feb 2018
Blog Post

WesTrek: A Recap of the Largest Professional Trek at Harvard Business School

rethink my perspective on my job search going forward. Finally, I made some great friends among classmates, which helped really tie together the whole unique experience." The ‘WesTrekkers’ arrived in San Francisco on a beautiful... View Details

Keywords: Technology

25 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business

AMAZING company), that I took a close look at where I wanted to be in the long term. After much self-reflection, I realized my heart was still with my family business. I packed up my bags in beautiful Portland, OR and headed home to... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)

effort to relocate 100 rhinos from South Africa, where poaching is a constant threat, to safer havens in Botswana. “It’s a very raw experience to be close with a large wild animal,” he says. “Our lives are often very removed from the rhythms of nature and both the... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Jan 2012
News

Is Tax Reform Viable?

My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased the enterprise in which I had... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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