Beauty - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2024
Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

an educational excursion, it was an enlightening journey into the core of the global flower trade. Witnessing RFH's unique blend of operational efficiency, commitment to sustainability, and dedication to quality, we gained invaluable insights into the complex and View Details

20 Apr 2016
News

Steps to Success

The cashew trees growing into a beautiful shady forest in Fass Koffe, a two-acre community garden in Senegal, are a sight to behold. “Visitors can’t take a step without stepping on a plant,” says Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977), chief... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

24 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

first experience with POE systems, and the implementation team must determine how best to introduce the technology to the physicians and other personnel who will use it. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=603060 Natura:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Mar 2016
News

Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

as a commodity and an investment. Japanese culture has always valued art and incorporated it into nearly everything, Shibayama notes. Something as minor as the gift wrapping on a box is usually carefully considered and meticulously executed to a View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

harness the community and the people to do things for environmental causes. The group, basically, spends its time on the water, in interesting and beautiful windy places, on beaches and oceans, and we decided that because we could, that... View Details

15 Jul 2025
Blog Post

Outrage at the Death of a Tree

understand how societies develop. Earlier in May, on Mothers’ Day, my family and I made our annual pilgrimage from our home in Boston to Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum where there is always a beautiful display of lilacs in bloom. But it was... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Massport, Back on Course

you have cash, customers, and a product. The beauty of this turnaround is we have all three. It’s more of an organizational and cultural turnaround. I want to get people inside, as well as people outside, thinking about Massport as a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 Jan 2004
News

A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

at Harvard Business School. MBA in hand, he arrived at P&G at the age of 30 as an assistant brand manager for Joy dishwashing detergent. A variety of other assignments followed, such as helping turn around P&G's beauty products business... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops

with cement, pour the mixture into molds, and bake it into slabs. Italian polishing machines grind the slabs to custom widths and polish them to a glossy finish. The slabs emerge from the process looking much like granite countertops. But View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Prepare for Your Interview with Research

a structure of the corporate family, current news about the company and biographical information on key executives. For public companies, financial information from corporate reports is easily accessible. The beauty of OneSource is that... View Details

29 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement

the products they are trying to sell, be it apparel, cars, or beauty products. By conducting field research, I wanted to better grasp what has now become a key marketing instrument for many companies, and understand how and why they make... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

436,131 Per Capita GDP: 19,700 Euros Cyril Comte (MBA ’99): MARTINIQUE With its pristine beaches, lagoons, rain forests, and big volcano, Mont Pelée, Martinique is one of the most beautiful and varied islands in the Caribbean. It’s a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

26 Aug 2020
News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

beauty care routines, using fewer plastic items in our own beauty care routines or buying more from farmer's markets or local stores that don't use as much plastic. It's basically for us meant a shift in how... View Details

2013
Book

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World

By: Geoffrey Jones

This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent years economists, historians, and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty,... View Details

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17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

on a beautiful beach right in our neighborhood. I’m also very passionate about animals and I look forward to learning about the local animal rescue organizations in Rhode Island and how I can get involved. View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Lighten Up

Business and Pleasure: Kim and Coup Coupounas enjoy the scenic beauty of the Rocky Mountains just as much today as when they moved to Boulder almost a decade ago. (photo by Stephen Collector) The trail weaves back and forth in steep... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

21 May 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

questions and interactive drag-and-drop challenges that introduce key concepts and test learning. As students progress through the material, questions are interspersed with short video lectures and more interactive teaching elements. "The View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

26 May 2016
News

2016 Alumni Achievement Awards

Cofounder, The Bridgespan Group “I was not a natural-born engineer, and I remember wondering one day during my freshman year if I should drop out of college. It was a beautiful, blue-sky day, and I had my head down, thinking of how I was failing. Then I heard a View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Action Plan: Casting Call

quickly enough, and the fish will feel the steel and spit out the hook.” Does it tick multiple boxes? “I love to be outside. Fly-fishing gives me something interesting and absorbing to do in some really beautiful places.” Can you do it... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

05 Nov 2013
News

Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

sectors." Wilkins adds that this is perhaps an upside to the tragedies New Orleans has endured: "The beauty of Katrina—if there is a silver lining to Katrina—is it washed a lot of problems away. It forced the city to start over and do... View Details

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

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