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- Portrait Project
Julie Ann Haldeman
“Call – good news and bad news.” [SMS from Mom; 4:56 p.m.] “Bad news: I have breast cancer,” my mom states when I call back. “Good news: My hair will finally evolve past the ‘80s anchorwoman hairdo.” I close my eyes and inhale deeply,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Grace Hou
powerful weapon than corporeal force. A community of supporters — from the nurse stroking my hair on the operating table, to the neighbors who sent me a lifetime's supply of lollipop trees, to the physical therapist who pushed me to walk... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs take their business acumen on the road
and hit the road this summer. Alaoui recalls the work MBAxAmerica did for Sebastian Jackson, owner of the Detroit barbershop Social Club Grooming Co. Jackson wanted to donate hair shavings to accelerate compost for urban renewal projects.... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- News
New Charter School CEO Debuts Colorful Changes
Photo via the Chicago Sun-Times / provided by Noble Photo via the Chicago Sun-Times / provided by Noble Constance Jones (MBA 2008) understands the importance of demonstrating change: As detailed in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Noble Network CEO arrived to school last... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alyssa Wilson
be in my eulogy? Last year I emptied my childhood home, boxing my dad’s sailing trophies and business recognitions plus my brother’s attendance certificates and ski ribbons. Mementos of accomplishments long forgotten, sitting on dusty shelves. But I’ll never forget the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
houses—Morse noted that Estée Lauder has 400 chemists—selling products to customers who come in for services help it compete. Daniel Langer, executive director of marketing for hair products maker Bumble and Bumble, said that while many... View Details
- Portrait Project
Erica Hunt
Is it possible to be so self-confident, yet so self-conscious at the same time? Maybe... But I'm looking forward to the day when I can stand in the pouring rain...get my hair wet...and like it! I'm going to laugh out LOUD, in public, and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kathy Yuh
“So, where are you from?” is my most dreaded question. Given how many times I’ve been asked this – at hair salons making small talk, on first dates breaking awkward silence, at HBS Admit Weekend exchanging practiced intros – I should have... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kate Lewis
about powerful women doing important things, recounting stories of Jean Kirkpatrick and Madeleine Albright as NPR played in the background. Our routine changed a bit when Mom got sick. Getting out of bed was a challenge in itself, and a wig of someone else’s View Details
- Portrait Project
Andrew Velo-Arias
boundless. When I wanted to play Danny Zuko in our third-grade rendition of Grease, she used two bottles of hair spray to help me look the part. When I wanted to become a baseball star, she used a flashlight so my dad and I could play... View Details
- Portrait Project
Maliha Khan
How can you feel connected to someone you’ve never met? A portrait hangs in my grandfather’s house in Karachi, Pakistan. It is of a woman, not conventionally beautiful. Her nose is too broad and her lips too thick, her hair unfashionably... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alyza Keshavjee
An explosion is followed by foreign army tanks, men pushing, women yelling, and children screaming. I turn the other way and she runs to me, arms widespread, green eyes illuminated, light brown hair flowing, smiling ear to ear.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Last Look
together, or what have you. I remember one zealot even floating down the river lashed to a cross. The river wasn’t so clean in those days. I estimate from the hair that this is the late 1970s. I still have in my possession a T-shirt from... View Details
- Portrait Project
Minal Mehta
I'll let you in on a secret: I often pretend I'm a Bollywood star. You may see me walking down the halls of Aldrich to my next class. Little do you know that I'm actually strutting down a runway in a music video; wind in my hair and... View Details
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Gianpiero Petriglieri , INSEAD Authenticity in Midair Laura Morgan Roberts , Antioch University Moments of Truth? Authentic Encounters with Realistic Identities Panel: Performance & Appearance Tina Opie , Babson College Hair Penalties and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Feedback
Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. —Richard Wailes (MBA 1977) via alumni.hbs.edu Fred looks exactly the same as when we were in school—the hair may be a different shade, but then, he still has it. I saw him at a Prairie Home Companion show in... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
taha ajmi/Unsplash Until the last year or so, the term "recency bias" was rarely a topic of cocktail conversation—unless it was a gathering of behavioral scientists letting their hair down. But then a news item surfaced about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Ann Chao
hair moisturizers weren’t selling well,” she says. “In the beginning, we listened to the company and its distributors who believed the product just wouldn’t work. But HBS had given us the resources to challenge the client.” By conducting... View Details
- Profile
Alex Nelson
During the long, cold winters in her home state of Minnesota, Alex Nelson daydreamed of "a better car heater that would warm up immediately, like a hair dryer." Although she never built that heater, the daydream symbolized her... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
Now that you know better, you got to do better. Right? And so we have a responsibility to continue to evolve. And so I can tell you that in my now 38 years of life, I’ve never dyed my hair any color in the crayon box. It just hasn’t... View Details