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Tara Hagan
Married by 20 Long hair Nice job, maybe a receptionist In high school, I wrote myself a letter not to be opened for five years. It ended with the above list of dreams for future Tara. When I rediscovered the letter, the person who wrote... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ebony Cambridge
I want to cook callaloo and crab every Sunday just like women in Trinidad did when it was all they had, and not a local delicacy. I want to wake up to the warm, wet sensation of my husband kissing the tip of my nose and feel the tenderness of total acceptance. I want... View Details
- Portrait Project
Leslie Feinzaig
generously. At the end of each day, instead of counting all my money, I count white hairs and wrinkles. Today I have none, but one day they will be testaments of a life well-lived. One chilly night not long ago, I found a boy begging in... 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
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Four Weeks on the Road with MBAs Across America
Social Club Grooming Company, not only brings people together across racial lines, but also brings people together to revitalize Detroit. Instead of throwing away hair trimmings, Sebastian works with Green Garage, the green business... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
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
- Profile
Arum Kang
contrary to her expectations, a line of children's hair accessories failed to post the sales numbers she had anticipated. "When I got to the floor," Arum says, "I saw that my product was crowded among too many competing... 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
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forum
Feedback The “Assets” department in our March issue featured some of Professor Joe Fuller’s flying pigs and a call to share what’s in your office. Keep Pulling “My time at HBS overlapped with Professor Fuller, who graduated from HBS the year before I did. While he was... View Details