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- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
environments and watching our classmates sip and twirl beautiful cocktails or elegant wines. And we were standing there with a can of La Croix or a Diet Coke and feeling a little bit childish and not part of the experience.” The two got... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
but I am in a position to contribute, and I do. The biggest gift I ever made, $25 million, was to the University of Wisconsin to build a new sports facility. It made sense because I'm a Wisconsin senator, a sports fan, and a professional team owner. It is a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
to its—and Morocco’s—benefit. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-049 Nykaa.com: A Passion for Beauty Being an entrepreneur was a childhood dream for Falguni Nayar. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
that are easier to specify: computer software (offline-to-online ratio $0.99); health and beauty products ($0.93); music/video products ($0.83); and books ($0.68). 3 Ample evidence suggests that current B2C sites are unable to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
no.” Fast money: “My husband, Barry, and I raised a million dollars in two weeks to start Bluemercury in 1999. The initial idea was to build an e-commerce company, but then we changed course and focused on freestanding beauty stores where... View Details
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Working at Harvard Business School | Employment
every year, consistently expanding HBS’s reach. Culture The Harvard Business School (HBS) community is truly unique: the campus is a workplace that is both beautiful and varied. The faculty and staff are from all over the world and the... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
pharmacy: a pharmaceutical company selling prescription drugs, and a consumer products company selling personal care products such as shampoo and beauty aids. A consumer filling a medical prescription or purchasing face cream would... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
consequences. The project I am currently working on examines the globalization of the world personal care or beauty industry over the last fifty years. It is concerned with explaining how an industry fragmented on national lines has come... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Jones researches the history and impact of global firms. In recent years he has prublished extensively on the ecological and social responsibility of business leaders. He has a strong interest in the business history of emerging markets. He founded and... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Globalization; Government and Politics; History; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; Oceania
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
beauty of elegant concepts and could perceive that there could be new relationships among phenomena, a process we call invention.” (6) Fittingly, Morse’s name appears on numerous sole and joint patents with Land and other Polaroid... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
event can be found here.) "I knew a lot of people who died," Beyaz said. "My cousin and her husband, two beautiful people who left behind two wonderful kids; and also classmates, friends. My childhood home collapsed." Beyaz added that his... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
(formerly known as the Crittenton Women’s Union), a Boston-based nonprofit that helps people move out of poverty and also licenses its coaching tools to other organizations across the country. “It was a challenging hike, and we got really sick one day, but it was... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
of that, in French! Flying fish are amazing to see, though I wore a helmet with a clear Lexan visor to protect myself: They glide at 25 knots, so you don’t want to get hit in the eye. In the Southern Ocean, the albatross are beautiful... View Details
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
their own, everything that is prestigious and beautiful. I cannot but repeat that beauty is our business.” In this photograph, a boy named Francis pretends to lean against a painted image of a wooden entertainment center filled with... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
first stabilized." Iyer explained more in an interview. Martha Lagace: What sparked your interest in Nepal? Lakshmi Iyer: I was in Nepal before the conflict started. It is a beautiful country and it's a real pity they have descended... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
does Charles Darwin, who wrote that cooperative social behavior was a trait of survival and prosperity. Pearlstein ends with a beautiful quote from Robert Kennedy from 1968, that the GNP statistic our country so relies on captures... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
would become very homebound. So we turned our Plan B into a big adventure, choosing to sail around the world as a family while Lily was still portable,” he says. “In 2013, we spent nine months sailing the beautiful islands of the South... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent... View Details