Beauty - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515095-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-097 Philips Healthcare Latin America On a beautiful sunny afternoon in October 2013, Daniel Mazon (GMP 15), decided to take some time out of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

inspire immediate excitement. Then Jacobson and his crew showed him another example, this time under a microscope, in which the pixels migrated over an electrode to spell out MIT. “You could see the individual particles moving around,” Wilcox recalls. “It was View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

United States around 1900, and the initial "wow" factor that visitors experience when entering these buildings is often a partial reaction to the scope and beauty of their architecture. There is nothing like walking into the Field Museum... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

September–October 2022
Article

Should Your Company Sell on Amazon?: Reach Comes at a Price

By: Ayelet Israeli, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Matt Higgins and Sabir Semerkant

Selling on Amazon allows brands to reach millions of consumers—but that exposure comes with costs. They include smaller margins, more competition, the risk of commoditization, and less knowledge about customers. In this article, the authors present a scorecard to... View Details

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20 Jul 2022
News

Wired to be Inspired

economic model and the HR model and getting it all working. But he said leaders need to also be poets. Now, what is a poet? A poet is somebody who creates a vision, a beautiful view of what the world could be, and tries to get everyone... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

past five years, I have uncovered hundreds of online advertising scams defrauding thousands of users—not to mention all the web's top merchants. This chapter summarizes some of what I've found—and what users and advertisers can do to protect themselves. (Forthcoming in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

Companies also are becoming more aware of the need to capture what data they can through first-party cookies, by creating value through content. He offers the example of the website Glossier, whose strategy is focused on serving its audience useful View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This is the beauty of Watson, which... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

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By: Geoffrey G. Jones

I currently teach the history of global entrepreneurship over the last 200 years. The 28-session course called Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism has become one of the most popular second year electives in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. The cases,... View Details

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

and Noble in books, Best Buy in electronics—offer similar rewards. Boots, the UK-based pharmacy and beauty supply retailer, offers a substantial reward of 4 percent, but that rate is more exception than rule. This type of reward is... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

that big is beautiful and will result in lower costs. Very poor idea, but in a way I'm the most sympathetic to this group. Suddenly human resource managers are asked to look into the bowels of this $2 trillion system and figure out how to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

12 May 2022
News

Onboarding

women total on Fortune 500 boards. And diversity wasn’t particularly thought to be an important or desirable thing, even for a company whose business was focused on women. I mean, a good example would be Avon, which sold beauty products... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Next Normal

people in real life and laughing with them. The virtual world is here to stay, but nothing replaces the beauty of communal physical spaces.” —Aishetu Fatima Dozie (MBA 2002) “I’ve learned that it’s doable and productive but doesn’t feel... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

consumers and shopping habits in the next few years. Real Estate, a Love Story: Wisdom, Honor, and Beauty in the Toughest Business in the World By Joshua Benaim (MBA 2006) Disruption Books With this book, a blend of memoir and strategy,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Dec 2024
News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

and the challenges that always come up and develop it. But if you had to paint a beautiful success story for where the community college, college completion programs could be with the workplace, what would be that world? Moret: I believe... View Details

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

of the market, it needs to successfully fight them. First, some developers see software as scientific knowledge to be shared "like the sharing of recipes among cooks." In fact, some describe software developers more like artists seeking fun, challenge, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

only I could think of a way to really butter them up. At the end of the tunnel I see that everyone's lights are on. It's 9:00 a.m.! Why are their lights on? And then I drive out into what was just a beautiful fall day, and it's pouring.... View Details

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