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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
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
I just smile the same smile. The circle of life does not confront you when you get your first grey hair or when your eyesight weakens. It confronts you when the generations before you hand over the mantle of elder as they smile on from... View Details
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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
- 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
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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
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
the hair down — things that business frowns upon. After the workweek ends on Friday, music is what you jack up on your car stereo as you head over to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox humble those guys in pinstripes. Music and sports are... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
Consumers delight in using smartphones to record their experiences and surroundings, but for businesses, such devices present tricky challenges. Suppose a customer encounters a hair in her food, a spill in an aisle, or a rude clerk.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
Century.” Okay, that might be a bit of local television hyperbole, but it was amazing to see the grainy video, spartan sets, rudimentary weather graphics, weathermen with long hair and sideburns (I am sure we did not look that dorky at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
admire Madam C.J. Walker, an African American woman who became a millionaire by creating and marketing hair products that she couldn’t find for herself.” On corruption: “When you read the press on Nigeria you assume that everybody is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
musicals and the idea that one day I’d live in a city.” Teaching moment: “One simple word: rest. Our work is so hard, and it’s so urgent. This job has helped me realize how the beautiful gift of rest provides the clarity and fuel to get up and do it all over again.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
"Economists are puzzle solvers..." An interview with Robert Merton At a press conference at the Business School a few hours after the announcement, Merton told reporters, "I still can't believe it's really happened." Looking trim and dapper, his View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
brochures for the first time and started applying for schools with chemical engineering programs. I ultimately went to Michigan State University. I landed an internship with Procter and Gamble and loved everything about my job. I worked in a View Details
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman
had seized business opportunities despite formidable odds. They included the first African-American millionaire, Celeste Walker, a child of slaves who founded a hair care empire that targeted other African-American women; Coco Chanel, who... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
Madame C. J. Walker is an example of an entrepreneur who took advantage of industrial change, Koehn said. Walker, a creator of hair care products, built a brand and brought it to market. But she needed the creation of the railroad and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
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Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library
President of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. from 1995 to 2000 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 1996 to 2003. Early corporate filings for Goodyear are part of Baker's corporate reports collection . Farouk Shami founded Farouk Systems, Inc., a View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
The popular press focuses on the colorful: the globally known swamis; the ash covered monks; the business people and penniless people together in the Ganga; the elephants and orange robes and crazy hair and the blend of true believers and... View Details
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Black History Month | Baker Library
Corporate Reports & Filings for Researchers learning module. The Johnson Products Company was “ the first predominantly black‐operated and black‐owned company to be listed on a major stock exchange. ” They went public in 1971 and primarily sold Black View Details
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
Braid Yinka Ogunbiyi (MBA 2023) We reduce braiding time from hours to minutes, empowering Black salon owners to double or triple their business, and addressing the 8 billion hours spent braiding hair each year. Pathways Vasilis Mantzios... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
a Technology Company or a Beauty Company? Jon Flint came up with the idea of a science-based beauty company while talking with his hairdresser about the problems with typical hair and skin care products. Together with a small team that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
companies touted cleanliness as good for health and success, but also for beauty. Hair washing, long unfashionable, was also a 20th-century phenomenon. This 1905 German advertisement promotes one of the first shampoos. Image Courtesy... View Details