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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
- 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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
to train their ML model and connect them to trained gig workers in developing markets. Halo 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... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
Companies also have to weigh the importance of protecting the primary versus the generative value of a product. The natural way to protect an idea is to patent it, but that mechanism is not always effective. Epilady invented a new way of shaving that involved wrapping... View Details
- 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
- 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 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
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
American economic system.” Castaldo's own path to the industry began in brand management for Clairol; in 1980, he was recruited by Burger King Corporation and left five years later as vice president of advertising. Explaining the leap from View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
In this business, you're only as good as the person peeling the potatoes," calls out Jerry Shafir (MBA '84) through a rising cloud of steam, as a hundred pounds of freshly chopped vegetables slide into a Jeep-sized cauldron of chicken stock. Clad in a starched white... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
they’re different,” says Lang, now a Catalyst Honorary Director since retiring as president and CEO. But why? “In Hebrew school, I was told that because I was a girl I could not be a leader. I think I became a feminist when I was about 12.” The 4 percent: “In 1971, I... View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Ben’s mission is to use fashion to design a better world by celebrating diversity, disrupting gender norms and empowering differences. Hair Penalties and Other Organizational Sins: Racism Disguised as... View Details