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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Squeeze Play
electronic components assembly line and recast as an expensive, high-end beauty product. That Tweezerman success has allowed LaMagna to bankroll other passions. He’s run for office (unsuccessfully) and dabbled in politics over the years... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
New Zealand Adventure
in the HBS Alumni Travel Program’s New Zealand Fiordland Discovery. The twelve-day trip originated in Auckland in late December and concluded in Queenstown on January 8. Our journey through New Zealand’s diverse landscapes showcased the region’s remarkable View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Best of Costa Rica
Playa Tambor, an exquisite beach on the Pacific Coast. We hiked, snorkled, rode horses, and enjoyed the beauty of this diverse land. Our trip left us with many fond memories, the inspiration of a new land, and insight into a different way... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
Levy: Ingredients for beauty from an unlikely source. Photo courtesy Kerty Levy A company that manufactures the nutritional ingredients used in animal feed doesn’t seem like the most likely incubator for a View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Tata Open for Business
Jr. (MBA 1956) led Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975), chairman of India's Tata Sons Ltd., out of Kresge Hall toward Storrow Drive, Light and Spangler gestured out to the space in front of them. This spot—with its beautiful views of Cambridge and... View Details
- 20 Mar 2017
- News
Rent The Runway Cofounder Fleiss Bows out as Company Preps for IPO
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Giving Tree
was in debt. It’s an inspiration, too, because I admire anyone who finds it in themselves to give back to others. That’s the most beautiful gift in the world.” View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
for cosmetics needed to be more customer focused, so in 1999 she launched Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products. Perhaps the most obvious evidence that Beck’s thoughtful strategy and hard work have disrupted the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Popular Series Returns
For the fourth year, HBS Club members can dial in to hear a faculty member speak on a topic of current interest, followed by a Q&A session. The Virtual Learning Series resumes September 15 with a talk on social networking by Associate Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski;... View Details
- 21 Feb 2020
- News
Style for Everyone
Nadia Boujarwah and Lydia Gilbert (both MBA 2013) cofounded Dia & Co right out of HBS, producing fashion and online services for plus-size women. In this interview, they talk about the inspiration for the idea and the need it serves. “Dia & Co derives from Dia, which... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
mill stores were merely a fad. Instead, he bet on supermarket-style stores, with self-service, offering clothing, toys, beauty supplies and housewares. That idea became the basis for the family’s chain of Zayre discount stores, introduced... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
would normally in a time of drought; the coauthors estimate that Colombia’s firms could lower energy prices from 6 to 10 percent by increasing their non-hydro capacity. “The beauty of the mix of technologies is that firms can internalize... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
respective ventures. Assaf is co-founder and CEO of the CBD-infused beauty brand The Uplifters’ Prima, which raised $9.2 million in a seed-plus funding round to support its retail expansion, according to coverage in the Los Angeles... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
Earning Potential
have different lines. We have a beautiful textile line, a jewelry line, and also a bedding line. The idea behind that is that the women will sell first, let's say, a jean to her friend. And then they will sell a bedding product to her... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Three Decades of Change and Counting
I was taken aback by how beautiful the campus was. Then, once I started meeting other SVMP participants, I realized pretty quickly that the quality of the people was on par with the quality of my surroundings. There is an incredible... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Read This and Write
short story can be written in an afternoon or a weekend. We all have stories to tell, and it is a thing of beauty to share your mind with the world.” For this year’s competition (deadline June 30), Koruth welcomes submissions at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Origin Story: Mary Chen (MBA 2026)
opportunity to really pressure-test some hypotheses of what I want to do and build confidence around it.” More than skin deep: Chen placed first in 2015’s Miss Chinese Beauty Pageant in New York and was first runner-up at the... View Details
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. “I just really lacked direction,” says Trejo. That’s when he joined ASU’s Hispanic Students Business Association... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO
In a New York Times piece that asks “How to Become a C.E.O.?”, Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA 1998) is highlighted as an example of the entrepreneurial path one can take to the chief executive position. Malcolm Beck, the founder and CEO of View Details