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December 2011
Case

Roger Caracappa: Package Deals for the Estée Lauder Companies

By: James K. Sebenius

Roger Caracappa must negotiate a cost-saving, innovative proposal from a potential French supplier that could displace the otherwise satisfactory, long-time incumbent supplier. Shortly after being promoted to executive vice president of the Estée Lauder Companies with... View Details

Keywords: Operations; Supply Chain Management; Change; Innovation and Invention; Cost vs Benefits; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

September 2011
Module Note

Orientation to Leadership Intelligence Days, 2011

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Anthony J. Mayo

Julie Bornstein, senior vice president of Sephora Direct, is seeking to double her budget for social media and other digital marketing initiatives for 2011. A number of digital efforts implemented in the past two years seem to be bearing fruit and there is a desire to... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Borrowing and Debt; Investment Return; Resource Allocation; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Online Technology; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

April 2011
Teaching Note

Leasing Decision at Magnet Beauty Products, Inc. (TN)

By: Krishna G. Palepu and George Serafeim

Teaching Note for 111039. View Details

Keywords: Leasing; Financial Statements; Accounting; Standards; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

March 2011 (Revised February 2012)
Supplement

Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (E)

By: David F. Hawkins

Spanish parent company must decide on the Euro/BsF exchange rate to translate its Venezuelan subsidiary's financial statements into Euros. View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Business Subsidiaries; Decision Choices and Conditions; Currency Exchange Rate; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain; Venezuela

August 2010 (Revised November 2010)
Supplement

Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (C)

By: David F. Hawkins

The third case in the Cosmeticos de Espana case series. What should management's accounting response be to a further devaluation of the Bolivar? View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain; Venezuela

August 2010 (Revised October 2014)
Case

Herborist

By: John Deighton, Leora Kornfeld, Yanqun He and Qingyun Jiang

Global brands such as L'Oreal and Oil of Olay dominate China's skin care market. A Chinese domestic brand, after some success in partnership with Sephora in Europe, aspires to challenge the French and U.S. brands' hold on the China market. It must decide how to segment... View Details

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Product Marketing; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Competitive Strategy; Segmentation; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; China

July 2009
Teaching Note

Bernd Beetz: Creating the New Coty (TN)

By: Geoffrey G. Jones

Teaching Note for [808133]. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Brands and Branding; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Business Subsidiaries; Product Launch; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Russia

May 2009
Case

Who is the Fairest of Them All? Choosing a Leader at Deronde International

By: Nitin Nohria and Martha Spaulding

Alain Deronde, the CEO of a French personal care company, has to choose a successor to head global product development from a diverse set of candidates with different backgrounds, strengths, and weaknesses. The candidates include Elise Bernier, Vice President of... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Management Succession; Diversity; Management Teams; Product Development; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; France

March 1990 (Revised March 1992)
Supplement

Mary Kay Cosmetics: Sales Force Incentives (B)

By: Robert L. Simons

Details the changes made to the VIP automobile plan. View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Salesforce Management; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

July 2002 (Revised March 2003)
Case

Avon.com (A)

Avon has always sold its products through a large independent direct-selling organization. However, it is now considering whether it should sell directly to the consumer. The company's independent representatives number 500,000 in the United States alone. Yet, there... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Salesforce Management; Marketing Channels; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

October 2000 (Revised August 2001)
Case

Avon Products (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers

Presents the results of the decision taken in the (A) case. Describes the subsequent challenges faced by Avon Products in promulgating its globalization worldwide. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Gender; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

January 1989 (Revised February 1989)
Case

Bella Beauty Products, Inc. (G)

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

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October 1988 (Revised February 1990)
Case

Bella Beauty Products, Inc. (F)

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

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29 Apr 2015
Blog Post

2+2: Challenging Conceptions of Business

seven semesters and pursue my core passion to improve cosmetic safety. Where did you work before coming to HBS?I spent the two years before HBS working for S.W. Basics, a truly all-natural skincare company based in Brooklyn that... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)

incidents, such as the suggestion by a colleague that she focus on the cosmetics industry when she became an equity analyst. Nevertheless, Havens-Hasty hurdled over Wall Street's gender chasm to become one of the most influential women in... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Dec 2002
News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

Angela Serino, manager of corporate responsibility for Natura, a Brazilian cosmetics company, and Maria de Graça Fernandes Branco, principal of Matilde Elementary and High School. The pair are subjects of a case produced by the SEKN that... View Details

January 2023 (Revised February 2024)
Teaching Note

Perfect Diary (完美日记)

By: Shunyuan Zhang and Sunil Gupta

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-030. View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Marketing; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; China

2013
Chapter

The Global and the Local in the Beauty Industry: A Historical Perspective

This chapter explores the impact of the global beauty industry on beauty ideals. It shows that as the industry internationalized from the late nineteenth century, there was a homogenization of beauty ideals and practices around the world. Western and white beauty... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Globalization; History; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America

October 2011 (Revised November 2014)
Teaching Note

Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F)

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain

2011
Book

Beauty Imagined. A History of the Global Beauty Industry

Keywords: Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

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