Body Image - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2019 (Revised June 2021)
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Dove and Real Beauty: Building a Brand with Purpose

By: Mark R. Kramer, Myriam Sidibe and Gunjan Veda

Unilever subsidiary Dove soap became a "brand with a purpose" and created shared value when the company decided to launch a Campaign for Real Beauty to combat the artificial media-driven stereotype of female beauty that causes appearance anxiety in women and girls... View Details

Keywords: Stereotype; Body Image; Female; Self-Esteem; Brands and Branding; Mission and Purpose; Advertising Campaigns; Gender; Resource Allocation

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Purchase

20 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Creating a Positive Professional Image

she says. "It is only wise to add your voice in framing others' theories about who you are and what you can accomplish." There are plenty of books telling you how to "dress for success" and control your body language.... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

employee is portrayed as vital contributor to the whole that constituted the corporate family. Collectively, the photographs represent a commanding body of work intended to convey the image of U.S. Steel as... View Details

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Blasting bodies to a base - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next Blasting bodies to a base ca. 1933 Packard Motor Company Photographer unknown Blasting bodies to a... View Details

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Polishing Chrysler bodies similar to shining shoes - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Production Chapter Introduction Chapter Images The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 next Polishing Chrysler bodies similar to shining shoes ca. 1937 Chrysler Corporation Photographer... View Details

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Tuli Mekondjo Otwa umbata oudjuu wetu, momalutu, no momitima detu/ Within our bodies and our hearts, we carry our burdens 2023 | About

Tuli Mekondjo Otwa umbata oudjuu wetu, momalutu, no momitima detu/ Within our bodies and our hearts, we carry our burdens , 2023 Tuli Mekondjo (Namibian, born 1982), Otwa umbata oudjuu wetu, momalutu, no momitima detu/ Within our View Details

23 Feb 2016
News

The Best First Impression

19 Feb 2020
Video

Public Image: The U.S. Steel Photography Exhibit at Baker Library

21 Nov 2023
Op-Ed

The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?

In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

what the human body needs physically and mentally to respond to these challenges. Think of these as your new toolkit for high performance in a business world turned upside down. Let’s start with some executives’ comments from the survey,... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

28 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 28

fashion company competing in a variety of unconventional ways, many "experience economy" related. Moods fronts their brand with the "boy band" images of its three founders and designs eccentric features into their... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?

they show passion through higher quality of work and in conveying positive emotions, and less frequently through body language and voice, immersion, social interactions, and quantity of work. The results of the study indicate that... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the Corporate Image Gary Works Photograph Album Resources Research Links Films & TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion... View Details

09 Feb 2024
HBS Case

Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive

you’re also losing muscle. You do not want to lose muscle. They’re not a cure. They work on the brain. They suppress the appetite. But 10 years later, what will happen to the brain and other body parts? They can’t predict that today.... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Health; Pharmaceutical

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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

initial foundation of this body of work. This large body of work includes numerous theoretical and empirical papers on the concept of clusters and their impact on economic performance. He also created the... View Details

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Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

linkages or externalities across industries that give rise to clusters. Data on the composition, by cluster, of state, regional, and metropolitan economies in the U.S. has been collected and analyzed for each year from 1998 through to the most recent government... View Details

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

different beauty ideals. L'Oréal, for example, primarily sold French brands before the 1990s. During that decade it purchased American brands such as Maybelline, Redken, and Kiehl's and globalized them. And over the last decade it has acquired Shu Uemura in Japan,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

01 Mar 2024
News

Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School