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Zihan Lin
Medical. In collaboration with three engineering colleagues and a cosmetic surgeon, Zi designed a superior, post-surgery "splint" to improve rhinoplasty recoveries and reduce revision rates. Heal Medical has already moved beyond...
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- 16 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Amy S. Langer
organization's top spot, she transformed NABCO over the next decade. Under her leadership, NABCO has used an innovative program of corporate partnerships in cause-related marketing campaigns, linking breast cancer awareness to everything from View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
virtually banding together to replace nearly all aspects of a transaction. Take buying cosmetics. It used to be customers went to a cosmetics store such as Sephora to sample products, purchase them, and then return to replenish after...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
far more on fragrances and skin care than Americans, who in turn spend far more on color cosmetics than Europeans. The Asia-Pacific region is a modest market for fragrance, accounting for only 6 percent of the world fragrance market, but...
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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...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
former U.S. naval officer, Mendell was a Baker Scholar at HBS. He and his wife, Andrea, have two children. Linda S. Oubré (MBA '84), a native of Los Angeles, is director and division president of BriteSmile, Inc., a specialty retailer focusing on View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
Jones Miller (MBA 2014), cofounder, Mented Cosmetics Organize Tomorrow Today: 8 Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life by Jason Selk and Tom Bartow, with Matthew Rudy “Let’s face it: in this modern age, we...
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April White
- 2023
- Working Paper
Deep Responsibility and Irresponsibility in the Beauty Industry
By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper employs the concept of deep responsibility to assess the social responsibility of the beauty industry over time. It shows that many of today’s problems with the industry have deep historical roots. Products have carried too many health hazards....
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Corporate Accountability;
Ethics;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Jones, Geoffrey. "Deep Responsibility and Irresponsibility in the Beauty Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-058, March 2023.
- January 2012
- Supplement
Roger Caracappa: Package Deals for the Estée Lauder Companies (Video)
Sebenius, James K. "Roger Caracappa: Package Deals for the Estée Lauder Companies (Video)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 912-701, January 2012.
- November 2010 (Revised July 2011)
- Supplement
Oriflame S.A. (B)
By: David F. Hawkins and Karol Misztal
Exercise for recording derivative hedging transactions, accompanied by a technical note on IFRS derivative accounting.
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Financial Reporting;
Financial Statements;
International Accounting;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Risk Management;
Standards;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Hawkins, David F., and Karol Misztal. "Oriflame S.A. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-051, November 2010. (Revised July 2011.)
- October 2006 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
The ColorMatch Hair Color System
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Matthew Beecher
Describes the challenge of finding the right market for a product.
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- March 2006 (Revised October 2006)
- Teaching Note
L'Oreal and the Globalization of American Beauty (TN)
Teaching Note to 805086.
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Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
- October 2005 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
MD Beauty, Inc.
By: William A. Sahlman and Elizabeth Kind
Describes some of the issues confronting the entrepreneurial team responsible for creating a highly successful natural beauty and skin care company. They are considering selling all or some portion of the company's stock.
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Entrepreneurship;
Stocks;
Financial Strategy;
Management Teams;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Elizabeth Kind. "MD Beauty, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 806-045, October 2005. (Revised July 2009.)
- August 1996
- Case
ThermoLase
By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
John Hansen, CEO of ThermoLase, must develop a plan of action to exploit the company's new development-stage revolutionary hair removal technology with negligible revenues and a $500 million market capitalization. This nascent public Thermo Electron spin out company...
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Business or Company Management;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Business Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Plan;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Andrew S. Janower. "ThermoLase." Harvard Business School Case 897-002, August 1996.
- September 1988
- Supplement
Bella Beauty Products, Inc. (E)
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Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Shapiro, Benson P. "Bella Beauty Products, Inc. (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 589-033, September 1988.
- July 1977 (Revised February 1978)
- Case
Rose Milk
Greyser, Stephen A. "Rose Milk." Harvard Business School Case 578-024, July 1977. (Revised February 1978.)
- 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...
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Linda Goodspeed
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
hundreds of women, offering them free makeovers, demonstrating her products, and providing a sense of the elegance and self-definition that her cosmetics offered customers. As the brand and company grew, these qualities were translated...
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by Martha Lagace
- 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...
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