June 21, 2022 | Chris Hobson
Celebrating Successes Along the Way Yesterday we celebrated Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the official emancipation of enslaved Black people in the USA. So it seemed like an appropriate time to step back and celebrate the efforts of the teams at Rare Beauty Brands, Black Girl Ventures and Ulta in creating the most successful Beauty...
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April 25, 2022 | Chris Hobson
Last week (almost) the entire Rare Beauty Brands (RBB) team traveled to Arizona for our first annual RBB Summit. This was our way to address the WFx blues. As a company we’ve fully embraced the Work From Anywhere (WFx) transition over the past several years. A the same time, we feel that it is super-important...
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January 29, 2022 | Chris Hobson
Staying relevant in the always changing beauty industry took on added meaning in the context of the recent news that one-time darling startup brand Glossier has seen sales declines of ~20% for the past two years in a row, and just laid off a third of its workforce. 🙁 What happened to Glossier? Some of...
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December 4, 2021 | Chris Hobson
My last post took a swing at some of the oft-cited downsides of the new WFx experiment that corporate America is running in real-time. In contrast to what has quickly become popular wisdom, I think most businesses (including us at Rare Beauty Brands) have found that at least in the short term, productivity is up...
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December 1, 2021 | Chris Hobson
Full disclosure: Rare Beauty Brands has completely embraced the WFx (Work From Anywhere) shift that COVID-19 thrust upon many of us. Before the pandemic most of our team commuted daily to our offices just outside of Boston. Almost 2-years on, we still maintain a smaller version of that office, but it is there for mail...
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