The Investor's Shelf — one person
Estée Lauder
Founder of Estée Lauder Companies, 1946; built prestige cosmetics as a department-store category.
3 biographies about them
Biographies about them 3
There is only one independent biography; her own Estée: A Success Story belongs in the author files.
Geoffrey Jones · 2010 · Harvard business historian; sets her brand-building against the whole industry.
Lee Israel · 1985 · Unauthorised; Lauder rushed out her own memoir to pre-empt it.
Leonard A. Lauder · 2020 · Insider memoir by her son, who scaled the company she founded.