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- 25 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS
industry-focused club Consider taking an active role in a student-run club at HBS. I joined the Retail & Luxury Goods Club as a Director of Panels for the annual retail conference. This not only introduced me to countless new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
High Brow
Churchill, Laurence Olivier, and Oscar Wilde, not to mention a slew of British royals. “We figured that Truefitt & Hill was the luxury play in men’s grooming,” said Cartwright, whose Chicago-based company plans to open its first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter
It’s a memory shared by countless Swiss children: Caran d’Ache has been producing carefully crafted drawing and writing implements—pencils made of sustainably sourced incense cedar wood, pastels, paint, and luxury pens crafted from silver... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Joseph Blair
customer interviews.” In retrospect, Joe says, “I’m impressed by how quickly the Indian economy is developing. You could look down a city block, and on one end, there’s a run-down building with a thatched roof – but on other end, there’s a View Details
- 15 Nov 2019
- News
Diversity as a Driver of Performance
2006. The appointment made him one of only seven African American leaders at the helm of S&P 500 companies. In an interview with Black Enterprise, Zeitlin talks about how diversity and inclusion are critical to the strategy for Tapestry’s View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Sail Away
ROBB: A luxury home in every glamorous port. Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times Set to launch in 2013, the $1.1 billion Utopia will be a cruise ship with a difference: About half its cabins will be sold as private residences, ranging in price... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Retail and Luxury Goods Conference on April 3. Chadwick noted that while department stores used to be where shoppers went for everything from baby clothes to furniture to power tools, many stores have now limited their assortment and... View Details
- January 2009
- Case
VOSS Artesian Water from Norway
By: Youngme E. Moon, Gail J. McGovern, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Vincent Marie Dessain
VOSS is a Norwegian bottled water company that produces one of the world's purest drinking waters, sold at an ultra-premium price in a sleek cylindrical glass bottle of minimalist design. In the U.S. (the company's primary market), VOSS's high-end brand presence is... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product; Luxury; Food and Beverage Industry; Norway; United States
Moon, Youngme E., Gail J. McGovern, Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Vincent Marie Dessain. "VOSS Artesian Water from Norway." Harvard Business School Case 509-040, January 2009.
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
A World Without Borders
Many people associate the name &Beyond with luxury adventure travel. CEO Joss Kent (MBA 1997) thinks of it, first, as a conservation company. Tourism pays for the company’s habitat management, community development, and other conservation... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tomiwa Igun
I want to light up West Africa! Dark nights, paper fans, candlelight, kerosene lanterns, and aching backs from fetching well water — seems like medieval times! But these were the days of my youth growing up in Nigeria's most vibrant city, where constant electricity was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
Pacific, which plans to use modern agricultural technology and management to enable people living on remote Pacific islands to grow fresh vegetables and fish to replace unhealthful diets high in calories and low in nutrition. Second place was awarded to Jamela Oil, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
negotiated as part of last year’s collective bargaining agreement will usher in a new era of fiscal responsibility. “Those measures — luxury taxes, revenue sharing, and debt limits — have teeth,” Mariner notes, “and a large part of my job... View Details
- Profile
Juan Camargo
When the 2014 Cadillac ELR—the carmaker's new electric luxury vehicle—rolled onstage at the Detroit auto show earlier this year, Juan Camargo (MBA 2012) sat in the fourth row, beaming. And it wasn't just because, as assistant marketing... View Details
- Portrait Project
Eric Adamson
genocides, both old and new. Through mountains, where wild species – gorillas, insects, weeds – struggled against extinction from poaching, pesticides, diseases. Through cities, where luxury cars cruised past gaunt people in shanty towns,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Research Brief: Great Expectations
luxury that’s unrealistic for some. “What does it mean if people from higher socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to pursue their passion for work and also more likely to be given more opportunities? It means that we may be selecting... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sharon Liszanckie
Twist what HBS taught about aspirational marketing, NOT to sell luxury goods, but to illustrate "goods" aren't important, what you do for others is. Demonstrate that increasing shareholder return is not wholly synonymous with... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
millimeters, so I don’t know how they noticed this. However, this says a lot about who they are. They go into tiny details and make sure that everything is perfect.” Perfection and precision are at the heart of A. Lange & Söhne, which produces View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- News
Face Value
As a teenager in Houston, Texas, and one of the few Asian students in her high school, Vicky Tsai (MBA 2006) recognized that didn’t fit the accepted beauty standard. She was more drawn to the Western luxury skincare brands her mother sold... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
Karim Khoja (AMP 156, 1999) is CEO of Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading telecom provider, with nearly 6 million active subscribers. Before the company began operations in 2003, phone calls were a luxury that few citizens could afford; the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Books
from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. They describe new research revealing that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models and that commercials can enhance the enjoyment of watching... View Details