The Life of Luxury & How to Sell It
Luxury is its own market, but who shops there? Who sells there? What's the best strategy? Researchers at Harvard Business School have examined consumerism at the top of the curve - from high fashion and luxury watches to prestige cars and top-end experiences - to produce a series of 12 insight papers...
To sell luxury, should it still be called luxury?
While the luxury sector is experiencing unprecedented worldwide success, it is also facing an existential crisis, as Professors Jean-Noël Kapferer and Anne Michaut explain...
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