In the beauty industry especially, the trend has been towards sustainability and CSR policies triggered by consumers. A brief history by Ashok Som, Professor of Strategy and Management at ESSEC Business School and Co-Director of the ESSEC-Bocconi EMiLUX program.
Laurent Bourgeon, Academic Director of the Operational Management and International Operational Management programs at ESSEC Business School, and author of the book Construire avec pertinence la stratégie pour votre PME (Build an Effective Strategy for your SME, Ellipses, 2016), urges small-to-medium enterprises to develop a strategy and shares key insights into how to do it effectively.
Emerging luxury brands may feel the pressure to be snapped up by conglomerates in order to succeed abroad. But Ashok Som, Co-Director of ESSEC-Bocconi EMiLux program, Chair of the Management Department at ESSEC Business School, and luxury products and services expert, proposes another way – go-it-alone – with four strategies to ensure success.