Concentrations and Seminars

You will have the possibility to choose, in the very last mile of the Program, between 2 different elective concentrations: Go-To-Market in a Fashion and Design Global Landscape or Food, Experience & Hospitality.

 

It means having 5 courses, a dedicated study tour and 8 weeks full time field-project related to the chosen concentration. 

Concentration 1 - Go-To-Market in a Fashion and Design Global Landscape

The first concentration will let you deep dive into the Go to market in a fashion and design global landscape, by exploring the implications from a retailing, buying, communication, sustainability, and supply chain perspective.

The main goal is to put you in condition to successfully deal with the operative decisions that fashion and luxury companies need to take in order to make their own strategies effective and be ready to measure results through proper KPIs.

 

Concentration Courses

They allow participants to explore advanced themes and gain further details on previously acquired competences, getting ready to put them into practice.

 

  • Managing furniture design based companies
  • Branding the global fashion pipeline
  • Managing sustainability in fashion
  • Event design management & communication in fashion
  • Buying processes in fashion

 

Concentration 2 - Food, Experience & Hospitality

The second concentration will bring you into Food experience and hospitality management by deepening different business models and best practices linked to global procurement, food and hospitality sustainability, financial accounting and international growth.

The main objective is to teach you or show you how to effectively work in experience-based companies that compete in a global arena, reinforcing your analytical skills but also making you fully understand the peculiar traits of this business so strongly linked to Italian Excellence.

 

Concentration Courses

They allow participants to explore advanced themes and gain further details on previously acquired competences, getting ready to put them into practice.

  • Event design management & communication in hospitality
  • Food experience & restaurant design
  • Boosting personal skills to succeed in the hospitality business
  • Managing sustainability in the food and hospitality industries
  • Hospitality financial accounting management‌

 

Additionally, participants carried on many challenging and enriching projects presented to the top management of Cova Montenapoleone, Mandarin Oriental, Panino Giusto, Zonin, Sheraton Diana Majestic, and JHD Dunant Hotel at Castiglione delle Stiviere.

Seminars

Corporate Social Responsibility in Fashion & Luxury

This seminar provides an overview on the topic of CSR in Fashion & Luxury with a focus on responsible innovation. The analysis of different business practices aims at providing useful food for thought to consumers and managers that are willing to face the responsibility challenge. You will develop your analytical and creative capabilities, identifying strategic issues in responsible fashion.

 

Corporate Strategy

This seminar offers a hands-on yet rigorous approach to corporate strategy choices in the fashion and luxury market, providing you with a challenging theoretical framework and an array of business cases for discussion. The goal of the course is to examine in a systemic way corporate strategies and their impact on sustainability of value creation and capturing.

Tradition is the opposite of innovation. At the same time, innovation is supposed to be at the core of modernity in fashion. Yet, potential innovation in fashion is somewhat abundant, whereas the supply of tradition is definitely scarce. How has the luxury industry managed this apparent contradiction?