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Hong Kong: Gateway to Asia

By Michael Battista Industry Coordinator to the Global Fashion Management Program Hong Kong is a city that bustles with over 7 million people. Skyscrapers that are achieved with bamboo scaffolding rise from the mountainous terrain of a bay overlooking the South China Sea. Container ships filled with goods destined for the world’s ports dot the horizon. […]

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Teaming in the Global Workplace

By Bob Greene, MS Leadership and Team Development Coach and Consultant Students in the Graduate Fashion Management (GFM) program are developing as leaders who can innovate successfully in the ever-changing global fashion industry. Today’s and tomorrow’s leaders need to be successful not only when problems are routine or primarily technical, but in uncharted territory, where […]

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A Global Learning Laboratory

By Bob Greene, MS Leadership and Team Development Coach and Consultant I’ve had the pleasure for the past several years of facilitating a workshop on building teams for the Graduate Fashion Management (GFM) program during the New York seminar hosted by Fashion Institute of Technology. Students and faculty from schools based in New York, Paris, […]

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The New Rules of Retail Engagement: How to Reach Conscious Consumers

By Brooke Blashill (Class of 2015) Senior Vice President, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, and Director of The Boutique @ Ogilvy For brands to be successful in the future, they need to align value with “values.” That was the resounding sentiment at last month’s major trend conferences: Copenhagen Fashion Summit, the preeminent global forum for sustainable […]

GFM Joins Cardozo Law Students for Conversation with John Idol, CEO Michael Kors, and Lee Sporn, Kors General Counsel

On February 17, Global Fashion Management students attended a fundraising event for Cardozo School of Law’s newly launched Fashion, Arts, Media and Entertainment Law Center (FAME) which was created to train law students for jobs in New York City’s creative industries. Cardozo’s collaboration with Global Fashion Management to provide legal council to GFM’s “clients” for […]