For Design Nation 2021's third podcast, Kathy Li speaks to Katy Olson, Editor of AD Pro, which is a members-only community for design industry professionals and includes over 100 years of searchable Architectural Digest archives. In this podcast, Katy shares more about her passion for the history of design, the importance of events in the design community, and how AD Pro is using education to help emerging designers and small businesses enter the industry.
Read MoreSummer Journalism Fellow Joe Strong speaks to Elisa Jagerson, CEO Emeritus of FutureBrand Speck, the design consultancy credited with driving major product and service innovations within Google, Apple, and more. Jagerson chats about her pioneering role in redefining intelligent design to grow Speck from a boutique design and engineering firm into an innovation leader. She also shares her passion for service, legal reform, and gender/racial justice.
Read MoreThe global pandemic is squeezing the living space out of many industries, including the traditional fashion industry. However, to some Internet-based fields such as esports, the pandemic has produced more opportunity. COVID-19 has also catalyzed more cross-border cooperation: traditional industries need new blood to twist the adverse situation, while emerging industries need legacy icons or brands to help them unlock broader markets. Hence, the marriage between fashion and esports under the pandemic is unexpected, but predictably, influential.
Read MoreToday, ed-tech is an umbrella term that refers to any technological initiative designed to streamline learning. Despite this, startups in the space have had a rocky ride over the past half-decade with investors and skeptics raising questions about their cash burn, business models, and even their crown jewel: content. The black swan event that is COVID-19 has seen educational institutions and students flock to ed-tech platforms during the transition to online learning, but this begs the question: is ed-tech here to stay once the dust settles?
Read MoreIn this audio podcast, we hear an excerpt from a keynote given at Design Nation 2020 by Sandra Campos, CEO of Diane von Furstenberg. In this episode, she shares her journey to becoming the CEO of DVF, and how all of her different entrepreneurial adventures and career experiences gave her the crucial skills to grow as a business leader in fashion.
Read MoreBrooke Hopper, Lead Designer for Drawing & Painting at Adobe, explains how she balances the corporate and business sides of design with creativity and anticipates the needs of Adobe product users before they even realize they have those needs. She also predicts the impact of COVID-19 on digital art and usership and encourages readers pursuing careers in art and design to put themselves out there.
Read MoreIn 2015, a sleek, aesthetically designed bottle was strategically placed in the photos of prominent social media influencers like actress Minka Kelly and fashion designer Pia Arrobio. The company behind the trend was Dirty Lemon, a luxury health beverage firm. Since then, Dirty Lemon has sold over 2 million bottles and now has over 100,000 monthly customers. CEO Zak Normandin believes the company’s rise to popularity has a lot to do with its unconventional marketing techniques.
Read MoreAs part of the Business Today Chicago Breakout trip, students visited Halo Investing and learnt how the firm was disrupting its industry.
Read MoreAs part of Business Today’s Breakout Trip, Princeton students visited Digitas in Chicago, a marketing agency that fuses technology and creativity.
Read MoreKraft Heinz is embracing technology and data to remain a leading consumer brand. As part of Business Today’s Breakout Trip, Princeton students visited the firm’s headquarters in Chicago.
Read MoreWith stories like BREXIT, trade wars, and the rise of nationalism inundating the daily news, it’s hard not to ask the question: is globalization dead? The rapid decline of global foreign direct investment, nationalist parties roiling politics in the European Union, and the weakening of global trade for the first time since the Great Recession intimate that this could be the end of an era. Yet all the while, blockchain is sending us an entirely different signal: hang on, because globalization is very much alive and well.
Read More
Susan Dawson is a Princeton alumna and the President of E3 Alliance, a non-profit which aims at improving economic outcomes by reforming the education sector. She sat down with BT to talk about her career in business and her initiatives in the non-profit sector.
Read MoreChris Mahatma is a Principal on the Cloverlay Investment Team with extensive experience in Private Equity. He sat down with BT to talk about his career and advice he would give for students seeking careers in this industry.
Read MoreDan Abramowicz is Crown’s Chief Technology Officer with global responsibility for innovation and technology development across Crown’s business platforms. Before joining Crown, Dr. Abramowicz was a Technical Director in GE’s Global Research Center, responsible for innovation and technology.
Read MoreDisney’s releases of Star Wars films in China have been remarkable duds at the overseas box office, despite great successes like Avengers: Endgame in the country. Why has this been?
Read MoreFrom selling bean bags in college to debuting his company on the stock market, Shawn Nelson, the founder and CEO of Lovesac, talks about Lovesac’s commitment to making consumers buy better, the implications of the US-China trade war on retail, and the importance of grit in entrepreneurship.
Read MoreShaifali Aggarwal is the Founder/CEO of Ivy Groupe, a boutique MBA admissions consulting company whose mission is to help clients tell their story to business schools so that they can achieve their dreams and impact the world.
Read MoreSallie Krawcheck’s professional mission is to help women reach their financial and professional goals, thus enabling them to live better lives and unleashing a positive ripple effect for our families, our communities and our economy.
Read MoreArielle Patrick, Senior VP and Transaction Director at Edelman, speaks about financial PR, mentorship, and the definition of success.
Read MoreWith such an abundance of wildlife in Africa, and considering the contributions that wildlife has made to the overall prosperity and development of nations in the continent, the business of conservation should be everyone’s business.
Read More
