Women in Business Challenge with IÉSEG
Join ambitious peers for an interactive, high-impact business challenge led by Hult professor Margareta James. Gain firsthand insight into how industry leaders tackle complex problems.
Whether you’re exploring your career path or building decision-making skills, this experience offers hands-on learning, fresh perspectives, and an energizing challenge beyond the classroom.
Event details
Address: Espace Grande Arche, Parvis de la Défense, Puteaux, France
Date: February 19, 2026
Time: 2pm - 5pm
What to expect
Luxury as Investment: How to be Smart When Buying Luxury Items
Join this live, in-person business challenge exploring the future of luxury. Start with a practical pitching framework, then work in teams to step into an iconic brand and tackle a key industry question: how can a luxury brand educate and empower women to make smarter luxury purchases while reinforcing its prestige?
This fast-paced, hands-on experience builds strategic thinking, creative problem-solving, and presentation skills while offering insight into how leading luxury brands strengthen brand trust and exclusivity.
Margareta James
Margareta is a professor of leadership and personal development at Hult International Business School. She draws from her business, psychology, neuroscience, and coaching consultancy background to enable current and future leaders to get the results they seek through maximizing their potential and ultimate wellbeing.
She also designs and delivers executive-level learning and development programs and has worked with senior executives from companies, including Rolls Royce, 3M, Arthur J Gallagher, BAE Systems, Experian, Ford, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Vertu, KPMG, Vodafone, Weller Media Agency, and many others. Margareta’s work and thinking attracts much media interest via various media channels, newspapers, and magazines including the BBC, Financial Times, MTV1, Channel 4, and many more. Margareta is also the founder and director of the Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic.
A Business School for Those Made to Do
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More than a non-profit business school, Hult is a dynamic multicultural community that educates, inspires, and connects some of the world’s most forward-thinking business talent. We flip the traditional approach to education by using learning-by-doing experiences to transform students' skillset, from the moment they join us, into that of an exceptional businessperson, from the moment they graduate.
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