THE BUSINESS OF JEWELRY REPORT | Q3 2026
The Adaptation Odyssey: A Strategic Guide to Moving Sooner, More Often, on Smaller Decisions
Welcome to our Q3 2026 THE BUSINESS OF JEWELRY REPORT.
This edition examines the distance between how quickly conditions change in our industry and how quickly our businesses respond. Diamond supply, lab grown, tariffs, gold, and artificial intelligence have each moved faster than the sector was built to absorb. Not one of them is finished.
Inside, eight guest experts from The Business of Jewelry Roundtable set out how they would close that gap, from Harvard Business School's Dennis Campbell on why AI capability is outrunning the organizations meant to use it, to Bain & Company's Claudia D'Arpizio on the seventy million customers luxury lost and why jewelry is best placed to win them back.