Articles on
Management
How Barnes & Noble Made a Comeback
Mark Faithfull
March 5, 2026
The Barnes & Noble strategy of deferring to local taste over stock-wide uniformity and treating stores as community hubs rather than depots of inventory stands ...
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Richard Baker: The Robin Report Retail Miss of the Week, 2.27.26
Warren Shoulberg
February 28, 2026
OK, play it again one more time. At first, I thought I was reading the satirical Onion when I saw an interview with former Saks/Neiman’s/HBC/Lord & Taylor/etc., self-styled ...
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Southdale Center Turns 70; Then What?
Sanford Stein
February 26, 2026
Repositioning malls from single-purpose points of transaction into dynamic community forums promoting human interaction is the sustainable reinvention of irrelevant malls. But, given the ginormous ...
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The Only Female Leader in the Room Becomes a Disruptive Tech CEO
The Robin Report
February 10, 2026
Melissa Gonzalez didn't plan to revolutionize retail. The Principal and founder of MG2 and author of The Purpose Pivot, left her Wall Street career for ...
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Walmart: The Robin Report Retail Hit of the Week, 2.7.2026
Warren Shoulberg
February 7, 2026
Take that Amazon and Google and all the rest of you entitled Magnificent Seven: You've got a new trillionaire member, and it’s not another tech ...
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Chip Wilson’s Fight To Save Lululemon, Redux
Pam Danziger
January 14, 2026
Is founder Chip Wilson able to save Lululemon, or will his ego push the brand further into irrelevance? And the answer is: One man’s ego ...
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How Melissa Gonzalez Went from Wall Street to Retail Visionary
The Robin Report
January 13, 2026
Melissa Gonzalez didn't plan to revolutionize retail. The Principal and founder of MG2 and author of The Purpose Pivot, left her Wall Street career for ...
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Why Chief Storytellers Are a Bad Idea
Thaler Pekar
January 8, 2026
Effective retailing demands that we enable people to find, believe, and share their own stories. And to do so enthusiastically, without hesitation. They shouldn’t have ...
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