Back in the day we called them “knockoffs.” For example, brick-and-mortar retailers would copy a brand’s best-seller summer dress and design a near duplicate for ...

As recently as five years ago, I would have said that Walmart fashion is an oxymoron. Denise Incandela joined the value behemoth in 2017 and ...

The much-debated Disney versus DeSantis blow-up – the one in which one of America’s most beloved brands came into the crosshairs of Florida Governor and ...

The rap against RH was that it was a one-trick pony, with just a single design look that wouldn’t allow it to grow beyond a ...

In the middle of the barrage of acquisitors for Kohl’s, I wrote Two Real Estate Moguls. Note to Kohl’s: Repel, Repel, Repel. At the time, ...

Leaders of organizations fall into three categories: pontificators, remediators and transformers. Pontificators Pontificators spend much of their time opining as to their past triumphs and ...

I wrote in November 2021, Is Sonia Syngal Gap’s Fourth “Hail Mary?”, largely based on the three “Hail Marys” that preceded her, of whom failed ...

A recent Wall Street Journal article quoted Bill George, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, saying, “The No. 1 concern CEOs have is ‘When ...