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Management
Is Sonia Syngal Gap’s Fourth “Hail Mary?”
Robin Lewis
November 17, 2021
Mickey Drexler left the helm of Gap in 2002, after he had guided it through almost two decades of meteoric growth from $480 million in ...
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Ulta and Sephora Break into the Big Boxes
Sanford Stein
November 14, 2021
America’s beauty queens, Ulta and Sephora, have been going head-to-head in the U.S. market since Ulta launched in 1990, and Sephora opened its first store ...
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The Challenges of Change Management
Jon Dano
October 27, 2021
In the workplace, everyone experiences change. How we experience it can vary greatly. Over the many years of my career, I have been a recipient ...
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SaksWorks and SPARC: Victims of Fatal Attractions
Robin Lewis
August 18, 2021
I’m not quite sure where I want to go with this. I think we may wind up with many more questions than answers. However, one ...
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Leadership in an Evolving Pandemic
Deborah Patton
August 17, 2021
Leading in a Time of Ambiguity Living though a pandemic is shadowed by nearly constant uncertainty. We take three steps forward, two sideways and unfortunately, ...
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Forever 21: Third Try in China, Charmed or Strikeout?
Robin Lewis
August 11, 2021
On October 9, 2019, I wrote Forever 21: Cut Your Losses and Die Happily and predicted Forever 21’s demise, and why. And predictably, they slipped ...
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Saks\’ Bold Move
Pam Danziger
July 21, 2021
When news broke recently that HBC was splitting Saks Fifth Avenue into two, spinning off its ecommerce business from its brick-and-mortar stores, speculation swirled about ...
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CSR in the Age of Transparency
Sarah Holbrook
July 18, 2021
I read great reviews of the film The Summer of Soul, a documentary directed by Questlove, known to many as the bandleader of The Roots, ...
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