Articles on
Management
Did Marc Lore Get the Walmart Boot? Or Mission Accomplished?
Robin Lewis
January 24, 2021
Marc Lore announced his departure from his role as President and CEO of Walmart\’s ecommerce business (which included Jet.com prior to its being shut down ...
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The Retail Apocalypse: Up Close and Personal
Mark Cohen
January 17, 2021
The Great American Shopping Mall, a truly unique 20th century phenomenon, emerged for the first time in the late 1960s and exploded across the United ...
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Corporate Social Justice Is Now a Permanent Feature of the Retail Landscape
Arick Wierson
January 12, 2021
Retail, like much of the rest of corporate America, is entering an era of corporate political activism. In the wake of last week’s seizure of ...
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The Future CEO
Michael Coady
January 10, 2021
Ideally, in order to excel in today\’s fashion and retail marketplace a top senior executive needs to have strong engineering skills to match an experienced ...
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The New Chief Marketing Officer
Shelley E. Kohan
December 30, 2020
The average age of a CMO is 52 for the consumer industry segment — and the CMO position has the shortest tenure of all C-suite ...
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Ten Leadership Lessons from 2020
Deborah Patton
December 20, 2020
In so many ways, the date of a new year is arbitrary. In Western societies, we’re still on the Gregorian calendar, but there are plenty ...
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Classing Up the Joint
Dana Wood
December 7, 2020
Although “nimble” and “agile” aren’t two attributes I typically ascribe to the beauty industry, there’s something that feels decidedly “fast on their feet” about the ...
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A Radical Visionary Envisions Nike’s Dominant Future
Robin Lewis
December 1, 2020
When you see the image of a swoosh and hear or read the words “there is no finish line” or “just do it,” what brand ...
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