Recently, word reached me that an old friend, colleague and an important mentor early in my career, had died. Aside from an unwelcome reminder of my own mortality it made me wonder whether the art of mentoring is becoming as […]
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The distribution century marches on. Its poster child and undisputed leader, Amazon, continues to amaze most people perhaps, but not me. I see Amazon’s bigger picture as it relates to its plans to open about 100 pop-up stores in malls
Amazon Pop-Ups? Don’t Kid Yourself Read More »
I learned something while researching this blog post: Plagiarism is alive and well and living on the Internet. How do I know this? Because when I punched the query “Why are razor blades so expensive?” into Google, several versions of
The 21st-century economist understands cash on a global market scale. Trillions are sitting in accounts across the world. The largest global technology companies are sitting on piles parked in offshore accounts beyond the reach of tax collectors. It poses questions
Blending Content with Commerce for Major Impact What if you could learn about—and eventually purchase—expertly curated, highly coveted beauty brands without ever having to darken the doorway of a department or specialty store? What if you could plunk down the
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The Evolution of Luxury Taste Disruption in a myriad of forms impacted luxury brands in 2015, slowing growth to a glacial pace globally and forcing brand managers to think the heretofore unthinkable and embrace e-commerce, social media, and the accompanying
Ubiquity Versus Exclusivity Read More »
Coming out of the Goldman Sachs Annual Retail Conference last week, I had a very uneasy feeling (other than the fact that Goldman once again delivered a first class conference). As I sat through each presentation, I searched for the
Controlled Chaos: An Industry on Edge Read More »
Westfield World Trade Center had its soft opening last week; it’s the latest masterpiece of rebirth of lower Manhattan since the 9/11 tragedy. It has been a painful 15 years of unrequited completion filled with heart-wrenching conflicts. For the many
Just the Tip of the Iceberg The Nordstroms do not accept compliments easily. And when they do, (as Blake Nordstrom did for a cover article I wrote over a year ago), it was with a shrug, and a quiet “thanks,
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Shoptalk came out of nowhere and became the hottest retail and e-commerce event with its much-anticipated Las Vegas launch this past May. The event was all it promised to be … and much more. Over 3,100 industry leaders and disrupters
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