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Retail According to Authentic Brands
Management

Retail According to Authentic Brands

Own the intellectual property, license the name, collect the fees, and let the operational partner take the capital risk. As retailers search for new profitable models, it turns out that the most valuable thing in retail is not the store but the story. Here is ABG’s.

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Glossiers Future Doesnt Look Good
Management

Glossier’s Future Doesn’t Look Good

Gen Z has the power today to make or break a brand. Loss of core values and virality, like in Glossier’s case, kills cultural relevance. Once a brand falls out of everyday conversation, especially in Gen Z’s social media landscape, it’s incredibly difficult to recover.

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Management

Lead Like Her: Carla Vernón’s Authentic Leadership Approach  

As an expert in founder-led companies, one of Carla Vernón’s contributions at The Honest Company is to protect Jessica Alba’s vision and bring the company into a new chapter where she has grown gross margins by a thousand basis points since she took the reins. How did she do it?

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QVC The Robin Report Retail Miss of the Week 04.11. 26
Operations

QVC: The Robin Report Retail Miss of the Week, 04.11. 26

Imagine being able to actually buy things that were being shown on your TV, not just watching dead-end commercials. It was interactive before interactive was even a thing. Now, nearly 50 years later, TV shopping is no longer a thing and with the news that QVC has missed its financial filing deadline yet again and will most likely end up in chapter 11, it may not be around…as we know it.

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Retail Unwrapped Podcast

GLP-1 Is a Disruption Retailers Aren’t Ready For

Join Shelley with Liza Amlani, Founder of Retail Strategy Group and Ali Furman, PwC’s Consumer Markets Industry Leader as they challenge retailers to confront how to serve customers when body sizes change faster than the systems built to serve them.

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Woolworths Chatbot Went Rogue
Technology

Woolworths’ Chatbot Went Rogue

Research on human-computer interaction has consistently found that people respond positively to interfaces that feel conversational and warm, while younger shoppers are especially comfortable chatting with bots. As a result, human-like AI agents with a name and personality tend to generate higher customer engagement, satisfaction and trust. What happens when they go rogue?

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Retail in 2028 A Foresight Report
Management

Retail in 2028: A Foresight Report

Foresight is a critical tool right now. Our assumption is that a future, serious economic shock sits firmly within the zone of plausibility. Should an employment collapse materialize, the organizations that will thrive in the 2030s are those that lean into the new economic reality, rather than those waiting for a return to a normal that will never materialize.

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