Consumers have been transformed, but not by the recession. The metamorphosis, which started long before the economic downturn, will prevail regardless of what Congress, The Fed, or Europe does. Here’s what everyone from Proctor & Gamble (PG) to Neiman-Marcus needs […]
From Me to We, From More to Less: Five Value Shifts That are Changing our World Read More »
The American Dream that many so-called “hippies” of the 1960s counterculture movement embraced, chanting their mantra of “Peace and Love,” became something very different once the 1970s, which Tom Wolfe named “the Me decade,” came along. Somewhere along their free-loving,
The New American Dream: Where Have All The Hippies Gone? Read More »
Best Practices from Kurt Salmons Q&A With Andrew Zgutowicz It’s no secret that new technologies are reshaping some of the retail industry’s most fundamental rules for success. Some of the biggest impacts will likely be felt in a retailer’s customer
Tech Tools that Bring the Consumer Into Focus Read More »
Publicists in the Digital Age Get No Beauty Sleep Ten years ago, the young women who would eventually band together and form the public relations firm DNA, planting their flag in the ‘burbs in Rye, NY, were hard-charging Manhattan beauty
I’m back onto economic issues, and how can I not be? What a mess we are in. I honestly do believe we have reached the highest point in our so-called recovery. Read “From Inflation to Stagflation to Deflation,” and “Tech
Is it “here we go again?” Or, is it “this time is different”? Is it “irrational exuberance”? Or, is it a brilliant investment strategy? Is this a new bubble that floats? Or, is this a “same old, same old” bubble
Kermit was wrong: It is, in fact,easy being green. The hard part is getting anybody to pay for it. The home furnishings business, like a lot of consumer product industries, has struggled with how to make its products more environmentally
Environmentally Unconscious Read More »
To semi-paraphrase Gordon Gekko, when it comes to an ever broader swath of the skincare market, green is good. At least that’s the assumption an industry-watcher could make when scanning the 2011 list of finalists for the much-coveted Cosmetic Executive
All I Ever Wanted Was Green Skin Read More »
In the spring of 1976, as a young researcher working for a small nonprofit organization, I was invited to a lunch discussion at the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, which occupied an elegant town house on New York’s Upper
The Sky’s the Limit Read More »
We talked with the Goldman Sachs Chief U.S. Economist, who is responsible for setting the firm’s U.S. economic and interest rate outlook, about his forecast for economic growth and employment, the likelihood of another economic decline, and the future role
Q&A with Jan Hatzius, Chief U.S. Economist, Goldman Sachs Read More »
