The Visionaries
You need a great idea, an audience to serve, an amazing product to sell. You need an authentic and ideally, unique experience, and the ability to connect it all with technology. And somehow you have to do this quickly, at […]
Q&A With Zach Pandl, Senior Economist, Goldman Sachs
We caught up with Zach Pandl, Senior Economist at Goldman Sachs to get a reading on the global economy, and his thoughts about our complex financial future and the implications for the retail sector. Robin Lewis: Let’s start with kind
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The Creatives’ Revolt
I recently bumped into someone I hadn’t seen in many years, a great artist in his own right, who like me, had receded from the front row of the fashion business in the last decade or so. It was like
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The View Into 2026: America’s 250th Birthday
A Revolutionary Shift Surprisingly, 2016 actually looks a lot like 1776. And many of us never saw it coming. Consumers are seeking out unique and small scale businesses that make their own pickles, brew their own beer, and use local
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Streaming Style: Fashion Goes Netflix
The “Runway, Same Day” movement is not really a game changer. The game has already changed. The recent discussions around the \”Runway, Same Day\” business model, solidified by Burberry’s recent decision to combine both its men\’s and women\’s collections into a
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Can Food Save American Retailing?
Last time I checked with the boys in Siliconland, you still couldn’t go out to eat online. We’re not talking about Grubhubbing it to your front door or an Uberlicious special. This is about the idea of going someplace –
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Happy New Year!
Not Much Happy or New About It, Except… This Holiday Season, Santa’s sleigh was so overstuffed that he was able to leave a lot of nearly-free, and even-free gifts under the trees of our nation’s homes. So Daddy, Mommy and
Retail\’s Learning Pipeline: From Clicks to Bricks and Back Again
For the better part of 150 years, the art and science of retail has evolved slowly. In an era when brick-and mortar stores controlled a stable shopping experience, there were occasional flashes of innovation, but mostly a slow, steady cultural
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Millennials at Work
The future of the Millennial workspace has finally hit its apex: from bringing our home to the office and the new extremes of socializing in the workplace to Holacracy (a new, flat framework for management), we Millennials are defining our
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Investment Bellwethers: Four Pivotal Brands
Investor Headline: Slowing topline growth in tandem with increased marketing and IT spend leads to margin contraction and a disappointing bottom line. This is a sad assessment for many retailers in the omnichannel world of 2015. And the second half
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