In the old-world corporate phase of my career, I can’t remember how many times I was told “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Looking back, every time that bromide was uttered was exactly the… Read More
What does Eddie “fast buck” Lampert have to do with this? Before I get to the significance of the title of this article and HBC’s “go private plan,” I stated in an article way back… Read More
Paul Pressler (CEO, Gap — 2002-2007), passed his failing patient (Gap), over to CEO Glenn Murphy who was the unsuccessful surgeon who operated on Gap while it was on life support, between 2007 and 2015.… Read More
The next big thing is being rolled out by the thousands on almost a daily basis. To name them in the aggregate, we’re calling them tech-driven startups. They sprout up overnight, fueled by billions of… Read More
Just when you think you’ve heard enough from me about Kohl’s; you haven’t. You’d think that CEO Michelle Gass has a weekly calendar that reminds her every Monday to come up with this week’s daredevil… Read More
For sure, Amazon took all the oxygen out of the room and the breath away from the entire retail industry. And it continues … except for one retailer. As it turns out, Amazon was but… Read More
For the past several years, each Earth Day has surpassed the one before it with tons of digital and physical media loudly “talking the talk” about saving the planet. Big shift: There is now a… Read More
The fashion industry just lost an icon, a giant full-of-life character, a “call them as he saw them guy,” doused in great humor — and just simply a fine person and a wonderful friend, which… Read More
What’s the story? And I don’t mean what’s up? STORY has launched as an experiential miracle on 34th Street. Not to mention 36 stores nationwide in 15 states (five each in California and New York;… Read More
Four years later, I still say, “The TJX business model is not easily copied.” In fact, one could make the case that the specific differentiators and advantages that have been crafted into its DNA cannot… Read More
