2011 Finance Retail Trends 
Women on Business
DECEMBER 7, 2010
This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. I’m focusing on health and fitness, and to that end I’m inviting you to join me.
Women on Business
JANUARY 14, 2011
An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
This holiday season, many retailers are pondering a similar question: "Do we really have to give away so much margin?". The resulting "have and have not" economy is shaping each retailer's pricing strategy. This is leading to more spending: Retail sales in October increased by 0.5%, continuing a five month trend of higher purchases.
Women on Business
JANUARY 18, 2011
Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.
Strategy Driven
JULY 13, 2011
Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.
Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
Where are the next trends and opportunities? This chapter talks candidly about recent trends. Retailers make 70% of their earnings in the fourth quarter of each year. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 23, 2011
Two factors triggered my unease: the trends described by my co-authors and I in our recent HBR article and new work by Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence. In a Council on Foreign Relations working paper co-authored with Sandile Hlatshwayo of NYU's Stern School, Spence turns his attention to employment trends in the U.S.
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