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Health, Wellness, and a Giveaway to WomenonBusiness Readers

Women on Business

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.

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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

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. It’s not surprising Katrina Markoff was named Woman of the Year by OPEN from American Express & Entrepreneur magazine.

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Fashion Friends Make a Fresh Start :: Women on Business

Women on Business

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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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

sascom Magazine sas com Magazine is the quarterly publication of the SAS Institute, Inc. Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine. sas com Magazine can also be accessed online at www.sas.com/sascom. Technology can probably breathe new life into them.

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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

While BCG or McKinsey will still proudly help a client devise a corporate strategy, in the eyes of many in the industry such projects have become what retailers call "loss leaders" — products you have to offer to get the customer in the door, but not where you make the real money. He is based in New York City and Boston.

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The Mainstreaming of Augmented Reality: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., But it also has implications for areas outside of entertainment, such as marketing, fashion, tourism, and retail, where commercial AR apps have already been increasing in numbers and popularity.

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Can We Finally Eradicate Bad Products?

Harvard Business Review

Not long ago, I had the pleasure of visiting the resplendent headquarters of Hearst Corporation, the privately-held media empire that owns Good Housekeeping magazine — and its famous Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Seeing this, it seemed no exaggeration that the magazine can claim "an illustrious history of consumer protection.".