Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 23, 2013

This year’s conference includes Karen Katz, President and CEO of Nieman Marcus, Maxine Clark, Founder of Build-a-Bear Workshop, Duncan Mac Naughtan, EVP, Chief Merchandising & Marketing Officer for Wal-Mart U.S. The Retailing Summit is a premiere event for senior leaders in retail.

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Katz Hamel Merchandising Retail 191

CEO Insider

JUNE 6, 2023

During my CEO Group workshops, I often ask the members to pair off and thumb-wrestle one another. I tell them that the CEO who gets the most pins in thirty seconds will win a fictional $100,000. After thirty seconds, I asked each pair who got the most pins.

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Magazine Workshop CEO Chief Financial Officer 104

Women on Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

“Bubola” creates custom designs for business owners & entrepreneurs, leads workshops for students at FIDM (Fashion Institute for Design and Merchandising) & also designs & implements empowerment workshops at women’s shelters & schools throughout California.

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Succession Apparel Workshop Merchandising 239

Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It’s very European and draws you in quickly with well-displayed, reasonably priced merchandise. Granted I’m not warranting or even suggesting their merchandise. Learn How to Preach at this One-Day Workshop. Not everyone loves the place, but it’s obvious many do. I took Cheryl and she was a serious shopper.

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Merchandising Price Workshop Edmondson 60

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

One retailer I know saw a 35% bump in sales when it gave customers the option of picking up merchandise in its stores that they had bought online.). All members (men and women) receive a 10% discount on merchandise. But that alone will not save many retailers’ physical stores.

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Merchandising Retail Reis Discount 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Brown and Millar told me that Sense has been running co-creation, both in global online communities and in workshops around the world, for over a decade. When you're running co-creation workshops, don't expect a big "a-ha" moment when the clouds part and somebody blurts out The Next Big Thing. "You need to do something new.

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Workshop Creativity Merchandising Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. When a change practitioner talks about data, typically that is qualitative information, generated by a root cause analysis workshop or similar. To date, change management has not been based on a data-driven model.

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Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8