TOOOO much fun in Bentonville Arkansas today. We had 350 regional
operational team members from Walmart that we needed to engage, get
laughing and teach about the capabilities of the JVC Everio HD
camcorders. (You should check them ...READ»
Once the youngest president of the Sierra Club, Adam Werbach used to call Wal-Mart toxic. Now the company is his biggest client. Does the path to a greener future run through Bentonville?READ»
If
you’ve never made the flight to Bentonville, Ark., you are missing
something extraordinary. The smallness of your plane, the vista of an
endless patchwork of farmland connected by country roads, hides the
fact that you are ...READ»
If you opened your local newspaper today, in between the department store white sales and the latest from Iraq, you might have seen Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott defending the pay and benefits it offers its employees in a full-page ad. The ...READ»
Core businesses become core for a reason: their business designs work--or worked. Eventually, all businesses require renovation. Sometimes, they require revolution. But it can be hard to tell when your company needs a radical ...READ»
I have been spending a lot of time recently viewing corporate recruiting video for our worklife.tv
platform and I have been noticing a lot of companies don’t really do
anything to get their brand out there. I’m not talking ...READ»
Wal-Mart announced today that it's joining the digital medical records race. With Obama designating $19 billion of the stimulus package to digitizing this leap, it's no wonder the most powerful retailer in the world has decided to ...READ»
It's the iconic American industry. But audiences are vanishing, piracy is soaring, and new technology is treacherous. Can Tinseltown innovate its way out of trouble?READ»
If you tuned into CNBC last night for the first time since, oh, March of 2000, you were in for some pretty compelling television. Although "The Age of Wal-Mart: Inside America's Most Powerful Company" rehashed much of the continuing ...READ»
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When Henry Kissinger quipped, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac," he wasn't talking about electric utilities. But readers deluged us with email and online comments about staff writer Anya Kamenetz's July/August article ...READ»
...wherein we save you from awkward networking, bad coffee, and having to deal with the crowds in Times Square. In this edition, Forrester Research's Consumer Forum, a two-day event at New York's Marriott Marquis, which focused on ...READ»
Wal-Mart has succeeded as a highly-evolved culture of the tangible by creating a dazzlingly efficient logistics operation, shaving cent-splinters off an item, and driving down overhead. This is the whole relentless apparatus that ...READ»
Wal-Mart has succeeded as a highly-evolved culture of the tangible by creating a dazzlingly efficient logistics operation, shaving cent-splinters off an item, and driving down overhead. This is the whole relentless apparatus that ...READ»
The mega-retailer plans to scale down new store sizes and re-engineer its merchandising, but will they leave behind hulking, vacant buildings (again)? READ»
In the course of reporting a story there are always many fascinating people I get to have incisive chats with, but painfully, never actually make it to the printed page. For my September cover story on Adam Werbach—the ...READ»
The Martin Agency’s new ads for Wal-Mart have finally hit the air, and I’m shocked to report that -- urban cynic that I am -- even I was touched. OK, so the company exploits its workers, squeezes its suppliers, and does other ...READ»
