Topic: Bentonville

Bentonville GETS BONKED! Great Walmart Event!

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»

Behind the Rebranding Campaign of Wal-Mart’s Scarlet Woman

Nearly three years after being fired by Wal-Mart, marketer Julie Roehm faces her toughest rebranding campaign ever.READ»

Working With the Enemy

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»

Memo to Wal-Mart: There are Better Ways

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»

The Performance Paradox

If you deliver, you only qualify to deliver more. So how can we possibly get off the treadmill?READ»

No One Can See Your Corporate Recruitment Branding

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»

Google, Microsoft, IBM...and Now Wal-Mart: Which Will Build the Killer App for Digital Medical Records?

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»

Building a Better Movie Business

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»

Chairman Mao Stares at a Wal-Mart

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»

No Way to Run a Business

Our monthly letter from the editor.READ»

Clan of the Caveman

When the Martin Agency won the $580 million Wal-Mart account, it proved that smart advertising is about more than geckos--it's about the numbers.READ»

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Going Local 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»

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Conference Recap...

...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»

Fast Talk: Books That Matter

One book can change the direction of a company -- or a career.READ»

Ten Steps to Turn Around Wal-Mart

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»

Ten Steps to Turn Around Wal-Mart, Part 1

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»

June Events for Creative Business People

What's happening in June, from Wal-Mart's annual meeting to the World Barista Championships.READ»

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Wal-Mart Plans to Grow by Shrinking

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»

Towards More Efficient Systems

Wal-Mart's domestic distribution client server development group can't afford to be inefficient.READ»

Cover Story Outtake I: Seventh Generation’s Jeffrey Hollender Dishes on Wal-Mart & Sustainability

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»

Wal-Mart's New Ads: Spots Even a Curmudgeon Could Love

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»

Is Your Company Up To Speed?

Does your strategy buck the conventional wisdom? Are you as committed to creating new leaders as you are to launching new products? Is your organization built for speed? Here are 10 make-or-break questions to evaluate your company's performance -- and 25 fast companies that pass the test.READ»

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The Wal-Mart You Don't Know

The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line?READ»