Topic: J. Crew Group Inc.

Clothing the Sale

When designers at Brooks Brothers started to plan the company's fall line of clothing, they looked to some interesting sources for ideas. These sources weren't outside of their industry. They weren't overly technological in nature. ...READ»

The Life After T-Shirt Experience

Ahhh, that time of life when you've got to begin paying (really) for your clothes yourself, and when those four years of college food impact whether you'll really ever wear low-rise jeans again! As this NY Times Articlestates, ...READ»

Customer Focused Companies

Smart companies focus on customers. They don't ask for government bailouts.READ»

• Evolutionary Economics: Bottom Up Solutions to Business Problems

Shopping for a Cause

A look at five of the top socially conscious places to shop online.READ»

Peripheral Personality

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Recession Fashion

The depressing economy may be prompting us to keep our wallets shut, but so far it's doing very little to curb our fashion obsession. Amidst widespread corporate layoffs, our nation elected a new president, and subsequent fashion coverage followed the historic event.READ»

Gold Standard

The Mitchell Gold Co. is bringing overdue change to an out-of-touch industry: home furniture. But unlike so many other mavericks, its primary competitive weapon isn't the Internet. Instead, the company is deploying a smart sense of design.READ»

Internet Retailer reports 150% growth in Fiscal Year 2008 despite downturn in economy.

Outdoor gear for kids internet retailer, UpsideOver.com, reports extreme growth due to "Staycations", internet growth and strong management team. New York, NY (PRWEB) January 5, 2008 -- Upside Over Inc., (http://Upsideover.com), ...READ»

Pass Me a Bottle, Mr. Jones

Borders’ new CEO George Jones faces a major challenge. Known as a retail innovator from stints at Warner Bros. Studio Stores and Saks, Jones takes over a company that’s locked in a competitive vise-grip between Barnes & Noble and ...READ»

Insane Discount Season

You probably saw this year's reports of retailers' pre-Thanksgiving bravado. "This holiday shopping season," The New York Times declared breezily on Nov. 22, "America's clothing stores are offering their customers something they have ...READ»

How We Sell

If shopping is the great American indoor sport, why isn't it more fun? Why isn't it easier? Why isn't it better? Paco Underhill, founder of Envirosell Inc., decodes the secrets of retail design to explain the rules behind how we shop.READ»

What's Selling in America: part 4 of 5.

"We Decided to Merchandise Raised Toilet Seats in the Same Way You'd Merchandise Lamp Fixtures at Pottery Barn." Can Take Good Care Make Hip Replacements Hip? "What a drag it is, getting old," whined Mick Jagger in 1966. What a drag, ...READ»

Inspiration Junkies

Three guys in a beat-up RV have been collecting career advice from the likes of Michael Dell and Sandra Day O'Connor. Now they're spreading the gospel on college campuses across the country.READ»

Panjiva: A Morningstar for Manufacturing

Panjiva brings intelligent search and better information to the fashion industry's hunt for suppliers.READ»

Fast Talk: The Creative Impulse

Five young professionals in the fields of fashion, design, publishing, advertising, and architecture discuss the source of their creativity and what drives it.READ»

Barneys and Friend

Sheldon Gilbert helps the hip department store decode the desires of its online customers.READ»

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• The State of Mobile Advertising

Lululemon’s Cult of Selling

Lululemon has created a cult following for its yoga gear. Its secret? The Secret, as well as other controversial self-help classics.READ»

• Big Stretch

Ruling The Roost

Like just about everything Crispin Porter + Bogusky does, the Subservient Chicken ad campaign is risky and extreme. It's also very, very smart.READ»

The Road Not Taken

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A Cast of Leaders

Broadway is the classroom, leadership is the script: 14 Duke students tackle the Great White Way to learn the role of their lives.READ»

What They don't Teach You about in B-school

Should you go to business school? If so, how do you get in? And if you go, what will you take away? If you want to pass the B-school test, take a lesson from some B-school students.READ»