Topic: Target Corporation

How to Stay on the Move ... When the World Is Slowing Down

It's hard to remember a less-inviting time to have a great idea for a new company or to champion new ideas to change a big company. But leaders who think big aren't willing to downsize their ambitions -- they just have to work a little harder (and smarter). Here's some battle-tested advice on how to stay fast in slow times.READ»

Truth 2: A Beautiful Idea Is Never Perfect

There is no such thing as the perfect business idea. There are good ideas that reward effort. There are ideas that attract interest and inspire support. There are beautiful ideas change our perception of what is possible and what ...READ»

Target Practice

The Michael Graves-Target partnership is the very model of a successful designer-retailer collaboration. But getting there was an occasionally bumpy ride.READ»

High Fashion at Low Prices

To my amazement while flipping the pages of People yesterday, I saw that the youthful, high fashion label, Alice + Olivia, now has a collection at Payless.  Has everyone gone to the cheap side? Not that I'm complaining in the ...READ»

Wal-Mart, Target and the value of the yuan

See page one article in today's Wall Sreet Journal (9-25-06), "Seeking Growth in Urban Areas, Wal-Mart Gets Cold Shoulder". Those who bash Wal-Mart usually fail to comment on the billions of dollars Wal-Mart annually saves consumers ...READ»

The 800-Pound Ad Review: Wal-Mart

It must have sucked to be Bob Bernstein and Skip Rein last Wednesday. The two founders of Bernstein-Rein, a Missouri-based ad agency, have been the agency of record for Wal-Mart for the past, get this: 32 years. Less than a week ago ...READ»

Has the Pope Trashed His Brand?

During the Watergate era, the press learned of a technique called "the non-denial denial" through which the administration could play a shell game with the truth. Though this technique they could seem to deny something -- without ...READ»

Dorm-in-a-Box: Designing a Better--And Cheaper--College Prep Experience

Everyone knows that buying in bulk saves you cash; a new company does that for your college-bound kid, providing a $850 discount.READ»

Small Booksellers Game Wal-Mart, Target, and Amazon

Books: Nowhere is there a more poignant battle between small businesses and their corporate competition. While music, movies, and TV were long-ago digitized by the forces that be, books are the laggard medium, making for a fight that ...READ»

Target's Black Market

There is now a black market for Target gift cards on Ebay. People will collect anything. Luckily for the people who are selling them the gift cards are free. I mean gift cards that haven't been assigned a monetary value. You can just ...READ»

It's Okay to Be Smaller

Fast Company senior writer Linda Tischler writes that the Michael Graves-Target partnership is the very model of a successful designer-retailer collaboration. Now, a new book, Simply Better, reveals what makes Target great -- and why ...READ»

Masters of Design: Robyn Waters

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A Design for Living

After Michael Graves fell ill, his business had one of its best years ever. This great designer's greatest design may be his company.READ»

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»

Luxury's Long Tail

Thanks largely to the deluxe-uccinos at Starbucks and the Michael Graves teapot at Target, it's now an article of faith that luxury is within reach of nearly every man, woman and child. But it also raises an enduring question: When a ...READ»

Looking at ads

I must confide that I learn as much from a magazine's advertisements as I do the articles themselves. I don't read them as a consumer, rather as an observer of the passing business parade (and contemporary ad agency thinking). ...READ»

Just Say No

There are some brands you won’t touch. What’s that all about?READ»

Big Brands, Lil' Apps

Today's mission: to see how a few of my favorite big brands are using iPhone apps. As you might expect, I found a ton of great branded apps, both free and paid. My three top picks are below and share a common theme--they make life a ...READ»

Advertisers in Issue 39

Interact with the companies whose products and services are advertised in Fast Company.READ»

The Home Depot Experience

In the last two years I have seen a consistent and ever growing decadence at big box retailers in the US. Recently I found myself choosing NOT to shop at Home Depot, but instead to visit a smaller retailer further from my home ...READ»

Advertisers in Issue 40

Interact with the companies whose products and services are advertised in Fast Company.READ»

Buying Fashion Jewelry: Things To Look Out For

If you are looking into purchasing cheap jewelry you have to be the judge as to whether the jewelry is real and how much you can get it for. With cheap jewelry, before buying, you must look at the markings on the piece ...READ»

When Dinosaurs Embrace

When all else fails, you can always merge. That seems to be the message behind Federated's $11 billion acquisition of May Department Stores. These are two struggling businesses in a moribund industry: for more than a decade now, ...READ»

Target and Trump: Strange Bedfellows of the Recession

Target unveiled its new spring and summer line in the penthouse of a tony high rise overlooking the river. If this doesn't signal the end of the "Reign of the I-Bank Moguls," nothing does.READ»

Design's Boom-and-Bust Cycle: Ten Years In, Ten to Go

The topic of design has generated a lot of buzz lately--so much, in fact, that some suggest that the renewed interest in all things creative is a passing fad. Not exactly. If we let history be our guide, we'll see that there's a ...READ»

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