Home / Executive Education / Thought Leadership / Retailing Newsletter / Current Issue

Current Retailing Newsletter

Winter 2012

EDITOR'S NOTE

We are pleased to present you with the winter Retailing Newsletter in a new, more interactive format. Our featured article, "Strategic Profit Model Results for 2010" is a review of both U.S. and international retailers' profitability and productivity results. Despite a very challenging economy, the results do show improvement in a number of areas.

Newsletter subscribers are invited to attend the upcoming Strategic Planning and Management in Retailing program at a special discount price of 10% off the registration fee. Past participants are encouraged to share this offer with colleagues who would benefit from the program.

Designed to give retail leaders new perspectives on the changing retail landscape and valuable tools for growing revenues, the next offering will take place at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, from April 28 - May 4.

For more information about the program or to register, please visit www.babson.edu/execed/retail and enter the promotional code RTLNL. You also may contact Deirdre Murphy at exec@babson.edu or 781-239-4340.

FEATURED ARTICLES

Strategic Planning and Management in Retailing Program Remains Popular

By Lawrence J. Ring

When Doug Tigert, Bert McCammon, and I started this program in 1983, we had no idea that it would become as popular and enduring as it has. To our great surprise and good fortune, Strategic Planning and Management in Retailing is still around and in one form or another has now been offered approximately 100 times on an open enrollment basis and even more in private or in-house programs to an estimated more than 7,000 participants on every continent except Antarctica. Read more>>

Strategic Profit Model Results for 2010

By John S. Strong and Lawrence J. Ring

As in past years, we have updated our review of Strategic Profit Model results for retailers for 2010. After a four-year period of dealing with financial crises and a deep, prolonged recession, retailers appear to have finally worked through adjustments to their business operations and seem to be regaining and strengthening financial performance. Read more>>

VIDEO SPOTLIGHT

Faculty Director Lawrence Ring discusses the Strategic Planning and Management in Retailing program.

CLIENT STORIES

BEE is fortunate to work with exceptional clients from around the world. We are recognized for our client-centric approach to training and development because we take the time to understand our clients' unique needs and dynamics, and customize our solutions for these needs.