Retailing Articles by Issue
Winter 2012
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. However, we started the program in response to several retail companies that came to us asking for retail-specific executive education. They wanted a program that would be about retailing and from the retailer’s point of view—one that would deal with retail issues and use retail case examples and discuss the latest trends and research in retailing. Little of that existed at that time, and as it turns out, there is still a dearth of retail specific programs for the industry’s executives today. And, 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.
Strategic Profit Model Results for 2010
John S. Strong & 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 seem to finally have worked through adjustments to their business operations and seem to be regaining and strengthening financial performance.