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BusinessWeek February 12, 2007 Robert Berner |
My Year At Wal-Mart How marketing whiz Julie Roehm suffered a spectacular fall in 10 short months. |
BusinessWeek November 13, 2006 David Kiley |
Mad Ave's Man Of The Hour Howard Draft won over Wal-Mart with a potent mix of data-mining and creativity. |
Inc. March 2009 Leigh Buchanan |
A Skimmer's Guide to the Latest Business Books It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven by Purpose, by Roy M. Spence Jr. with Haley Rushing is reviewed. |
BusinessWeek June 3, 2009 Matthew Boyle |
Wal-Mart Moves Upmarket The recession is bringing Wal-Mart affluent shoppers looking for bargains. Can new CEO Duke keep them in a recovery? |
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Aaron Bernstein |
Declaring War On Wal-Mart Wal-Mart's low prices remain irresistible, especially to the working poor who organized labor aims to help. Even so, if all its critics gang up, the company could have its hands full protecting its image. |
The Motley Fool April 19, 2007 Michael Leibert |
Dueling Fools: Wal-Mart Bear Rebuttal Wal-Mart's management will someday get out of the way of the company's share price, rewarding long-term shareholders, but that day continues to seem distant. |
Fast Company July 2009 Danielle Sacks |
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. |
BusinessWeek January 30, 2006 Michael Arndt |
Danger: Falling Prices "The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How it's Transforming the American Economy" is an insightful look at the effect, for good and bad, of Wal-Mart's focus on price-cutting. |
Inc. November 2003 John Anderson |
Running the Gauntlet at Wal-Mart The process of selling to the behemoth of Bentonville starts well before you push open the doors of its Arkansas headquarters. But it's within the fortress itself that the dream (or nightmare) of working with Wal-Mart really begins. |
The Motley Fool July 16, 2010 Mac Greer |
BP's Mess and Why You Don't Mess With Texas An interview with marketing guru Roy Spence, who offers up some advice for BP. |
The Motley Fool May 15, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Wal-Mart Walks In Wal-Mart chimes in with its first-quarter 2006 numbers tomorrow. Here's what you need to know to make sense of the news. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool April 19, 2007 Michael Leibert |
Dueling Fools: Wal-Mart Bear Is Wal-Mart losing its edge? Investors looking for a stock that will outperform the market would be well-served to keep looking. |
BusinessWeek April 30, 2007 Anthony Bianco |
Wal-Mart's Midlife Crisis Declining growth, increasing competition, and not an easy fix in site for Wal-Mart. |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2011 Rich Smith |
Wal-Mart: Kick 'Em When They're Down Will Wal-Mart devastate the office supplies retailers? |
Fast Company December 2003 Charles Fishman |
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? |
The Motley Fool February 18, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
Has Wal-Mart Hit the Wall? Should investors search for greener retail-stock pastures? |
BusinessWeek November 21, 2005 Robert Berner |
Watch Out, Best Buy And Circuit City The real earnings engine at Best Buy and Circuit City is not the product sale, but in the sale of warranties. Now, Wal-Mart is trying to cut them off at the register. Will Wal-Mart's move also cut into their earnings? |
BusinessWeek October 6, 2003 Bianco & Zellner |
Is Wal-Mart Too Powerful? Low prices are great. But Wal-Mart's dominance creates problems -- for suppliers, workers, communities, and even American culture |
HBS Working Knowledge August 23, 2006 Ghemawat & Mark |
The Real Wal-Mart Effect Critics are lining up to take shots at Wal-Mart's treatment of workers and a host of other alleged knocks against society. But the critics miss one big point: Wal-Mart's overall impact benefits the economy and lower-income consumers. |
Fast Company September 1, 2007 Danielle Sacks |
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? |
The Motley Fool April 5, 2005 Seth Jayson |
Has Wal-Mart Gone Terminal? The Street seems to think that the house of Sam has exhausted its growth opportunities. Stock watchers need to keep an eye out to see whether Wall Street bids it down too far. |
The Motley Fool July 12, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Whither, Whether, Wal-Mart? Is good news for Wal-Mart signals bad news for the economy? |
U.S. Banker September 2010 John Engen |
Wal-Mart, Undeterred Recent actions suggest that Wal-Mart is angling for another run at a U.S. banking charter. And next time around, its ambitions could go well beyond processing payments. |
BusinessWeek July 31, 2006 Robert Berner |
Fashion Emergency At Wal-Mart Shoppers are ignoring the racks. Can Wal-Mart change its style-challenged image? |
The Motley Fool February 22, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
Woe Is Wal-Mart This year, there were no holly jolly holidays for the discount giant. |
The Motley Fool November 23, 2005 Seth Jayson |
Dueling Fools: Wal-Mart Bull Rebuttal With Wal-Mart, investors are riding with proven success. The company has always overcome insurmountable obstacles, and it will continue to do so. |
BusinessWeek November 15, 2004 Erin Chambers |
For Your Eyes Only, Wal-Mart Woman Time Inc.'s All You magazine, for Middle America's discount shopping crowd, shuns subscriptions in favor of the superchain's shelves. Now others are rushing to develop low-priced newsstand titles themselves. |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
What Happened to Wal-Mart's Low Prices? The discount retailer's prices are rolling both ways. |
BusinessWeek August 5, 2010 |
Hard Choices: Jeffrey Hollender on Doing Business with Wal-Mart The co-founder and Chief Inspired Protagonist of Seventh Generation talks about why he refused to do business with Wal-Mart - and then changed his mind. |
Knowledge@Wharton April 9, 2003 |
The Wal-Mart Empire: A Simple Formula and Unstoppable Growth The company has a simple formula of low prices and rocket-science logistics to back up its operations. There's no secret to its success. |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Wal-Mart's Price Blitz Regardless of whether Wal-Mart's continued price-slashing is a sign of weakness or strength, it's enough to make its investors, and those of its rivals, a little bit nervous. |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2005 Timothy M. Otte |
Styling With Wal-Mart Is the world's largest retailer about to upgrade in style and quality? |
Fast Company April 2005 Chuck Salter |
Pulling Punches CEO Lee Scott went on the record to fight Wal-Mart's bad rep. But his PR effort hit the mat. Instead of quelling controversy, it fanned the flames and reeked of damage control. |
The Motley Fool January 2, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Play It Again, Sam Walton Despite a disappointing November that found comps sliding by 0.1%, the world's largest retailer bounced back during the critical holiday shopping season, posting a 1.6% uptick in same-store sales for the month of December. |
The Motley Fool October 17, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Please Stop Picking on Wal-Mart The retailer endures yet more undeserved media furor. Wal-Mart's latest round of pundit target practice comes courtesy of three distinct online endeavors that have come under fire this month. |
The Motley Fool November 6, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Wal-Mart Shows Its Teeth A holiday price war reinforces Wal-Mart's competitive strengths. Nonetheless, investors should watch closely, to make sure all those everyday low prices don't do too much damage to its margins as it tries to put the hurt on its competitors. |
The Motley Fool June 7, 2011 Shubh Datta |
Wal-Mart's Ready for Africa Wal-Mart gets the go-ahead to complete its $2.4 billion merger with African retailers Massmart. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
Wal-Mart's Facelift A new logo may be in Wal-Mart's future. |
The Motley Fool August 14, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
Is It Time to Put Wal-Mart on Pause? As expected, Wal-Mart had a solid second quarter. However, given upcoming challenges, it makes sense that some investors may want to say "when" on the discount retailer's stock, at least for the time being. |
The Motley Fool December 26, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Can Apple Make Wal-Mart Cool? It's official. Wal-Mart will begin selling Apple's 3G iPhone. |
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Seth Jayson |
Great Wal of China Wal-Mart says it may hire another 150,000 in China over the next five years. Investors are looking at a pretty decent opportunity here. |
Home Theater May 18, 2007 |
Did Wal-Mart Kill the TV Business? Wal-Mart's decision to drop the price of a 42-inch plasma below the $1000 barrier caused a chain reaction of retail misery. |
The Motley Fool November 8, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Hitting a Moving Target The discount retailer readies its back-to-school quarterly report. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
Why Women Are Mad at Wal-Mart A lawsuit, originally filed almost 10 years ago, claims that Wal-Mart paid women less than their male counterparts while offering them fewer promotions. Wal-Mart wants to challenge the suit's class action status in the U.S. Supreme Court. |
The Motley Fool September 5, 2006 Nathan Parmelee |
The Expectations Game The expectations for Target and Wal-Mart aren't the same, but lately the performance is. Investors, take note. |
Fast Company January 2003 Bill Breen |
How Does a 900-Pound Gorilla Get to Be an 1,800-Pound Gorilla? Wal-Mart thinks outside the big box |
HBS Working Knowledge August 16, 2004 Barwise & Meehan |
Bull's-Eye: Target's Cheap-Chic Strategy Target's outside-the-box strategy made it the No. 2 discounter behind you-know-who. The company's success is examined in this excerpt from the new book Simply Better, from Harvard Business School Press. |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2005 Richard Moore |
Wal-Mart: The Retail Pariah Success has its drawbacks. Even when Wal-Mart does something that its critics would normally support, the company takes flak. What's an investor to do? |
CFO December 1, 2006 Wu Chen |
View from China: Unions at Wal-Mart In a surprise move, Wal-Mart allows its workers in China to unionize. |
The Motley Fool October 18, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
Wal-Mart's Slash-and-Burn Strategy Wal-Mart's willing to put margins on the line to drive traffic and sales, spurring rivals to follow suit in order to keep price-conscious shoppers. Investors, take note. |