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Retail Management Newsletter

• RMI Newsletter Vol 19, No. 1 Winter 2009
• • Two Weeks to a Breakthrough - by Debra Black
    Management trainer and author Lisa Haneberg loves to talk about breakthroughs. "Of all the books I've written, the one you get today - Two Weeks to a Breakthrough - is my absolute favorite,"...
    
  • The BIG Show Highlights the Trends - by Julia Benner '10
    The Jill Curran Scholarship allows a select group of Retail Management students to travel to New York for the National Retail Federation Conference and EXPO each year. This January, I had the opportunity to attend the conference with two other students...
  • The Gap is Back - by Quinn Olson '09
    Plaid is everywhere - some might call it the new black - and it has been lining the shelves at the Gap stores since well before the trend boomed. For many young hipsters, the Gap has fallen off the radar years back and was far from the ideal place to pick up must have style items.
    
  • Mr. Combs Like Blue - by Haley Banbury '10
    ...I had no idea how many life-changing experiences we were about to have, nor how many influential people we were going to meet. The other students and I had a whirlwind trip that taught us more about the retail industry in three days than we could have imagined...
  • Retailing in the 21st Century: Computer Models Help Decision Making, Bottom Line - by Mike Wallace
    Two decades ago, the tools available to retailers for choosing assortments, managing their inventories, and setting prices were, comparatively speaking, in the Dark Ages.
  • Retail Management Institute and TiasNimbas Business School - Executive Retail Program Membership
    In March, the TiasNimbas Business School at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and Santa Clara University's Retail Management Institute came together for a week-long Executive Retailing Program based on e-commerce and e-marketing.
  • Opportunity from Adversity : Making Sense of the Uncertainty - by Caroline Freytag '09
    The theme of the 2009 Shop.org Strategy and Innovation Forum, "Opportunity from Adversity" rang true in every presentation. How can a retailer deliver on digital retail in this challenging economy?
  • Web 2.0: Dead or Alive? - by Joanne Wang '09
    Is Web 2.0 dead? Hung LeHong of Gartner Research, one of Shop.org's 2009 Strategy and Innovation Forum's speakers, would most likely disagree.
  • Darwinian Effects in Internet Retailing - by Kimberly Bringas '09
    Shop.org's Strategy and Innovation Forum provided Internet retailers the opportunity to learn useful strategies and tactics to remain competitive during the recent economic downturn.
  • YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund Winner
    Santa Clara University sophomore Christina Sisois was awarded the YMA Fashion Scholarship for her project that involved writing a career oriented essay and developing a business plan based on the current state of the economy and what it takes to open up a new retail store in this environment.
  • Target Corporation's $4,000 Challenge - Kelsey Raaen '09
    How can Target strategically market to diverse consumer demographics? This is the question that RMI students were trying to strategically answer in a case study presented to them by Target Corporation...
  • Navigating the Internship Process - by Meghan Jahr '10
    Junior year means one important thing for members of the Retail Studies Program: time to start interviewing for summer internships.
    
  • New Recruiting Methods Increase Membership - by Caroline Freytag '09
    Recruiting efforts for the Retail Management Institute's Retail Studies Program have been in full swing since this fall. in the last few years, RMI has worked hard to promote this unique program, and this year was to be no exception.
    
    

• RMI Newsletter Vol 19, No.2 Fall 2008
• RMI Newsletter Vol. 18, No. 1 Winter 2008
• RMI Newsletter Vol. 18, No. 3 Fall 2007
• RMI Newsletter Vol. 18, No. 1 Spring 2007
• RMI Newsletter Vol. 17, No. 3 Fall 2006
• RMI Newsletter Vol. 17, No. 2 Spring 2006

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RMI group visits Patrick Robinson, EVP Design, at Gap headquarters in New York. (The Gap is Back - by Quinn Olson '09)

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