CEO's Notebook
CEOs give advice on building a brand through custom publishing; limiting your number of all-staff functions; maximizing brainstorming sessions; and advertisi... Read more
The Neiman Marcus Group Inc.
Recent Articles about The Neiman Marcus Group Inc.
Distribution: Cash In with a Cause
A quick look at how some entreprenuers are using local fund-raising markets as distribution opportunities. Read more
Things I Can't Live Without: Fashion Designer Lela Rose
The entrepreneur’s essentials include Pylones bird scissors and a Bric’s suitcase. Read more
My Place: Sandy Chilewich's Showcase in the Sky, New York City
Finally Sandy Chilewich has the perfect showcase for her contemporary home goods. Read more
Things I Can't Live Without: Janine Popick
CEO of Vertical Response • San Francisco Read more
Stop The Presses
Arandell-Schmidt, once known as a calendar printer, totally repositioned itself to go after the catalog market. Read more
New Technologies to Thwart Laptop Theft
As laptops become hot items on the black market and to perpetrate identity theft, notebook computers are increasingly being targeted. Here are some new tools... Read more
Why Retailers Can't Discount Discounting
Department and specialty stores -- like Bloomingdale's and Brooks Brothers, I. Magnin, or Neiman-Marcus -- have traditionally dominated the retail apparel... Read more
Shy Shrimp -- A Fatal Flaw
When National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists were planning space colonies that would be self-sustaining worlds, they started small. They... Read more
How to Survive Your Next Business Trip
Road warriors have a cadre of tried and true travel tips that make simplify and chic-ify business travel -- a topic I explore in the latest episode of The... Read more
Getting into the Mind of a Lender
Banks and institutions that lend money have a lot of knowledge about the success rate of small businesses.Bankers are often overly cautious in making loan... Read more
What Comes after Email and Best Industries for Startups
The end of email? The Wall Street Journal gets Read more
Things I Can't Live Without: Tracy Reese
India influences Tracy Reese's fashions. The Maldives inhabit her dreams. Read more
Beating Yesterday
Back in 1888, Walter Jessurun had a great idea for a product. To make a retail business grow, he realized, you had to be able to compare today's volume o... Read more
26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs: Katrina Markoff
for setting a completely unreasonable goal for her business Read more
Katrina Markoff, Vosges Haut
for setting a completely unreasonable goal for her business Read more
Upstarts: New-Biz Watch
A look at Mark Begelman's MARS, a music and recording superstore that encourages customers to touch the merchandise, plus four shorter articles about the ret... Read more
Charged Up: Electric Vehicles
Three start-ups that are developing, converting, and manufacturing electric vehicles. Read more
Factoring Gets a Face-Lift
Often thought of as mercenary moneylenders, factors are undergoing a customer-friendly makeover. Read more
Things They Can't Live Without
Five young entrepreneurs share a few of their favorite things--and what’s on their holiday wish lists. Read more
Case Study #1: The Reluctant Entrepreneur
The Start-up: Nanda Home The Founder: Gauri Nanda Rochester Hills, Michigan The business proposition: ... Read more
Taking Copycats to Task
How two companies deal with knockoffs and imitators. Read more
The Word Is Out
One cold call to a dealer can start word-of-mouth advertising and get your product into stores. Lynn Gordon, proprietor of French ... Read more
Packaging: When It's Time for a Makeover
Partners from a gourmet-biscuit company explain how and why they pursued a new design for packaging their products. Read more
Word of Mouth
Word of mouth brings one bread business into great expansion. Read more
When the Walls Come Tumbling Down
A look at some of the benefits and pitfalls of replacing the traditional office with an open space linked by technology. Read more
Mentees on Mentors
Tom Stemberg , founder, chairman, and CEO of Staples, a $5.2 billion chain of office supply superstores <... Read more
When to Go Pro
Two Inc. 500 CEOs explain the way they approached hiring a management team, and what influenced that approach. Read more
Playing By The Rules
Gary Gabrel built Pente from a college-student's hobby to a million-unit sales success. But it may be time to trade in his unconventional moves for a more tr... Read more
The Wine Entrepreneurs
Forget stomping grapes. These savvy entrepreneurs have transformed their passion for wine into lucrative businesses. Read more
Caddy Shack
Companies from far and wide are lining up at Sewell Village Cadillac to learn a thing or two about bringing customers back for more Read more
Futurist Laurel Cutler
A decade ago she warned her clients of consumers who would shop K mart in the morning, Saks in the afternoon, and define their very being by their choice of ... Read more
Mighty Leaf is a Darling of Upscale Restaurants and Natural-Food Stores
Should its creators sell their luxe tea in the cutthroat world of supermarkets? Read more
Without You I'm Nothing
Tom King, CEO of Jo's Candies, sells almost exclusively to huge companies like Starbucks and Borders. He offers four rules for doing business with giants who... Read more
What's in Store for Mobil? Check Your Local 5
A quick look at why large companies have a lot to learn from the little guys, like how to handle customers. Read more
Merchant Prince Stanley Marcus
One of retailing's great impresarios thinks he knows who's to blame for the lost arts of salesmanship and merchandising -- it's the retailers themselves Read more
On Display
Founder Gordon Segal's sense of selling as theater has made Crate Barrel one of the world's most admired and imitated retailing operations. Read more
How to Raise an Entrepreneur
The key, Michelle Rousseff Kemp found, is to bar your kids from the family business. Read more
The Copycat: The Next Starbucks
Not only is imitation the sincerest form of flattery, but it may also be the easiest way to make a buck. Read more
- 1
- 2
ADVERTISEMENT
FROM OUR PARTNERS
Select Services
- Forced to pay more?
- Salesforce costs up to 65% more than Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Compare.
- Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint and Lync videoconferencing.
- Begin your free trial at Microsoft.com/office365
- Get on the same page
- Show and tell by sharing your screen instantly at join.me. Free.
- Shred No-Handed!
- Hands Free Shredding From Swingline Lets You Do More Productive Things!
- Winning new customers?
- SMB experts share their secrets at PersonallyPB.com/smb
- Turn Fans into Customers
- Social Campaigns from Constant Contact. Sign up now - it's free!
