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...course, the Obama campaign will be remembered for spectacles like Obama's stadium speech at the Democratic convention and his equally massive appearance in Berlin. But in fact, his campaign just as often deliberately chose not to maximize Obama's crowd appeal. During the primaries, where retail politics was premium, they focused on house parties and ice cream socials, concerned that Obama's celebrity status might put off the famously demanding Iowa and New Hampshire voters. In the general election they centered his appearances on town hall meetings and round table discussions, usually with folks who had stories to tell...
...date possible. That means five fewer shopping days (and one less weekend) between Thanksgiving and Christmas than last year. "Stores are trying to grab their share of consumers earlier because they don't think there will be that much to go around," says Stacy Janiak, vice chairman and U.S. retail leader at Deloitte LLP. "If they can get people to shop now it will be better than waiting...
...retailers will be managing inventory smartly. The economy has been braking for months, so many stores have already adjusted inventories accordingly. "Don't forget, this slowdown started hitting a lot of retailers back in December of last year," says Darrell Rigby, head of Bain & Company's global retail sales practice. "It might be challenging, but it's not completely surprising." Still, no one predicted a Wall Street implosion right before Santa Claus' arrival...
...managers is not the sole result of individual ability. In the NFL, a large performance gap was found between individual players, like punters, and team-dependent athletes, like receivers. “Some types of jobs are distinctively more portable than others,” Abraham said. Punters, like retail brokers, work independently and are less influenced by a change in environment, she said, but the performance of NFL receivers, like workers on a team, is largely dependent on teammates. “It is a risky business of hiring stars,” Groysberg said. “Part...
...partisan National Partnership for Women and Families looked closely at the EEOC's figures for the decade between 1996 and 2005 and found that more than half of the complaints came not from the more traditionally chauvinistic mining or building trades but from five female-heavy industries: retail, services, finance, real estate and insurance. "One of the most ironic cases was that of a maternity store that had a policy of not hiring pregnant employees," says Jocelyn Frye, General Counsel for the Partnership...