Sunday, February 27, 2011

The Wal-Mart You Don't Know

Check out this FastCompany piece on Wal-Mart's business practices. Incredible insights about its scale:
  • 12% of the economy's productivity gains in the second half of the 1990s could be traced to Wal-Mart alone
  • Last year, 7.5 cents of every dollar spent in any store in the United States (other than auto-parts stores) went to the retailer
  • It does more business than Target, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Safeway, and Kroger combined
On the flip-side, Wal-Mart has a remarkably impressive Sustainability Agenda. (Thanks, Gloria)

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .