- 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
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:
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 .
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Even women who earn overwhelmingly positive performance reviews are told that they have ‘personality flaws,’ a new study finds. The double...
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"Why I don’t talk about race with White people." Read more in Medium .
