Webinar: Rebooted - Forum on Strategic Retail Management
Open discussion with participants about the challenges and issues they face in the retail industry.
Facilitated by: Jie Zhang
Date
February 24, 2021 - 3:00pm
COVID-19
Webinar: Rebooted - Utilizing Data Analytics to Build A Winning Retail Business
Utilizing Data Analytics to Build A Winning Retail Business
This session will cover retail performance metrics and how to utilize them to diagnose problems and improve retail decisions. It will focus on those performance metrics that can be implemented using a retailer's existing inventory management and bookkeeping infrastructure (so that they can be easily adopted by SMR's). We will also discuss more advanced metrics and frameworks that have been utilized by sophisticated retail operations and the additional data/resources required.
Date
February 1, 2021 - 3:00pm
Webinar: Rebooted - Retail Industry Trends & Implications
Retail industry trends and implications for small and Mid-sized Retailers (SMR)
This session will focus on 1) the "big picture" and major trends of the industry, more or less organized by different retail sectors; 2) the implications for SMR's; 3) discuss strategies to address these challenges from the perspective of SMR's.
Facilitated by: Jie Zhang
Date
January 27, 2021 - 3:00pm
Five Pandemic Lessons for Shoppers
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Lockdowns, high-profile bankruptcies, surplus stock spilling out of backrooms – the pandemic has rattled the already struggling retail sector.
The Pandemic Is Pushing Women, People of Color Out of Their Careers
SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Just weeks into the pandemic, Nicole M. Coomber began noticing a worrying trend. Upwardly mobile professionals across her social media networks were opting to step back from their careers, overwhelmed by the new demands of their work lives and home lives.
Busboys, Poets and Pivoting During COVID
Andy Shallal, MBA ’19, has seen first-hand how COVID-19 is impacting the restaurant industry across the greater D.C. region and beyond. Despite the challenges, Shallal believes it’s not time for restaurant and business owners to throw in the towel just yet.
How Consumers Responded to COVID-19
The unpredictability of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on people’s daily lives has facilitated changes ranging from social interactions to purchasing behavior. Adjusting to the many disruptions may seem difficult, but people are more adaptive than you might think, says new research from Maryland Smith.
Helping U.S. Hospitals Shrink COVID-19’s Spread
Before most U.S. universities decided to close for the second half of the 2020 spring semester due to COVID-19, Associate Professor Toby Egan in the School of Public Policy and the Robert H. Smith School of Business, anticipated that expanding breakouts of COVID-19 in Europe and Asia would soon put the U.S. in a difficult situation.
Webinar: Maximizing Your Social Media Efforts
In this webinar, we’ll discuss selecting the social media outlets that resonate with your target audience. As the number of social media platforms expands, it becomes more confusing for the business owner to decide where to invest their time and resources in the social arena. We will look at established and emerging social media platforms to better understand who is using them and how businesses can make the most of their social media efforts on each SM platform.
Date
October 28, 2020 - 3:00pm
Webinar: B2B Websites
As the general population has gravitated towards e-commerce, industrial buyers have come to expect more from B2B sites. We’ll look at how you can make your B2B site more engaging and informative for procurement officers. With millennials entering the supply chain field, we’ll also explore what content and platforms they are seeking to guarantee a smart B2B purchase.
Date
October 14, 2020 - 3:00pm
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