For many stores, Black Friday is now a week-long sale catering to the needs of both online and in-store shoppers. Professor Saibal Ray talks to Global News about the rising popularity of Black Friday sales and how the Bensadoun School of Retail Management is preparing the next generation of retailers to enhance the customer鈥檚 journey.
Following the announced closure of 34 Rona and Lowes stores across Canada, Executive Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management Charles de Brabant joins City News to weigh in on the slow growth rate of the Quebec and Canadian markets.
Professor Maxime Cohen has partnered with Professor Samuel Dahan, Director of the Conflict Analytics Lab, to support the development of an AI-powered dispute resolution tool that will provide legal predictions and negotiation support for self-represented litigants.
At the 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Professor Maxime Cohen, with co-authors Ruben Lobel and Georgia Perakis, was awarded the Best Operations Management Paper in Management Science Award within the past three years for their paper 鈥淭he Impact of Demand Uncertainty on Consumer Subsidies for Green Technology Adoption鈥. This paper also received an honourable mention for the best publication in environment and sustainability award.
New research from Prof Yu Ma suggests there are opportunities for marketers to encourage healthier shopping among warehouse store customers.
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New research from Prof Mehmet Gumus explores聽the challenges that companies face when monitoring product quality in distant factories, and how choosing the right contract structure can incentivize suppliers to deliver higher quality products.
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Charles de Brabant, Executive Director of 看片视频 University鈥檚 Bensadoun School of Retail Management, explains why some brick and mortar retailers survive while others collapse as e-commerce rises.
Charles de Brabant, Executive Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management, comments on the ebbs and flows of Ste-Catherine Street 鈥 widely regarded as the heart of retail in Montreal.
Desjardins Group has elected five new members to its board of directors, including Marie-Jos茅e Lamothe, Professor of Practice for the Bensadoun School of Retail Management and President of Tandem International.
In an opinion piece for The Globe & Mail, Dean Isabelle Bajeux spotlights some of the innovative practices that retailers are using to remain relevant amid a shifting retail landscape.
If there is a common theme in all of this, for Dean Bajeux, it is the focus on improving the shopping experience.
While most will agree with making ethical food choices in theory, it remains difficult to sway consumers to change their buying behaviors.
For Professor Saibal Ray, Academic Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management, the benefits must be apparent and immediate for the average shopper.
The key, he goes on to explain, is finding ways to save people time and money.
Professor Nathan Yang will share his research as an invited speaker at the eTail 2019 Conference. The conference will take place over May 7-9, 2019 in Toronto.
An article in Bloomberg takes a closer look at the ways in which the Bensadoun School of Retail Management will prepare students to address successfully the retail challenges that are unfolding on a global scale.
鈥淭oday鈥檚 retailers are facing massive disruption as well as complicated social issues,鈥 says Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, Dean of 看片视频鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management. 鈥淚n this environment, the traditional siloed way of thinking will no longer work.鈥
With 2019 on the horizon, Forbes has compiled a list of nine emerging retail trends to look out for; one of which will include the rise of the circular economy across operations, according to Aldo Bensadoun (BCom鈥64), Executive Chairman and Founder of The Aldo Group Inc.
Marie-Jos茅e Lamothe, Professor of Practice at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management, has been named to the Canada Revenue Agency鈥檚 new advisory panel on service- an initiative to better understand the needs of Canadians and ensure an optimized client experience.