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- Wal-Mart CEO's Today Show Comments More Cautious Than Cautionary
- Mike Duke, new CEO of Wal-Mart, appeared on the Today show this morning and some coverage of his comments might indicate he is predicting a prolonged economic downturn and weakening retail trends. But that’s not what he said. His response, when asked by Today Show host Matt...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
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- Duke headlines Arkansas chapter event: Wal-Mart leader recounts a varied career.(Focus)
- IIE's Northwest Arkansas chapter recently joined the growing list of local chapters to come out of dormancy. The chapter celebrated its rebirth with an event headlined by Mike Duke, president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores. IIE's Northwest Arkansas chapter recently joined the growing ...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Time Catches Up to Project Impact but Wal-Mart Forges Ahead with Family Fun
- Time has discovered Project Impact, although a little late, but, still, the magazine has made a start at catching up to the sequence of initiatives that Wal-Mart is launching around the goal of becoming the go-to retailer for the frugal consumer. It’s not a necessarily a formal...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Walmart Readies Smaller Stores for Smarter Growth
- The productivity loop is back at Walmart, and that could have a big impact on retailing if the company accomplishes its goal of maintaining store growth while cutting critical costs. As Mike Duke, Walmart CEO, described it at Walmart’s analyst meeting last week, the productivity loop is...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Prepared for anything, the Duke coach's way
- Beyond Basketball Coach K's Keywords for Success By Mike Krzyzewski with Jamie K. Spatola, Warner Business Books, 192 pp. $17.99 Reviewed by Cecil Johnson The Duke University basketball team was down by one point to Kentucky in a game in 1992 in which a trip to the Final Four of...
- Research articles 2006-12-17
- Wal-Mart Focuses on Retaining Customers Beyond Recession
- Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke is looking beyond the recession, placing emphasis in the company’s first quarter conference call on its ability to retain high-income customers won during the recession. Not that he’s predicting a rapid economic rebound. Rather, he noted that business improvements Wal-Mart has made and...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Wal-Mart Meeting Raises a Cheer It Hopes Reaches Investors
- Once a year, in a gala atmosphere, Wal-Mart conducts its annual meeting, trotting out stars, featuring cheering associates, touting another annum of expansion and, in recent years, dealing with a source of frustration, the company’s share price. Despite gains in revenues, comparable store sales and profits during...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- New Frugality Is Settling In, Nielsen Contends
- We’ve heard a lot about the New Frugality lately, but is it fact, myth or hype? Walmart’s Mike Duke helped establish the idea that the American consumer would be fundamentally changed by experiences in the recession, and he posited a state, referred to as the “new normal,â€...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Wal-Mart sees slowing its growth as positive
- NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s CEO and President Mike Duke promised investors Thursday that the retailer's aggressive price-cutting will not hurt its stock price, even as the company issued a modest forecast for U.S. expansion this year and next. "We absolutely will have price leadership while at the same...
- News items 2009-10-22
- Lectures, News, Music From Duke University Now Available through Apple's iTunes.
- Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., May 30 AScribe Newswire -- Internet users around the world can now download, for free, lectures, music, news segments and other materials from Duke University via the Duke on iTunes U site. The site can be entered...
- Research articles 2007-05-30
- NCAA Men's: NCAA Game Summary - UCLA vs. Duke.
- Nov 30, 2002 The Sports Network via COMTEX (Saturday, November 30th) ...
- Research articles 2002-11-30
- Duke president specifies course of action
- DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead late Wednesday outlined five specific actions he plans to take against the school's embattled men's lacrosse team. More than 12 hours after Brodhead canceled the remainder of the team's season and Duke athletics director Joe Alleva accepted the resignation of...
- Research articles 2006-04-06
- Coach K and Duke changing recruiting philosophy
- DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski loves the luxury of coaching NBA stars as he guides the U.S. men's basketball team to the Beijing Olympics. If he were the kind of guy who dwelled on things, he might also be cringing at how many of those...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- Wal-Mart makes changes.(appointments of executives )(Brief Article)
- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has promoted John Menzer, president and CEO of Wal-Mart International, and Mike Duke, president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores, U.S.A., to vice chairman positions. Eduardo Castro-Wright, executive vice president and chief ope Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has...
- Research articles 2005-10-03
- Duke's Mike Krzyzewski to speak at Cameron University leadership
- Mike Krzyzewski, head basketball coach at Duke University, will be the featured speaker for a leadership forum sponsored by Cameron University at noon Aug. 24 at Fort Sill in Lawton.
- Research articles 2005-07-27
- Ex-Duke assistants-turned-coaches stumble
- Duke, when last seen, was being manhandled in the Atlanta Regional semifinals by LSU, which barely belonged on the same floor with UCLA on Saturday. Farther down the Mike Krzyzewski coaching tree, the season was downright nasty. Nine of the Hall of Famer's former assistants are head coaches, eight...
- Research articles 2006-04-03
- Duke's Men's Basketball Coach Teams Up With Sportscapsule to Encourage Videotaping of Youth Sports
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 5, 2000 Mike Krzyzewski Appeals to Parents and Coaches to Tape, Save and Share Precious Sports Moments Duke University's men's head basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski, announced today that he is teaming up with Sportscapsule, an online video service that for the...
- Research articles 2000-09-05
- Consumers Intend To Spend But Remain Cautious of Where
- Consumer intent to purchase is rising a study by research firm NPD Group suggests, but the sales benefit from that may be limited to the very same bargain retailers that have been most successful in the recession thus far. NPD’s Retail Response Indicator, which measures consumer spending...
- Blog posts 2009-06-07
- Food Deflation Hurts Wal-Mart Comps as Consumer Adapts to Recession
- Food â€" and deflation in the sector -- had a lot to do with why Wal-Mart suffered declining comparable store sales in the latest quarter completed. While 1.3 percent more shoppers visited its stores in the 13-week sales period, comparable store sales declined 1.5 percent at Wal-Mart...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- The New Normal Won't Emerge as a Walmart World
- The normal is upon us, but will the new normal be a Walmart world? A whole series of posts in this blog have discussed the recent Walmart WMT analyst meeting, and only covered the first 90 minutes of a two-day event and just detailed what the company...
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
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