Wharton Retail Network (WhRN)
Chair:
Susan Teplitz, WG'86
WhRN@whartonny.com
About the Wharton Retail Network (WhRN)
Retail encompasses numerous categories spanning a broad range of products and services, including but not limited to automotive, electronics, food and beverage, financial services and clothing/apparel. Each has its own characteristics, challenges, opportunities, and very often corporate culture. Although many may be shared, others are unique to their sector/sub-sector.
The WhRN will segment these sectors initially to those with sufficient common interest/challenges and opportunities to help create a cohesive group. We will start with Fashion/Luxury to be defined as Clothing and Accessories, which will include but may not be limited to Clothing, Footwear, Eyewear, Jewelry, and Fragrances.
The WhRN/Fashion/Luxury seeks to engage professionals in the retail of Apparel and Accessories or firms that support them. We will try to structure small gatherings of 20-30 individuals each to explore innovation and new thinking in areas of interest to them such as:
Susan Teplitz, WG'86
WhRN@whartonny.com
About the Wharton Retail Network (WhRN)
Retail encompasses numerous categories spanning a broad range of products and services, including but not limited to automotive, electronics, food and beverage, financial services and clothing/apparel. Each has its own characteristics, challenges, opportunities, and very often corporate culture. Although many may be shared, others are unique to their sector/sub-sector.
The WhRN will segment these sectors initially to those with sufficient common interest/challenges and opportunities to help create a cohesive group. We will start with Fashion/Luxury to be defined as Clothing and Accessories, which will include but may not be limited to Clothing, Footwear, Eyewear, Jewelry, and Fragrances.
The WhRN/Fashion/Luxury seeks to engage professionals in the retail of Apparel and Accessories or firms that support them. We will try to structure small gatherings of 20-30 individuals each to explore innovation and new thinking in areas of interest to them such as:
- Integration/convergence of digital with store front retail
- Advertising and communication/social media platforms Technology to improve productivity
- Store design
- Real estate/new developing areas for retail in major markets
- Integrate latest learning from The Baker Center in areas of interest to membership