In many industries, long payment cycles are an unfortunate reality. Waiting 30 or 45 days to receive payment is widespread in the business world, and it can take much longer. This can create cash flow ...

As we look back on another peaks and waves season, I’m once again left wondering if as an industry we’ve become too reliant on a lever – discounting – that in an ideal world, we’d only ever pull in ...

The economic trend for nearly every restaurant operator in 2022 was to raise prices, with most companies taking mid-single digit-- or sometimes double-digit menu price increases in order to keep pace ...

Each customer has a set price they are willing to pay for your product. Unfortunately, it's rarely the same as the one advertised on your site. That's because there are three main types of customers: ...

The curbing of impulses to which we are led by forethought averts physical disaster at the cost of worry, and general lack of joy. [. . .] In this respect, therefore, I am not convinced that there has ...

Alexandre Vauthier, Roland Mouret, Emporio Armani Kids, Ralph Lauren and Palm Angels had the biggest increases in discounted stock across top multi-brand luxury sites in the first quarter of 2021, ...

When two different coalitions of industry players announced their proposals to overhaul the fashion calendar last week, both groups addressed the industry’s discounting problem. The coalitions called ...

“Consumers are definitely feeling anxious about the future. Whether it’s the pandemic, which is making people hesitant to go out in public to crowded places, or they’re worried about their jobs or the ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...