Businessweek has a review of some of the papers from the upcoming Global Insight conference:
In the article, BW links to copies of several papers.
Wal-Mart's decision to put itself under the academic microscope is a brave one. The Global Insight study may end up eclipsing all the others, since it will have internal data Wal-Mart has long declined to release. But given the negative conclusions from the outside studies, the entire conference is looking more like a big risk for a major corporation to take.
All I can say is that Wal-Mart promised objective research while opponents sneered. Wal-Mart seems to be holding to its promise. Will Liza Featherstone take back her baseless accusation that Wal-Mart was tyring to "buy the approval of the intellectual elite"?
Posted by Kevin on October, 26 2005 at 10:37 AM
