Why Retailers Are Rethinking Risk

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Sep 23, 202611:29Business

Retailers face a fundamental problem: they often have to bet on what consumers will want before they actually buy it. Could changing who takes that risk transform the industry? John Zhang, Professor of Marketing at the W...

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