Top retail students from across the country are nominated to participate in the American Express-NRF Foundation “Aspire2Retail” Intercollegiate Challenge by their college or university’s program director. Selected students are then assigned to one area of study in a retail case study problem — ranging from sourcing to merchandising. Team members must work together remotely and [...]
The NRF Student Association is making sure to keep the best and the brightest students. A member of the ”Aspire 2 Retail” Intercollegiate Challenge team, Florida State University‘s Tamara Smith is focused on her next goal — a career in retail. Read more to learn about Tamara’s experience and her dream job. Why do you [...]
In late December, we interviewed Lindsay Godbout, a junior at University of Arizona, and one of retail’s “Future Faces.” We continue our features on retail’s emerging talent with Rachel Wakefield, a marketing major at Georgia Southern University. Rachel’s business skills and love of fashion not only make her a good fit for the retail industry, [...]
The winning team of the 4th annual aspire2retail Intercollegiate Retail Challenge presented on Monday afternoon during the “Madame, Your Phone is Shopping” breakout session at NRF’s BIG Show. As a fellow participant in this challenge (on another team), I know firsthand that the six students had a lot of work to do and little time [...]
Continuing with NRF Foundation’s Collegiate Blogging series about the BIG Show, Molly McKenna, a junior at the University of Michigan describes her experience in the following profile. Name: Molly McKenna College/University: University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business Graduation Year: 2011 Degree: Bachelors of Business Administration Why did you attend NRF’s BIG Show? I learned about NRF’s BIG [...]
