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Fast Company
September 2006
Keith H. Hammonds |
American Girl American Girl is, at most times, a quite breathtakingly attractive amalgam of education and entertainment, all of it rooted in storytelling.   |
Fast Company
April 2010
Kate Rockwood |
Big Breakthroughs in the History of Toys for Girls Barbie was the first. Take a look at other big breakthroughs in the history of toys for girls. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2004
Rich Duprey |
Barbie Belts One Out Bad financial results, bad press, down-on-its-luck stock. It's a value investor's feeding trough! Yet Mattel signed a record deal and dominates the "Hot Dozen" toy list amid a turnaround. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
How To: Win Over Her Parents Every parent wants what's best for their daughter. So let your actions, not just words, represent you. |
U.S. CPSC
March 30, 2006 |
Children's Jewelry Sold at American Girl Stores Recalled for Lead Poisoning Hazard The recalled jewelry contains high levels of lead, which is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects. |
BusinessWeek
May 7, 2007
Christopher Palmeri |
Barbie Goes From Vinyl To Virtual Mattel is betting its online Barbie Girl will hold kids who've outgrown real dolls. |
Salon.com
April 24, 2000
J.B. Orenstein, M.D. |
Tales from the emergency room She was 15 years old and pregnant -- and her mother was 275 pounds of fury. |
Reason
August 2002
Charles Paul Freund |
Dolled Up Authoritarian regimes play make-believe with Iran's new "national doll." |
U.S. CPSC
November 21, 2002 |
Disney Store Recalls Monsters, Inc. Character Plush Dolls The recalled 12- inch doll is a blue monster named Sulley that is holding a 6-inch girl doll, named Boo. Both are characters in the 2001 animated film, Monsters, Inc. The Boo doll's hair has ponytail holders that could detach, posing a choking hazard for young children. |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2005
M.D. Mitchell |
Mattel: So Cheap, It's Scary With the toy maker's stock near five-year lows, is it finally time to buy? |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2005
M.D. Mitchell |
American Girl Taunts Barbie Although Barbie will probably never be replaced by another doll, sales of the icon have dwindled over the past few years, leading some to wonder what's going on at Mattel. Is it a good time to buy Mattel before the upcoming holiday season? |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Mattel's Operation Barbie The toy maker is trying to build off the strength of its Barbie brand to delve into several other products, including clothing for adult women that could launch this fall. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Mattel Makes the Grade Toy maker Mattel has reported improved second-quarter earnings. However, trouble on the horizon includes weakness in the company's quintessential Barbie brand. |
Fast Company
April 2010
Kate Rockwood |
How Spin Master Mixes Tech and Toys -- And Keeps Mattel Looking Over Its Shoulder How Spin Master Toys created the hit Liv dolls, a thoroughly modern marriage of tech, storytelling, and 21st-century marketing that has industry giant Mattel looking over its shoulder. |
CRM
October 2012
Paul Greenberg |
Customer Experience Finally...and Once Again It's fascinating to me that starting a little over a year ago, the concept of how to think about customer experience finally began to rear its lovely head. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Even Barbie Can Be Hacked Toy manufacturers are learning a hard lesson about Wi-Fi-enabled dolls, action figures, and building sets: They can be hacked pretty easily. |
The Motley Fool
January 29, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Kiss and Mattel Mattel wraps up the year with another strong quarter. Investors, take note. |
U.S. CPSC
June 22, 2004 |
Lakeshore Learning Materials Recall of Doll Sets The head and boot of the dolls can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Barbie Girls Aren't Plastic Barbie dolls may not be selling, but BarbieGirls.com is. |
Salon.com
July 5, 2000
Stephen Lemons |
Blue Girl's blue period The bluest performance artist around has the paint-and-nipple market cornered. |
U.S. CPSC
September 1, 2011 |
Dolls Recalled by Pottery Barn Kids Due To Strangulation Hazard The hair on the Chloe and Sophie dolls may contain loops that are large enough to fit around a child's head and neck, and the headband on the Audrey doll, if loosened, can form a loop that fits around a child's head and neck. |
Reason
May 2005
Holiday Dmitri |
Barbie's Taiwanese Homecoming A plastic, fantastic tale of globalization: Barbie is revered like a messiah in Taishan, a municipality nine miles southwest of Taipei that the blonde doll transformed from an agricultural village of 5,000 to a manufacturing center nearly the size of Boston. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2005
Nathan Parmelee |
New Challenges for Mattel? Sales growth is in place, but Mattel loses ground in margins. However, there is still a solid value thesis in place because the company generates plenty of free cash flow. |
Fast Company
Lindsay LaVine |
Lessons From Inside The $800 Million Girl Scout Cookie Selling Empire For 97 years, Girl Scouts across America have participated in the cookie sales program, which has raised nearly $800 million each of the last two years. Getting your Thin Mint fix should also make you feel good about the future of women in leadership roles. |
Investment Advisor
January 2008
Olivia Mellan |
Splitting Heirs When parents and children are involved in divorce-related issues, it will be difficult (if not impossible) for an investment advisor to recommend financial strategies if they are still nursing unresolved wounds, anger, feelings of betrayal, or a thirst for revenge. |
Wired
September 2000
Erik Davis |
Congratulations, It's A Bot! It was only a matter of time before toy companies turned from plush interactive hairballs to digikinetic babies. Yours will be arriving shortly. |
The Family Room
November 2000
Audrey Okaneko |
Protect Your Child With A Password Our children are equally precious to us and need our protection. But how do we protect them? When my kids were small we established a password, or codeword that only they and I knew. We chose something they could remember, yet not something easily guessed by a stranger... |
Salon.com
October 27, 2000
M.G. Lord |
En garde, Princess! For the first time ever, Barbie may have a challenger who can kick her anorexic butt. At least that's what her unauthorized biographer thinks... |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Come On Barbie, Let's Go Party Investors, for the girls who aren't old enough for News Corp.'s MySpace (and the parents who want to keep it that way), Mattel has a shot to cultivate a new online audience and get Barbie back on the map with the launch of BarbieGirls.com. |
AskMen.com
Chris Illuminati |
How To: Evaluate Your Daughter's Date It's the day you've been preparing for -- and dreading -- for years. Your daughter, your baby girl, your little princess, is now of the dating age. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Bratz vs. Barbie, Round 2.0 Forget the big screen. Bratz are coming to the small screen, too. The allure of creating an avatar and mingling in a virtual community is all too real. There are too many competitors, going after a finite number of kids. Investors, take note. |
CIO
June 15, 2004
Thomas Wailgum |
Selling Girl Scouts on Science Women make up 46 percent of the U.S. workforce, but only 22 percent of scientists and engineers, according to the National Science Foundation. The Girl Scouts are working with corporate and government agencies to change that. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2009
Kristin Graham |
The Rally Isn't Done for Good So far, we've seen an impressive rally in the markets. Yet one long-time money manager sees the potential for another 15-20% in gains even from the recent highs. |
The Motley Fool
July 10, 2008
Dayana Yochim |
Get Ready for Baby's First Credit Card The author explains the concept of a credit card to a 6-year-old. Well, she tries to. |
Smithsonian
February 2007
Katy June-Friesen |
The Real Dreamgirls How girl groups changed American music. |
DailyCandy
August 3, 2004 |
Found in Translation Beijing Doll, the novel by Chun Sue that sold thousands of copies in China before the government banned it, is now hitting U.S. shores. |
U.S. CPSC
March 20, 2003 |
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Recall of Woody Dolls The Woody doll's clothing has buttons that can detach, posing a choking hazard for young children. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2007
Steven Mallas |
Mattel's Doing Well Mattel toys around with a pretty decent second quarter. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Bratz Pout Over Mattel Settlement The battle over Bratz has been something of a Pyrrhic victory for Mattel. While the jurors in the trial sided with the toymaker, the damage done to its own iconic Barbie brand has been substantial. |
BusinessWeek
September 18, 2008 |
How Brands Become 'Girl Approved' Money can't buy you love with millennial girls. In fact, scoring brand equity with Gen Y is getting a whole lot harder. |
The Motley Fool
February 21, 2006
Philip Durell |
Barbies Gone Wild? Mattel needs to let Barbie go wild to make the company a worthwhile investment at today's price of $17 and change. In the meantime, Mattel continues to produce a ton of free cash flow, pays a 2.9% dividend yield, and continues to buy back shares. |
The Motley Fool
January 7, 2010
Jennifer Schonberger |
Here's Why 2010 Will Be Another Good Year for the Stock Market BlackRock CIO Bob Doll Gives his predictions for the year ahead and for different segments of the market |
Inc.
January 2006
Cara Cannella |
Welcome to the Doll Factory The good news: Hollywood wants to feature your factory in a movie. The bad news: The plot is a killer. |
Wired
August 2002
Sonia Zjawinski |
Stepford Child She speaks when spoken to, she's a teacher's pet ... heck, she's got a photographic memory. Chips and cams and computer programs -- that's what Cindy Smart is made of. |
The Motley Fool
January 2, 2008
Rimmy Malhotra |
Standing Out by Standing Apart The key to value investing is finding something that is selling cheap because not everyone has jumped on the bandwagon yet. But that alone isn't enough. Read on for more. |
Financial Planning
January 5, 2008
Jim Grote |
High Net Worth: Practice Profile: The Peacemaker Kanaly Trust's David Doll tries to bridge his financial advisory clients' generation gaps. |
AskMen.com
Mr. Mafioso |
Street Lessons For Life Tips to managing and preventing some of life's little mafioso surprises... |
Fast Company
November 1999 |
My Favorite Bookmarks - Carley Roney Picks from the cofounder and VP of the Knot. |
ifeminists
October 18, 2006
McCormick & Sacks |
America's Father Hunger Russert's new book Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons goes beyond that of a sentimental journey. It's success is a testament to the hunger so many Americans feel for what recent generations have lost -- their fathers. |
