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COPYRIGHT 2006 Fairchild Publications, Inc.
Byline: Sharon Edelson
NEW YORK - Elizabeth Schweitzer is the type of young person the retail industry wants to recruit and nurture.
A senior at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, she will graduate in May with a bachelor of science degree in economics. She has focused on retailing through the Jay H. Baker Retailing Initiative, a curriculum established in 2003 through a $10 million gift from the former president of Kohl's, who graduated from Wharton in 1956.
Schweitzer, who has dreamed of a retailing career since she was a 13-year-old salesgirl at a Larchmont, N.Y., children's boutique, took courses on supply chain management, merchandising, buying and store design. Her senior thesis was a comparative analysis of Target, Kohl's and J.C. Penney.
"I have a lot of mentors who are in the upper echelons of retail management," Schweitzer said. "I've learned from them that's it's really important to be a great merchant, so I'm starting the executive training program at Bloomingdale's in June. Eventually, I'd like to run a department store or specialty chain."
Contrast Schweitzer's experience with that of another Wharton alum, Brendan Hoffman, class of '97. Hoffman, the president and chief...
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