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Why the Print Catalog Is Back in Style

Harvard Business Review

According to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), catalog mailings grew in 2013 to 11.9 ” But then the Great Recession hit, and retailers looking to trim their expenditures cut catalog budgets. According to the DMA, in 2012 mailings dropped to its lowest level since it began collecting annual data in 2001.

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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

There have been far-reaching business after-effects from the attacks on September 11, 2001. In the fourth quarter of 2001, there were 408 extended mass layoff events, involving 114,711 workers, directly or indirectly attributed to the attacks. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

million in 2013, up from 16 million two years before. million independent workers and the number has been growing at 5% a year, this was either a bold bet that the Affordable Care Act is going to drive/lure a lot more people out of full-time jobs than the Congressional Budget Office is predicting , or silly marketing hyperbole.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 3 of 4

Strategy Driven

Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

Congress had a moderately successful run with budget pre-commitment mechanisms in the 1980s and 1990s, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the successor known as " paygo." In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years.