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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 In that year alone, a DMA study showed 59% of multichannel marketers had increased their catalog circulation from the year before. This combination gets the right catalogs into the right hands.

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Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political

Harvard Business Review

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. But competition with low-cost foreign labor has suppressed wage growth for low-skilled workers. For the rest, the gains are less obvious.