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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. Will they once again fall out of fashion at the first sign of softness in the market?

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Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political

Harvard Business Review

And by shifting from defined benefit to defined contribution pension schemes, they have avoided the risks from increasingly long-lived retirees and persistently low interest rates. In other words, business leaders have been dealing with the direct, market-based risks presented by major economic, technological, and demographic trends.