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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Crisis Management Failures in Japan's Reactors and the BP Spill

Harvard Business Review

A potentially catastrophic technological problem, an incomplete crisis response plan, misleading early information, divided private and public authority, ineffective initial actions. But, it also describes what happened after the April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

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How the BP Commission Dropped the Ball

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the Commission's focus in the report is on the immediate causes of the explosion and on the individual and collective failures of BP (owner), Transocean (rig operator) and Haliburton (construction services) to assess and mitigate immediate risks — and to have effective crisis response plans. (It

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80% of Companies Don’t Know If Their Products Contain Conflict Minerals

Harvard Business Review

This regulation came as a result of concerns that the exploitation and trade of conflict minerals by armed groups was helping to finance conflict in the DRC region and contributing to its emergency humanitarian crisis. It’s no wonder so many consumers have no idea where their favorite brands come from. We wanted to find out.