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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics. Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

And adverse living conditions and poverty are perhaps the most pervasive negative influences on adult health , leading to 20% to 50% higher adult mortality even when, in adulthood, individuals are no longer living in poverty or in polluted or unsafe environments. Health information and other technology. pediatric primary care remain.