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The Economic Impact of the Japanese Disasters

Harvard Business Review

The destruction will surely cost Japan many times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide. on Tuesday.

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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

Harvard Business Review

We can’t expect managers to focus primarily on anything other than building a thriving, profitable enterprise. It has such a high share of the market that when there’s a problem with fake news it becomes, in large part, Facebook’s problem. Society, on the other hand, might pay substantial costs.

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