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Setting Strategy in Egypt's (and Other) Shifting Sands: A Four-Part Approach

Harvard Business Review

They will recall, for example, how ITT was implicated in overthrowing the Allende government in Chile in the early 1970s; and they will note the not-unfrequent practice of firms bribing dictators to secure key business concessions. In terms of scenario planning , firms would think about alternative paths.