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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism. At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games."

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. Change the Rules.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

Integrating comprehensive services will require significant changes in culture, infrastructure, training, regulation, and financing. Although telemedicine has yet to be widely implemented in pediatrics, a recent survey by Nemours Children’s Health System suggests that there’s a growing desire for using it among caregivers.