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The Economic Impact of the Japanese Disasters

Harvard Business Review

Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide. 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.

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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. The Ford story doesn’t add up , if you assume that Ford believed that his move alone was enough to raise overall demand for cars. As I tell my students, rule one is: Don’t crash the company.

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