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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. Unfortunately, the follow-through never transpired after the media coverage died down. My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. Thinking Through the Strategies. Thus, lawsuits flew in the company’s face. by Hank Moore.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support.

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What Great Social Media Campaigns Get Right

Harvard Business Review

While its social media KPI’s soared, its business suffered. Today, their annual conference brings together well-known corporate innovators, such as Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and author Daniel Pink, to mix with an eclectic assortment of social entrepreneurs and devise solutions to society’s thorniest problems.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

Directors in a range of industries have been stung by media reports that political intermediaries used corporate money to help fund causes or candidates adverse to a firm’s business interests or its espoused values and positions. Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company.