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Three Unexpected Ways to Help with Disaster Recovery

Harvard Business Review

Further, once the immediate crisis or disaster has subsided, Thomson Reuters Foundation provides lawyers and legal resources for free to NGOs through two programs, Trustlaw and Trustlaw Connect. EIS provided critical information on how to contact search-and-rescue teams, where to receive food and water, and how to register missing loved ones.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

And Michael Porter and Mark Kramer point to a big pot of gold for businesses that properly internalize the social consequences of their decisions instead of incorrectly externalizing them. For an example, reconsider the financial crisis. Nor was the government — beyond Greenspan and the Fed — blameless in the run-up to the crisis.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

And Michael Porter and Mark Kramer point to a big pot of gold for businesses that properly internalize the social consequences of their decisions instead of incorrectly externalizing them. For an example, reconsider the financial crisis. Nor was the government — beyond Greenspan and the Fed — blameless in the run-up to the crisis.

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Was Marx Right?

Harvard Business Review

Not bad, I'd say: the last three decades have in fact been characterized by global crises of what you might crudely call overproduction (think: too little demand chasing too many disposable widgets, resulting in a massive global debt crisis, as vanishing middle classes took on more and more debt to compensate for stagnant real wages).

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Why Business is Stuck on Income Inequality

Harvard Business Review

The title comes from Alan Greenspan's now-famous admission to a Congressional committee in 2008 — "I have found a flaw in the model that defines how the world works" — and as best I can tell it posits that extreme income inequality was a precipitating factor behind the financial crisis. It certainly left an impression on Sorrell.

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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

There is a growing global awareness that we are not measuring developmental or humanitarian impacts correctly. Look, however, at the job market in any developed economy that had no recession following the financial crisis, such as Australia, and you see a different story. But all this has been changing.

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How Our Economy Was Overrun by Monsters and What to Do About It

Harvard Business Review

Throw in a broken education system that's not just unaffordable, but slightly pointless, a frightening tax bill for their parents and grandparents' profligacy, and a global youth unemployment crisis , and it becomes clear why economists are increasingly dubbing today's young a " lost generation.".