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Monitor, Libya, and the Perils of a Blurred-Line World

Harvard Business Review

Yet look through the 22-page " Proposal for Expanding the Dialogue around the Ideas of Muammar Qadhafi " that Monitor prepared in 2007, and it sure sounds like public relations: As is the case of many individuals who are prominent actors in the world, Qadhafi is well known but is poorly understood, particularly in the West.

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Don’t Trust Your Company’s Reputation to the Quants

Harvard Business Review

But they also know that reputations can damaged by more than the operational risks that can be managed with functional redundancies, or the financial risks that can be countered by hedging, investing in futures markets, and global currency diversification. We’d like to propose a solution. What – or who – is a Qualt?