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London Succeeds in Its Olympic Trials

Harvard Business Review

million cost of the tower has been covered by the Mittal Family, with a small subsidy from the London Authority looking to drive tourism post-Games. As Rob Clarke, head of Human Resources for London 2012, said, "We hope a legacy of our Games will be to create a more sustainable model for hosting the Games."

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The Gulf Spill: BP Still Doesn’t Get It

In the CEO Afterlife

More recently, the BP-sponsored Gulf Coast tourism TV campaign has implied that everything is back to normal. Early on, BP ran some print advertising reiterating its responsibility to learn from the spill and share findings to ensure that the tragedy never happens again. No doubt, substantial reparative progress has been made.