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Preparing for a Pandemic (Spanish version)
Staples, Jeffrey; Dowell, Scott F.; Bresee, Joseph S.; Nohria, Nitin; Bennis, Warren G.; Fischhoff, Baruch; MacGowan, William; Brilliant, Larry; Susser, Peter; Cooper, Sherry; Dobson, Wendy; Golden, Brian R.Article HBS-F0605AThis month, all of Harvard Business Review's Forethought contributions address avian influenza, its potential to become a pandemic, and the red flags this possibility raises for businesses. Jeffrey Staples warns that the H5N1 strain of the avian flu represents a new class of global threat and urges companies to plan accordingly. Scott F. Dowell and Joseph S. Bresee show how mutations of the virus could boost its ability to spread from person to p...Starting at €8.20
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Zhang Xin and the Emergence of Chinese Philanthropy
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Yang, AmandaCase HBS-317045-EThis case examines the recent emergence of Chinese business philanthropy through the case of the SOHO China Foundation established by real estate wife and husband moguls Zhang Zin and Pan Shiyi. After exploring how they became billionaires through investing in the booming China real estate market in the 1990s, the case discusses their decision to found the Foundation in the context of the belated emergence of philanthropy in China, and the contin...Starting at €8.20