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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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Subsidies and the China Price
Haley, Usha C.V.; Haley, George T.Article HBS-F0806C-EService and Operations ManagementNew research suggests that Chinese companies' price advantage comes not from low-cost labor but from massive government subsidies. That finding has major implications for foreign firms that compete with, or source from, those companies.Starting at €8.20