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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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1436: The First Pure Chinese Luxury Fashion Brand
Keinan, Anat; Crener, Sandrine; Chang, Hannah H.Case HBS-517100-EMarketingThe case traces the birth of 1436, a new luxury brand specialized in cashmere garments. It describes how this venture emerged organically out of a combination of manufacturing and retail expertise with the ambition of creating the first pure Chinese luxury brand. The brand name was inspired by the measurement of superfine baby cashmere fibre (14 micrometers in diameter and 36 millimeters in length). It is estimated that only 2 out of 1,000 grams ...Starting at €8.20