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The Economic Impact of the Japanese Disasters

Harvard Business Review

But even as we focus on immediate human needs, we cannot avoid recognizing — and coping with — the long economic shadow cast by this disaster. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide.

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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

Harvard Business Review

And Mark Zuckerberg told investors that Facebook would be making changes to its platform that would help users in the long-term, even though, he warned, in the short-term the result would be users spending less time on it. Fink, to his credit, has been talking about long-termism for years.)

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