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...unusual for private companies to deploy outside p.r. flacks when they get into trouble. The biggest firms can charge as much as $40,000 a month to deal with fallout. AIG is now 80% owned by the government, which has pumped in public funds to allow the company to cover its claims and not bring down the world banking system with it. But some of that money appears to be financing damage control. Just how much, is the kind of question that publicly financed bodies are obligated to answer. When he was asked for AIG's p.r. tab, Ashooh gave...
...needed a reminder of how interdependent we’ve become in a global economy, we just need to look at the fact that no countries have been spared,” he said. Lawrence, however, also pointed out that protectionism is not a viable response for containing the fallout. “If we think back to the 1930’s, I think there’s little doubt that dramatic increases in tariff in the United States made that depression much deeper, and left a legacy that took us decades to remove,” he said...
...warfare and direct intervention that eventually became what many dubbed Africa's First World War. Regional power plays had a role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus - an outrage that the current Rwandan government accuses France of helping to enable. And the fallout from the Rwandan genocide has continued to plague Eastern Congo, where it has produced periodic massacres in the intervening years. Deep-seated hostilities across the region's fragile borders have prompted many in Congo to denounce the January agreement which allows Rwandan troops to operate inside the DRC, accusing Kabila...
Studies suggest that people who are able to focus on the positive fallout from a negative event - basically, cope with failure - can protect themselves from the physical toll of stress and anxiety. In a recent study at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), scientists asked a group of women to give a speech in front of a stone-faced audience of strangers. On the first day, all the participants said they felt threatened, and they showed spikes in cortisol and fear hormones. On subsequent days, however, those women who had reported rebounding from a major life crisis...
Analysts and academics have started to doubt the education given to students at business schools, and have asserted that a better business education could perhaps have helped diminish fallout from the current economic crisis...