[Mitworld] New: Sheffi's Resilient Enterprise, Garrett on Avian Flu

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[THE RESILIENT ENTERPRISE: OVERCOMING VULNERABILITY FOR COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE]

Disaster can cause come companies to thrive and others to fail. Sheffi
explains how companies can respond to supply chain disruption by
building in flexibility before disaster strikes. A post 9/11 must read.

SPEAKER:

Yossi Sheffi
	Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering
Systems
	Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/322/>

[QUOTE]
"If you build in the ability to respond quickly to disruption you build
in the ability to, whether you like it or not, to respond quickly to the
marketplace."
--Yossi Sheffi

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[SCIENTIFIC, HEALTH AND POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF AN AVIAN FLU PANDEMIC]

Pulitzer Prize winning writer Laurie Garrett speaks with authority,
conviction and insight about the real dangers of an avian flu, pandemic
in this sobering and troubling talk. Marc Lipsitch, Associate Professosr
at the Harvard School of Public Health responds.

SPEAKER:

Laurie Garrett
	Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/323/>

[QUOTE]
"The likely death toll (from the avian flu) would dwarf all but
thermonuclear threats....This flu is lethal to the healthiest. It
mirrors the 1918 great pandemic, which killed somewhere between 40 and
100 million people in 18 months circumnavigating the planet three times
in the absence of commercial air travel."
--Laurie Garrett

EVENT HOST:  Center for International Studies

<http://web.mit.edu/cis/>

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	Big Questions after Big Hurricanes


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