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Leadership dispatches : Chile's extraordinary comeback from disaster /

On February 27, 2010, Chile was rocked by a violent earthquake five hundred times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti just six weeks prior. The Chilean earthquake devastated schools, hospitals, roads, and homes, paralyzing the country for weeks and causing economic damage that was equal to 18...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Useem, Michael (Autor), Kunreuther, Howard (Autor), Michel-Kerjan, Erwann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.
Colección:High reliability and crisis management.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue : a quiet summer evening
  • Twelve days before entering the presidential office
  • One of the most intense events ever recorded
  • First order of business
  • Frameworks for action
  • Presidential leadership
  • Tiered leadership
  • Financing recovery
  • Insurance payouts for recovery
  • Private giving for recovery
  • Execution and expectations
  • Vulnerability and readiness
  • Civil action
  • Long-term disaster recovery
  • Rescuing 33 miners
  • Leadership dispatches
  • Epilogue : a quiet summer afternoon.