Leadership Dispatches: Chile's Extraordinary Comeback from Disaster

by Michael Useem, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Howard C. Kunreuther, et al.

Book Overview

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 percent of Chile's GDP. This calamity hit just as an incumbent political regime was packing its bags and a new administration was preparing to take...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804793875
• ISBN13: 9780804793872
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Stanford Business Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.1"