TY - BOOK AU - Harvard Business School. TI - Harvard business essentials : crisis management : master the skills to prevent disasters T2 - Harvard business essentials series SN - 9781591394372 U1 - 658.4056 PY - 2004/// CY - Boston, Mass. : PB - Harvard Business School Press, KW - Crisis management N1 - Index; Taking stock of potential perils : what could go wrong? -- Avoiding the avoidable : an ounce of prevention -- Contingency planning : preparing today for tomorrow's problems -- Crisis recognition : where there's smoke there's fire -- Containment : preventing a bad situation from becoming worse -- Crisis resolution : the road to recovery -- Mastering the media : make it your story -- Learning from your experience : gather lessons where you find them N2 - Few managers receive any formal training in handling crises. This book aims to remedy the situation by explaining the essentials of crisis management and providing a practical framework for stabilizing, then mastering, an unanticipated crisis ER -