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Antoine Gara and Nathan Vardi, “Inside The $2.5 Trillion Debt Binge That Has Taken S&P 500 Titans Including Boeing And AT&T From Blue Chips To Near Junk,” Forbes 21 May 2020 www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2020/05/21/inside-the-25-trillion-debt-binge-that-has-taken-sp-500-titans-including-boeing-and-att-from-blue-chips-to-near-junk COVID scenario planning for non-profits We adapted Bain & Company’s coronavirus scenario planning guidance and strategy in uncertainty methodology, and worked with a number of nonprofit leaders to put this approach into practice. First comes some homework. Lindsey Waldron, Robert Searle, Alexandra Jaskula-Ranga, “Making Sense of Uncertainty: Nonprofit Scenario Planning in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Bridgespan Insights 27 May 2020 https://www.bridgespan.org/insights/library/strategy-development/nonprofit-scenario-planning-covid-19 Big tech finds opportunity in the crisis Even with the global economy reeling from a pandemic-induced recession and dozens of businesses filing for bankruptcy, tech’s largest companies – still wildly profitable and flush with billions of dollars from years of corporate dominance – are deliberately laying the groundwork for a future where they will be bigger and more powerful than ever. Context in business is often subjective, and the policymaker may have a very different context than the intelligence professional. [...]managers inside General Electric warned Jeff Immelt, its former chief executive, that acquiring Alstom’s power business – a financially troubled French company – was a recipe for disaster.