It was the deal of the week — a possible $13 billion settlement between JPMorgan Chase and the Justice Department to resolve an array of crisis-related mortgage cases.
At many companies, more planning was also devoted to anticipating a widening array of crises that business travelers can confront -- terrorism, crime, natural disasters, epidemics, civil or labor unrest, accidents -- as corporate travel expands increasingly into remote and unstable parts of the world.
Instead, they are "gladiators in suits" who mollify or avert a wide array of crises.
At the same time, our individual and collective capacities for resilience are becoming more germane, as we seek to live with an escalating array of crises and catastrophes.
The war drew global attention, but an array of crises in its aftermath — Ebola, Ukraine, the growing reach of the militants of Islamic State — have taken the spotlight.
Germany's economic dominance has made Merkel the most important leader in Europe, and she won plaudits for her calm handling of an array of crises, from the threat to Europe's common currency to Russian aggression in Ukraine.
As the planet's richest nation, with the world's top pool of scientists, we should be committing far more, not less, federal funding to free and unfettered basic scientific research that is directed towards confronting the array of crises that confront us globally.
History offers a rich array of banking crises from which policymakers can draw lessons and against which today's rescue plans can be judged.
The signatories of an open letter to member states argue that, given the array of current crises, the selection of Ban Ki-moon's successor as head of the UN in 2016 will be one of the organisation's most important decisions over the next decade.
Last year he appeared before Congress for a similar purpose and, lo and behold, he was very, very concerned then too (pdf): I will say that my almost 50 years in intelligence, I do not recall a period in which we confront a more diverse array of threats, crises and challenges around the world.
Both China and the U.S. face enormous challenges at home, common security problems, and an array of international crises that could really use the coordinated efforts of two superpowers.
