Mr. Grabowski, who specializes in crisis management, estimated that depoliticizing the brand could take as long as four years.
Meanwhile, a 2013 article in the Journal of Flood Risk Management estimated that flooding – which costs the US more than $7bn in damages annually, according to the US Geological Survey – estimated those damages would grow approximately 30% by the end of the century.
As the United States began its defense buildup prior to its entry into World War II, plant managements estimated that people could not work efficiently for 10, 12, or more hours without a refreshment break, and vending machines proved the most practical way of providing refreshments.
The disaster management agency estimates that more than 500 landslides in the last decade have been partly caused by excessive logging.
The Watershed Commission's management plan estimates that many problems in this area – groundwater overexploitation, subsidence, sewage flooding, lack of access and poor quality – could be solved by deepening the lake and building a waste treatment plant nearby.
Robert Esposito, of KPMG Peat Marwick, another management consultancy, estimates that only a quarter of American firms have a full complement of managers in finance, marketing and science.In any case, with ample opportunities at home, why should American managers venture to Europe?
A report by McKinsey, a management consultancy, estimates that India's information-technology revenues will be $87 billion by 2008, and the industry will employ 2.2m people and export products worth $50 billion.
