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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

After a rocky start for the country after Ben Ali’s fall, the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize went to the Tunisian Quartet, composed of four civil society associations, which facilitated the country’s national dialogue. Because of this, tourism, one of the country’s biggest income generators, has plummeted leaving it in an economically weakened state.

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The Real Challenge to Turkey’s Economy Isn’t Terrorism

Harvard Business Review

Excluding smaller-scale bombing attacks of police and military targets, the airport bombing has been the 11th mass civilian casualty terrorist incident in Turkey since June 2015, leaving more than 250 civilians dead. But it does help explain how the country has so far managed to insulate its economy.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Widget manufacturing companies team with retail management experts to open a string of widget stores. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Group marketing programs, such as auto dealer clusters, municipalities for economic development, travel and tourism destinations, trade association and product image upgrades.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

Compared to most oil-rich countries in the Middle East, Iran has a diversified economy, its tourism sector is on the verge of a major windfall, and threats to its political stability are in decline. The country’s tourism sector attracted fewer than five million visitors in 2014 while neighboring Turkey attracted 39 million people.

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Luxury Brands Can No Longer Ignore Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

in 2015, which requires larger companies doing business in Britain to publish a board-approved, public annual slavery and human trafficking statement. Third, the report highlights the fact that the investment community is waking up to the value to consumer brands of managing environmental and social issues well.

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

Cuba’s growth domestic product per capita in 2015 is approximately what it was in 1985. It has tourism—beach and sun and one of the communist world’s last Jurassic political systems—but the real asset is the brains of its people. They’re colossally impressive in the management of politics.

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Why Greece and Cyprus May Be Better Off Without the Euro

Harvard Business Review

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. A managed exit from the common currency could alter that.

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