Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Thanks to Airbnb, more people will travel, bringing more tourism dollars to more people in the countries they travel to, creating more profits and distributing them more fairly. This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. Yet, over 5 billion people worldwide don’t have internet access.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

Banks often are unwilling to take the risk of financing small and midsize companies. Education and innovation remain weak. The cartels, like that of Pablo Escobar, financed the FARC (and the ELN, another left-wing terrorist group) in return for protection. A handful of rail lines carry little more than coal.

Tourism 8

Tourism Finance Banking Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation. He was labeled a troublemaker and, without access to education, was destined for the poverty cycle, living in a region where less than 10 percent of youth finish high school.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8