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What Impact Is COVID Having On Coastal Towns?

The Horizons Tracker

The report reveals that coastal communities across the UK are likely to be significantly affected by the economic lockdown measures, due in large part to their reliance on tourism. It did this by exploring the socio-economic characteristics of each town, including the age of the local population, their education level, and so on.

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The Growing Popularity Of “Zoom Towns”

The Horizons Tracker

These kinds of issues are clearly linked to more long-term population changes than the kind of peaks and troughs associated with tourism, and there was a common concern that COVID would cause these trends to deepen. How does a gateway community navigate tourism, and growth writ-large, more gracefully?” ” Help to adapt.

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

Strategy Driven

I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. How could I refuse? My family was against it and it was risky. Build bonds to strengthen trust. So did we succeed?

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Tackling Big Global Challenges with Low-Cost Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Why Public Health Organizations Should Partner with Academic Institutes - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM QATAR FOUNDATION

Harvard Business Review

” It suggested that collaboration in research, education, and clinical practice too often remain unexplored in many developed countries across the world. Education Doesn’t End With Graduation. The recommendation was echoed in a recent U.S. “Ultimately, our research is improving our interventions.

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Economic Growth Isn’t Over, but It Doesn’t Create Jobs Like It Used To

Harvard Business Review

Gordon’s main point is that we no longer have the kind of robust, broad-based innovation that powered economic growth and rising living standards between, roughly, 1870 and 1970. The innovations may come, but the people at the top of the income distribution will continue to capture nearly all of the gains. This is certainly true.

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

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.