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The Perilous Journey Undertaken By Forced Migrants

The Horizons Tracker

There are daily reminders of the immense peril that often accompanies the crossing of international borders by refugees and asylum seekers, with data from the International Organization for Migration revealing that there were 16,300 deaths during such journeys between January 2014 and December 2018. Perilous travel.

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Taking a Look at the Future of Oil and Gas Industry

Strategy Driven

They will continue to propel global travel and commerce. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. Despite major turbulences (like the one of 2014), OPEC has successfully managed the supply/demand in the past. We should never underestimate the potential for technological innovation.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

That’s what Narayana Health (NH) did in 2014 by opening a hospital in the Cayman Islands — Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI) — which was close to America but outside its regulatory ambit. As we explain in Reverse Innovation in Health Care , Narayana Health’s founder, Dr. Devi Shetty, wanted to disrupt U.S.

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

Strategy Driven

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization.

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Tackling Big Global Challenges with Low-Cost Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Airbnb lets spare room owners make money out of their idle asset and makes the asset easily accessible for more travelers. The idea of offering your spare room on the web is not new, but with Airbnb you don’t have to create your own website and hope that Google-searching travelers find you.

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The Benefits of Taking a Slower Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business Review

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.