Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. Many British firms have been slow to recognize the direct correlation between corporate empathy and growth and productivity. Oil & Gas.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture. Phase 2: Trying on products at home.

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. Health care needs to define productivity differently. Victor Albrow/Getty Images.

Health Care 8

Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

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. There are some exemptions for humanitarian-designated sectors, such as agriculture, food products, health care, and civil aviation.).

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

. “It’s a culture thing,” María Lacouture, the head of government economic development agency ProColombia, told me. We’d focus on, how can I develop in my area, in my business?” Many of these problems are typical of developing countries. Education and innovation remain weak.

Tourism 10

Tourism Finance Banking Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We compare trends across 10 distinct types of flows within its 4 pillars: trade (merchandise and services), capital (FDI and portfolio equity), information (internet bandwidth, telephone calls, trade in printed publications), and people (tourism, international education, migration). • Why does all of this matter?

Report 15

Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Six years ago, David and Donna Allman approached Opportunity with an idea that fell outside our traditional microfinance model: to build a Community Economic Development (CED) program in Nicaragua. Across the world, Opportunity's field operations couple our financial products with training, preventative health education, and much more.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

It can improve its competitiveness by reducing costs in its traditional sectors, such as tourism, agriculture, and trade. Or it can aim higher – by laying the groundwork for higher value-added goods production. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

Planning 9

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Such a development would surely meet Gordon’s criteria for robust innovation — the impact of the transporter on our society and economy would be staggering. Perhaps in tourism? The chart below shows how compensation for average workers and productivity have decoupled since the mid 1970s. Would other jobs be created?

Gordon 8

Gordon Transportation Tourism Information Technology 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The challenges of city centers have been compounded by the shortage of tourism that would also provide economic heft to so many. With pan-European research showing that remote workers are more productive, it’s perhaps no surprise that so many knowledge-based firms are voting with their feet and their wallets. Shifting sands.

Reis 68

Reis Transportation Real Estate Tourism 68

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Cuba’s growth domestic product per capita in 2015 is approximately what it was in 1985. This is not a good scenario for productivity and economic growth. 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.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. Developed alongside business magnate Nandan Nilekani, “ the biggest social project on the planet ” relies on community-operated Common Service Centers (CSCs) and local entrepreneurs to deliver programs and share in the profits.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In fact, while the total tourism market in Amsterdam grew 19 percent from 2009 to 2014, the Heineken Experience grew 143 percent. In fact, the quality time consumers spend within a brand experience can increase ROI and develop true engagement , leading to greater brand advocacy and actions over time. Engage all five senses.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In 2009, Queensland Tourism advertised for the best job in the world—to house-sit an island on the Great Barrier Reef. They are employed by skincare companies to find out if their products have really improved the skin of customers. They are trained to come to objective conclusions about product usage.

Tourism 87

Tourism Outsourcing Content Training 87

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In the beginning companies sold products. A focus on products means a focus on selling running shoes. Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard.

Project 8

Project Productivity Products Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

If the supplier had used its 2016–2017 sales data, which showed greater demand for its products as a result of the boom in UK tourism, to predict future results and set next year’s strategy, it may have overestimated future performance and ended up with too much inventory, higher costs, and pressure to discount heavily to move product.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Your most important customers may not be the people who buy your products but the ones who regulate your company and industry. Their managements increasingly have to play the odds: What is more likely to get a better and safer return on investment — a really talented software development team in Bangalore, Bogata, or Cambridge?

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

He has presided over an economic and social rebirth, with Rwanda making dramatic gains in health and development indicators ( watching its recent progress on Gapminder is a remarkable sight). So far, Rwanda''s three big clusters are coffee, tea, and tourism, but Porter is convinced there are more to come. Government can''t do it.

Porter 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

It’s what happens every time you expect a company’s service or product or process to work, but it doesn’t—and nobody can seem to fix it, even though everybody knows what’s wrong. In fact, we lose up to 40 percent of our productivity by switching between tasks; the more we switch, the worse our performance.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Especially given the fragmentation of the ”splinternet,” dramatized by the development of a distinct internet ecology in China, this is currently a matter of much concern. But developments such as robotics and 3-D printing might end up reducing rather than increasing trade levels, depending on how quickly their costs drop.

Globalization 8

Globalization Offshoring Tacit Knowledge Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

government received credible intelligence that ISIS had developed the capability to conceal explosive devices within laptops, tablets, and other large electronic devices, these devices have been banned, as of late March, from the airline cabins of U.S. According to statistics published by the National Trade and Tourism Office, 1.9

Travel 10

Travel Airlines Company Hotels 10