Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The Thai government encourages such investment to provide for its country’s own health care needs, as well as to maintain Thailand’s position as a medical tourism destination. Medical tourism — an enterprise focused exclusively on procedure-based sick care or elective surgery — is common in many developing nations.

Health Care 8

Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

was the watchword of tourism. We just needed to work on design, engineering, and production until every outcome was like every other outcome. Only then do we know what the day has in store for us. American travelers used to insist on full disclosure and perfect standardization. "No No surprises!" We just don't know.

Hotels 12

Hotels Due Diligence Tourism Travel 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Robin Li, founder of China’s largest search-engine, Baidu, is a talented software engineer who returned to China from the U.S. I hope that thanks to the platform we have created, every Haier employee will be able to do extraordinary things.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Thinking of her own cousin Guillermo Pombo, an engineer who had recently graduated from the University of Miami and was struggling to start his own business, Helena could see where Conrad was coming from. And yet her instinct was to oppose the idea. “Is there anything Unamano can do for me?

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. And as disruptive innovators in fields from digital self-expression, health care, retail, tourism, and transportation seek to scale globally, they’ll find regulators scaling right along side them.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

So far, Rwanda''s three big clusters are coffee, tea, and tourism, but Porter is convinced there are more to come. In the initial three areas of coffee, tea, and tourism, that effort has advanced quite far now. Rwanda is winning international awards and marketing globally, and tourism is booming. What are the bottlenecks?

Porter 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

And who knows what virtual reality might end up doing to tourism levels? And even if they themselves were engineered to be simpatico, it is hard to imagine that radical increases in the offshoring of labor services would be viewed as a successful and therefore sustainable outcome in an era of so much concern about jobs.

Globalization 8

Globalization Offshoring Tacit Knowledge Intangible Assets 8