Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

It can improve its competitiveness by reducing costs in its traditional sectors, such as tourism, agriculture, and trade. For instance, Raycap has developed solutions that protect telecommunications, power, and transportation networks. Global business Innovation' In that regard, Greece finds itself at a crossroads.

Planning 8

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

It called for leveraging the profits of the global microfinance institution, and coupling them with private investments from the Allmans and their donor network. The Allmans' dream taught us that community development, powered in part by microfinance, accelerates Opportunity's impact on the communities we serve.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, the world’s largest online B2B global trading marketplace, is probably the most obvious choice. Can you name five?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

One of the most powerful corporate growth mechanisms – and at the heart of disruption theory — is moving upmarket. Why is the airline industry so terrible? What frequent flyer has not asked him- or herself this question? There is an answer, and it has to do with the dynamics of disruption.

Airlines 8

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Second, the indirect and more powerful pressure: social norms are changing, starting with high-profile tastemakers. ” L’Oreal has quietly been making itself one of the global leaders on climate change and renewable energy. This kind of law clearly drives much more transparency and tracking up the supply chain.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Apparel Tourism 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

Ukraine has 45 million inhabitants, is the second-largest European country by land area (after the European parts of Russia and not counting the Asian parts of Turkey) and by all rights ought to be one of the continent’s major economic powers. And then finally, in some parts of Ukraine, tourism has been becoming more important.

Politics 8

Politics Tourism Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I spent a couple of days gathering data about the tourism industry and the company’s current footprint in the market, and identified strategic opportunities for them there. I released the report on Twitter and copied Airbnb’s founders and leadership team.

Tourism 8

Tourism Career Storytelling Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

For a country that isn’t export-oriented, and whose major industry, tourism, relies on stability, having its own currency is not much of a solution to economic woes. They are reforms that no government in Greece, including Syriza, has attempted, for fear of upsetting powerful vested interests.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

In order to understand which nations are likeliest to emerge, we also need to look at changes underway across the global landscape. Unfortunately, we can't expect smoother sailing in years to come because, for the first time in seven decades, we now live in a world without global leadership. We live in a crisis-prone age.

Tourism 14

Tourism Crisis Globalization Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Then came the drug cartels, and the rural guerrillas, who initially called for agrarian reform and greater political participation in a country ruled by a small and powerful elite. Uribe supported and gave powers to paramilitary militias, which then turned into a force that almost spun out of his control.

Politics 8

Politics Leadership Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair. 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.

Porter 8

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 8