Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

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.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

While working with a huge Russian hydrocarbon company in Texas last year, our innovation conversation quickly zeroed in on customers. The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. The unhappy innovation inference? No one disagreed.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

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.

Gordon 8

Gordon Transportation Tourism Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. It can improve its competitiveness by reducing costs in its traditional sectors, such as tourism, agriculture, and trade. to 3% of their GDP.

Planning 9

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

But it also has implications for areas outside of entertainment, such as marketing, fashion, tourism, and retail, where commercial AR apps have already been increasing in numbers and popularity. Phase 2: Trying on products at home. This technology let people virtually “try on” a product.

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation. 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

JULY 7, 2016

Education and innovation remain weak. Colombia has sound macroeconomic policies and overall positive external relations, but its productivity, especially total factor productivity (TFP), has scarcely contributed to growth. The peace should encourage foreign direct investment and tourism, too.

Tourism 10

Tourism Finance Banking Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

With a few exceptions, it’s been an industry not traditionally associated with concerns about environmental impacts, human rights, and wellness, even while those trends have been sweeping through the mainstream consumer products sector. Climate change is changing water availability and crop production around the world.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Apparel Tourism 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

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. Choreographed soundscapes, product sampling, strategically placed aromas, and hands-on experiences can complement visual media and help audiences completely immerse themselves in the brand.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

This systematic experimentation is similar to the experimentation that happens in labs to test out scientific hypotheses or in corporations to test out a product before it is sold widely. Is it possible that local funding could help bolster tourism in Florida, biotechnology in California, publishing in New York, and agriculture in Iowa?

Biotechnology 9

Biotechnology Real Estate Tourism Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

was the watchword of tourism. Standardizing production was the great objective of the second industrial revolution. It almost always made the product or experience better because in those days, randomness was enemy of consumer satisfaction. Only then do we know what the day has in store for us. No surprises!" We just don't know.

Hotels 12

Hotels Due Diligence Tourism Travel 12

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