Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Widget manufacturing companies team with retail management experts to open a string of widget stores. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. Distribution centers and networks for retail products.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

With expanding middle classes demanding more-comprehensive care, governments of these emerging markets are under pressure to invest as chronic disease rates — particularly those related to Western lifestyles — dramatically increase and the average age of their once-young populations begins to rise.

Health Care 8

Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I knew it would be a challenge to restart my career in a new market, especially one that is densely populated with talent, so I expected the process to take a few months. How could a career that ranged from working with royalty to Fortune 500 brands and startups not pique the curiosity of any hiring managers?

Tourism 8

Tourism Career Storytelling Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management.

Company 11

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Cuba’s growth domestic product per capita in 2015 is approximately what it was in 1985. There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. This is not a good scenario for productivity and economic growth.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

If I asked you to picture the consumer luxury market, you might imagine jewels, sports cars, watches, premium drinks, high-end shoes and apparel, and so on. Third, the report highlights the fact that the investment community is waking up to the value to consumer brands of managing environmental and social issues well.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Apparel Tourism 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

When I was teaching at Peking University, for example, one of my fellow professors monitored an experiment in which the Chinese government gave local villagers the rights to manage a forest. And of course that's true — but the commodities market has been booming only in recent years, and the bank's track record is long and impressive.

Biotechnology 10

Biotechnology Real Estate Tourism Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Maybe, even, another Chinese big-dreamer would be Huang Nubo, founder and chairman of Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group, who is both a philanthropist (at Beijing University) and an entrepreneur who tried to buy 300 square kilometers of land in Northwestern Iceland as a site for Chinese tourism and leisure.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

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

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. The sooner firms have a Brexit plan, the faster they can focus on managing these competitive dynamics. have products that must comply with UK regulations or particular specifications. How to Plan for Brexit. Create a strategic Brexit team.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

State satisfaction mattered more than market disruption. Your most important customers may not be the people who buy your products but the ones who regulate your company and industry. With apologies to Ted Levitt , a new “Marketing Myopia 2.0” ” That’s not cynicism; that’s savvy risk management.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. 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

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 these cases Rwanda had eroded assets, but there was a foundation and a proof point, a market test that these areas could be successful and they could be competitive. Or make your farm more productive.

Porter 11

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 11