Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. Although predictive models for change management are still a ways off, organizations can get themselves on the right path by adopting the right tools and capturing the right data.

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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. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. sanctions and a fragile economy. However, remaining U.S. The Opportunities.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Look below the surface, and the scale of this achievement so far becomes clearer — not only because of the world-class execution of this $15 billion project, but also the context in which it is being delivered. The more test events completed, the better prepared organizers will be to manage spectators' security come Games-time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

How could a career that ranged from working with royalty to Fortune 500 brands and startups not pique the curiosity of any hiring managers? 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Cuba projects a population of 10.8 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. They’re colossally impressive in the management of politics. million in 2030. million in 2030. But it isn’t all bleak.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

But increasingly, what companies sell are projects. A focus on selling projects would mean helping someone do something more specific, such as running the Boston Marathon. The project would have a clear goal (finish the marathon) and a clear start and end date. And that is just one type of project.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Besides the short-term costs of such a move, history shows us that Greece has never managed to benefit from currency devaluations. 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.

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Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

But he was now a postdoc working on a desalination project that he believed could solve South Florida’s water problems. The local economy hadn’t diversified beyond its base in tourism and real estate into fast-growing areas such as health care or bioscience, and entrepreneurial success stories were few and far between.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

In Procter & Gamble facilities you often will see project teams pitching new ideas outside the corporate cafeteria. A few years ago we helping a startup develop an idea for a medical tourism business where customers seeking elective procedures would fly to exotic but lower-cost destinations. Test the idea among your employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Greece has only managed to wrest the four-month extension of a stability program. An alternate way forward may be to use higher government spending to assist vulnerable people, to lend to business, and to execute projects that inject money into the economy. A managed exit from the common currency could alter that.

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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. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world.

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