Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Multiple companies find that doing business in a new country is easier when a consortium operates. Distribution centers and networks for retail products. Scientists, per research program.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

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. There are some exemptions for humanitarian-designated sectors, such as agriculture, food products, health care, and civil aviation.).

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

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

With the leadership of Opportunity's Geralyn Sheehan , a CED specialist, we forged ahead, investing resources to build programs in four areas: agriculture financing, training, and processing; artisan training and product distribution; a rural technical high school and community infrastructure; and leadership development work.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” We see this with Digital India and the telemedicine program.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 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

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The challenges of city centers have been compounded by the shortage of tourism that would also provide economic heft to so many. operating at around 30-40% of normal levels. This has been driven in large part by the malaise of city center environments that have become ghost towns without the lifeblood of workers that sustain them.

Reis 68

Reis Transportation Real Estate Tourism 68

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 frugal solution is built around affordable and easy-to-use medical devices that can be operated by nurses in rural clinics.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

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

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

This still renders Turkey as a good base of operations for many international businesses that are invested in the Middle East, Balkans, and the Caucasus – inherently high-risk areas. Terrorism impacts tourism, but not for as long as you might think. That’s less time than from a natural disaster or political unrest.

Tourism 10

Tourism Politics Uncertainty Price 10

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

It’s what happens every time you expect a company’s service or product or process to work, but it doesn’t—and nobody can seem to fix it, even though everybody knows what’s wrong. 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

MAY 25, 2017

Aside from another terrorist group disrupting world-wide travel operations at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars , the other big winners from an increased ban could be foreign intelligence services. According to statistics published by the National Trade and Tourism Office, 1.9 That number, per the FBI , is nearly $500 billion.

Travel 10

Travel Airlines Company Hotels 10