Chris Brady

JULY 13, 2010

But the mini-bus was having a powerful effect on thosefolks, parting them like the Red Sea. The roads got narrower and narrower and the crowds of people thickerand thicker. Those pesky pedestrians were really clogging up our path and makingit hard to get through. Things wereworking out swimmingly.

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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. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence. sanctions and a fragile economy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

mobile devices are now powerful enough to handle AR software and tracking systems), three other elements have enabled the mass adoption of AR apps: 1) meaningful content, 2) convincing and realistic interaction of the virtual with the physical environment, and 3) unique value that goes beyond what other technologies deliver.

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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. Perhaps in tourism? The innovations may come, but the people at the top of the income distribution will continue to capture nearly all of the gains.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The Allmans' dream taught us that community development, powered in part by microfinance, accelerates Opportunity's impact on the communities we serve. He was labeled a troublemaker and, without access to education, was destined for the poverty cycle, living in a region where less than 10 percent of youth finish high school.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After a general election that saw an Islamist-led coalition rise to power, the country witnessed two political assassinations in February and July 2013. This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Digital platforms like Uber and Airbnb harness the power of the internet to offer a frictionless marketplace that powerfully matches supply and demand so as to make whole new sets of assets available to customers. dave wheeler FOR HBR. This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

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. The power to authorize U.S. They’ve remained in power. Cuba’s main resource to engage in the world is no longer sugar cane. Have the doors opened to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Second, the indirect and more powerful pressure: social norms are changing, starting with high-profile tastemakers. The report has some additional good case studies in the watch, leather, diamond, and eco-tourism realms. This kind of law clearly drives much more transparency and tracking up the supply chain.

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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.

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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. In that regard, Greece finds itself at a crossroads. Greece simply needs more of these businesses.

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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.

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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? Yet, all of these Chinese big dreamers are also at the top of their organizations and have the power to move their dreams as well as author them.

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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. Buehner captures the power of experience: “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” In 2014, more than 740,000 visitors toured the historic brewery.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

Nor are China or other emerging powers ready to fill the leadership vacuum. led G7 world, no longer reflects the true international balance of power. Mexico's largest sources of foreign currency are oil sales, tourism, and remittances from nationals working abroad. So we've entered a period of transition.

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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.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Segway ended up lowering its prices and focusing mainly on police, industrial, and tourism markets—and sold 24,000 over the first five years (or roughly 2,576,000 fewer units and about $13 billion less in revenue than expected), at lower margins. That’s not a path to happiness, for either the organization or the individual.

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