Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. Health care needs to define productivity differently. Victor Albrow/Getty Images.

Tourism 28

Tourism Pharmaceuticals System Construction 28

Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

. “It’s a culture thing,” María Lacouture, the head of government economic development agency ProColombia, told me. We’d focus on, how can I develop in my area, in my business?” Many of these problems are typical of developing countries. Education and innovation remain weak.

Tourism 36

Tourism Government Finance Efficiency 36

Harvard Business

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 28

Tourism Banking Hotels Financial 28

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. Developed alongside business magnate Nandan Nilekani, “ the biggest social project on the planet ” relies on community-operated Common Service Centers (CSCs) and local entrepreneurs to deliver programs and share in the profits.

Nonprofit 37

Nonprofit Government Company Operations 37

Harvard Business

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.

Productivity 28

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Harvard Business

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.

Operations 28

Operations Sales Analysis Tourism 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Especially given the fragmentation of the ”splinternet,” dramatized by the development of a distinct internet ecology in China, this is currently a matter of much concern. But developments such as robotics and 3-D printing might end up reducing rather than increasing trade levels, depending on how quickly their costs drop.

Transportation 28

Transportation Tourism Software Video 28

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

government received credible intelligence that ISIS had developed the capability to conceal explosive devices within laptops, tablets, and other large electronic devices, these devices have been banned, as of late March, from the airline cabins of U.S. According to statistics published by the National Trade and Tourism Office, 1.9

Intellectual Property 35

Intellectual Property Travel Data Airlines 35