… This is a classic example of why managers must view the entire universe to see if changes
are taking place that will impact their industry and company in the future. Outsiders have a far …

Turnarounds are difficult under the best of conditions. It is even more daunting if a company
chooses the wrong turnaround specialist to carry it out. Unrealistic expectations about the …

The knee-jerk reaction for most companies in financial peril is to replace their current CEO
with an industry insider who “really knows the business.” However, insiders often make the …

In recent months, tale after tale of unscrupulous behavior has rocked the business scene,
involving top executives at some of the largest firms in the world. The erosion of public trust …

… Poorly managed tourism can overwhelm a place. But tourism done well can bring economic
… , about place. Nature and human culture help define a place, distinguishing one place from …

… Luna of the Department of Archaeology in Belmopan visited La Milpa in 1979 to follow up
reports of looting, which were unfortunately true; further Department of Archaeology visits took …

… rating is an average of informed judgments about each place as a whole—all its many
faces. Like the scores posted by Olympic judges, our experts’ ratings reflect both measurable …

… eral, indicating that this Blite activity took place not only within a fairly modest community, …
, some 70% of the 1998 operations took place there. Excavations were also carried out in the …

1 Small, isolated populations at species' borders have been postulated to be less likely to
have specialist pathogens and predators. Field and herbarium surveys were thus used to …

… The best method of preventing fungal invasions is simply to never allow them to establish in
the first place. Many countries now have barriers to the importation of new species, including …