A business environment in which carbon emissions carry new costs creates a different competitive context. To succeed in this new environment, companies must reevaluate their core strategic choices, rethink their critical sources of competitive advantage and invest in new capabilities.

Most commentators point to a grim prognosis for sub-Saharan Africa. This research report from Monitor, while acknowledging the region's real problems, argues that it shows signs of diversified economic development and it should resume growing with the recovery of the global economy.

A report from the Center for American Progress, the Asia Society, Monitor Group and Dr. S. Julio Friedmann from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, provides a framework for the United States and China to develop carbon capture and sequestration technologies to curb pollution and create new jobs.

In this video Eamonn Kelly outlines four key discontinuities driving global change and identifies how leaders can take action to gain competitive advantage. It is part of a special series explaining how leaders can seize opportunities during tumultuous times.

Companies need to look beyond their walls to compete in these tumultuous times. Open innovation can help businesses more reliably discover new ideas, but they need discipline to pursue the right opportunities with the right approaches. Read more and see other articles in our series.

In this article in Pharmaceutical Executive Magazine, Monitor's Bansi Nagji and Matt Locsin explain how design thinking can help pharmaceutical executives explore new business models while attending to their existing commercial model.

This research report analyzes how Asian countries responded to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009 and underlines the tight interconnections that link emerging Asian economies and the advanced economies of Europe, North America and elsewhere.

Over the past year, the use of social media tools has become increasingly mainstream, interest in both networks and leading with a network mindset has mushroomed (driven in part by the success of the 2008 Obama campaign), and the tools themselves have continued to mature. This paper, an updated version of a 2008 article, is an effort to update and share our learning to date.

In a panel discussion organized by the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Monitor co-founder Joseph Fuller and other experts talk about ways that pharmaceutical companies can change their business models, financing structures, corporate governance models and incentive systems to build sustainable, profitable futures.

In this uplifting presentation as part of the TED Talks series, Monitor's Katherine Fulton sketches the new future of philanthropy -- one where collaboration and innovation allow regular people to do big things, even when money is scarce. Giving five practical examples of crowd-driven philanthropy, she calls for a new generation of citizen leaders.