In a new report tracking sovereign wealth fund investments, Monitor Group and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei found that the funds had adapted to the global economic downturn by realigning investment strategies with long-term goals and pursuing joint investments to share risk.

In this article, Adam Greenberg and Romney Resney outline how biopharma executives can respond to intense market pressures and changing business dynamics by redefining their therapeutic area strategies to include a mixture of approaches: diagnostics to identify promising treatments; drug delivery technologies to differentiate offerings; and remote patient monitoring technologies.

On Wall Street, bankers continue to speculate about a government role in their future compensation. Although policymakers shelved the issue during the health care showdown in the United States and the Greek debt crisis in Europe, that suspension is likely to be temporary. Seldom have the heads of the world’s leading economies demonstrated such unanimity of opinion on a controversy. President Obama expressed disgust over bankers’ bonuses. In London, City Minister Paul Myners, called “grotesque” the news that 5,000 London bankers would receive bonuses of 1 million pounds.  French President Nicolas Sarkozy received widespread applause at Davos when he stated that pay packages that “bear no relationship to merit” are “morally indefensible.” The scrutiny and torrent of criticism is bound to reemerge, as New York officials reported that Wall Street bonuses grew 17 percent in 2009 to surpass $20 billion. Rarely has any economic issue been better suited to populist political rhetoric.

The Journal of Applied Corporate Finance has republished a 2002 article “Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game,” by Monitor's Joseph Fuller and Michael Jensen of Harvard Business School. The article argues that CEOs should manage expectations "in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should provide information about the company’s strategic goals and main value drivers. They should also discuss the risks associated with the strategies, and management’s plans to deal with them."

In these video highlights from the Accelerating Corporate Transformations webcast presentation, experts from Monitor share specific insights gained from 25 years of experience helping executives lead major transformations in their organizations. They explain the critical enablers of successful transformation and the barriers that every leader must anticipate and confront, as well as why speed is essential to execute bold new ideas that create lasting impact.

In this essay for Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Monitor co-founder Joseph Fuller argues that leading Korean corporations, after weathering the economic downturn well, need fresh thinking to move ahead in the global economy.

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.

The latest in Monitor's series of quarterly reports on the behavior of sovereign wealth funds investments found the number and value of transactions for the third quarter of 2009 had risen significantly.

Monitor, working in close partnership with Esty Environmental Partners, has developed a unique and integrated approach to analyzing, formulating, and executing successful sustainability strategies that are tailored to our clients' unique contexts, capabilities, and aspirations. In this webcast, Monitor's Eamonn Kelly and Bob Lurie along with Dan Esty, explain how sustainability can be a core part of future success.