Good quality, affordable housing is an area of great unmet need in urban India, with the potential to impact more than 20 million households. In 2006, Monitor Inclusive Markets started working to catalyze this market, believing it to be a space where a market-based solution was not only viable, but could drive significant social impact at scale. A product of this work is Monitor’s “State of the Market” study commissioned by India’s National Housing Bank.

Monitor Group and Al-Sayedah Khadijah Bint Khuwalid Businesswomen Center carried out a study on current and aspiring female business owners in Saudi Arabia to better understand the challenges and opportunities facing Saudi businesswomen and provide reliable data about them. The report also identifies practical ways to support Saudi businesswomen.

For prospective homeowners in India’s low-income bracket, the options for securing financing have traditionally been slim. But thanks to a growing number of housing finance companies that focus on low-income, informal sector customers, many people are getting a second chance at a loan, writes Monitor senior manager Nishant Lalwani in an article for the leading Indian business magazine Business Today.

The world’s rapidly growing megacities represent significant opportunities for companies seeking new markets and justify a unique approach to an important source of potential growth. In this article, Jennifer Lacks Kaplan and Mark Pocharski explain what it takes for companies to build winning strategies to take advantage of this growth opportunity.

Pedro Arboleda, a partner at Monitor, writes in the ABC newspaper of Madrid, that commercially-effective innovation requires a clear alignment of interests among people critical to the innovation process—scientists, entrepreneurs, financiers, managers, and even politicians—all of whom provide the necessary ingredients for the special innovation “sauce” to have a viable life in the marketplace.

In this article, “How Innovation Really Works,” experts from Monitor produced a special research report with Business Today to explore how Monitor’s Ten Types of Innovation™ framework applies to growing, innovative companies in India.

In the lead article of Tharawat magazine’s 6th volume, Monitor's Kristina Rogers and Dr. Steffen Gackstatter explore the applicability of the Open Innovation concept to the Arab family business construct.

In this feature article "Shotgun Blues" from The Conference Board Review, Monitor's Bansi Nagji and Brian Quinn explain how corporate leaders can set a course to innovate in their organizations and industries to unlock value and create new opportunities for growth.

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."