June 10, 2009
Harvard Business Review Online
Sustainability is here to stay as a central business issue, yet many corporations do not have the right resources or organization to comply with the new demands efficiently or, more importantly, to turn them to business advantage, writes Monitor's Bob Lurie in this post for the Leading Green blog at Harvard Business Review Online. Lurie, director and managing partner at Monitor Group, explains how executives can address these challenges.
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June 3, 2009
BusinessWeek
In BusinessWeek, Jeffrey F. Rayport writes that web-based entertainment options like Hulu.com give consumers less-costly alternatives to paying for premium cable television shows. "Cable providers are seeing a whole new generation of online users who are perfectly happy to pay $30 for a 'naked' cable modem... but have no need for the $150-a-month premium programming package," Rayport writes. "That means they've got to make the experience of suing a converter box, digital or not, competitive with the video experience online."
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May 28, 2009
Advertising Age
In an article in Advertising Age, Thomas Nagle, a partner at Monitor, encourages marketing executives to be innovative during the recession by building on top of their current business capabilities. "The key is to make the most out of capabilities the company already has to generate incremental revenue," Nagle writes.
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May 27, 2009
Financial Times
A Financial Times report about social entrepreneurship cites expertise from Monitor Group to help explain the opportunities and challenges afforded by the vast problems and opportunities in India.
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May 20, 2009
Monitor and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Monitor Group, one of the world’s leading advisory and consulting firms, and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, a leading international research center, based in Milan, Italy, released, “Weathering the Storm: Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Global Economic Crisis of 2008,” a new annual report analyzing the effects of the global economic crisis on the behaviors and financial transactions of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs).
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May 19, 2009
The National, United Arab Emirates
The recent election mandate given to India's ruling Congress Party means the government will have a period of relative stability, giving leaders breathing room to pursue policies for economic growth and social development programs promised to voters, writes Varad Pande of Monitor Group. In an essay in The National based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Pande, a senior consultant in the UAE offices at Monitor Group, analyzes the prospects for the administration of economist Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister.
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May 7, 2009
BusinessWeek
In his latest column in BusinessWeek, Jeffrey Rayport writes that social networks like Facebook are changing the way we use the web and how advertisers seek to reach customers.
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April 28, 2009
The National, United Arab Emirates
It's always difficult to predict who will win national elections in India, but it's clear that the country's relatively high growth prospects will continue to make it an attractive investment destination for foreign capital no matter who prevails, writes Varad Pande. Pande, a senior consultant for Monitor Group in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), contributed this essay discussing the forthcoming Indian elections to The National based in Abu Dhabi.
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