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 future of China's consumer economy will depend on how consumers lives evolve in the future. This paper examines aspects of consumers' lives -- where they will live, how societal changes will impact their families, their choices and behavior -- to examine questions about the future of the Chinese consumer landscape.

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.

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.

Sovereign wealth funds remained cautious in the second quarter, but were preparing to increase their activity in the third quarter, an analysis by Monitor and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. This report is the latest in a series tracking SWF behavior trends.

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.

Monitor Group and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), a leading international research center based in Milan, Italy, released Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment  Behavior: Analysis of Sovereign Wealth Fund Transactions during Q1 2009, a new quarterly report analyzing the effects of the global recession on behaviors and financial transactions of sovereign wealth funds. 

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.

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).