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Wealth with Wisdom: Serving the Aging Consumer
When 80-year-old Martha Smith wants to boil a cup of water in her microwave, she turns the dial to the popcorn setting and hits ‘start’. Unable to easily adjust the digital timer on the device, she...
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Deep Talent, Vast Distances: Tapping the Global Knowledge Workforce
Company leaders are often quick to acknowledge, even revere, the importance of human capital in their organizations. “Our growth depends on people” and similar sound bites echo through many CEO...
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Necessity Breeds Opportunity: Constraints, Innovation and Competitive Advantage
When Tata Motors released the world’s cheapest car, the US$2500 Nano, they surprised skeptics who doubted that such an innovation could come out of India, a country known more for its feeble...
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Rethinking Emerging Market Strategies
Ron Donald knows that good deeds seldom go unpunished. As the head of emerging market business at a major manufacturer, he has received many accolades pertaining to cost savings. His last review with...
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Money and Borders: Cross-Border Investments in a Changing Global Marketplace
As conditions improve after the recession, it’s widely expected that government’s role in economies around the world will diminish. Firms that received government aid will buy back shares and pay off...
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Tearing Up the Box: Rethinking Innovation in Emerging Markets
Growing up in rural Oklahoma, I learned to tinker with things at an early age. Boredom and time can either be a recipe for innovation or for disaster, and in my case it was a mix of both. Often, with...
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The Rise of Safety Innovations in Intelligent Mobility
In the years since Karl Benz invented the modern auto-mobile in 1885, energy and safety have emerged as two long-standing themes, central to the automotive industry.1 With respect to energy, the...
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Getting Ahead of the “Ripple Effect”
Water has been on corporate agendas for decades, but as a line item to be minimized in the cost of goods sold. Ford Motor Company’s Global Water Management Initiative, for example, was launched in 2000...
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Emerging market talent strategies: Creating an effective global talent model
In the past, global business and talent strategies typically ran in one direction: from north to south, from developed markets to emerging markets. But the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and...
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Building on the BRICs: Redraw the global map of opportunity and competition
BRIC countries have been effective stepping-stones for multinationals from developed nations. But as growth cools in the BRICs, where should multinationals turn? Seven new emerging markets are enticing...
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Global Economic Outlook, Q1 2014: Are emerging markets losing their brand...
This past summer, markets in the emerging economies went on a roller-coaster ride as investors worldwide started selling risky emerging-market assets. What led to a “sky is falling” reaction among...
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Bridging the gap between data and policy: Engaging national governments in...
Integrating youth into formal economies In 2011, North Africa erupted in a series of youth-led revolutions, the echoes of which can still be heard in the region and around the world. These...
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Global Economic Outlook, Q4 2015: Are emerging markets prepared for the Fed...
It has been two years since the US Federal Reserve (Fed) first signaled its intention to taper its massive quantitative easing program (QE3). The unexpected announcement in May 2013 panicked...
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Special topic: Fed rate hike and economic instability in emerging markets
When an apple fell on young Isaac Newton’s head, he sought to understand the reason behind the fall and devised the theory of gravity. However, when a falling acorn hit Chicken Little, the chick...
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Thailand: Getting back on its feet: Asia Pacific Economic Outlook, Q2 2016
Thailand’s economy bounced back modestly last year after a lackluster 2014. While a much-needed fiscal stimulus helped, a swing in investments appears to have dispelled some of the clouds of political...
View ArticleTaiwan: In the shadow of the Chinese slowdown: Asia Pacific Economic Outlook,...
Two of the biggest issues facing Taiwan’s economy are the slowdown in China and the results of the recent election in Taiwan. First, consider the Chinese economy. The slowdown of China’s growth has...
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Vietnam: In the fast lane: Asia Pacific Economic Outlook, Q2 2016
Vietnam is experiencing the quickest rate of growth in real GDP since the onset of the global financial crisis. Domestic demand has recovered in a favorable environment of low inflation, accommodative...
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Realty check: Asian real estate market feels the heat
A house—or more modestly put, a shelter—is among the most basic needs of any human being after food and clothing. So, as economies develop over time, housing demand—for residential purposes and as an...
View ArticleMalaysia: Cautiously walking the tightrope: Asia Pacific Economic Outlook, Q2...
When we last took a look at the Malaysian economy, the country was reeling under the impact of falling oil prices, a depreciating currency, and rising inflation. The situation has continued to...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Headwinds, and a policy response: Asia Pacific Economic Outlook,...
The South Korean economy has recently faced headwinds, culminating in a central bank decision on June 9 to cut the benchmark interest rate for the first time in a year. This comes at a time when the...
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