South america

Bolsonaro will face many of the same challenges as his predecessors.

In many countries, diversified business groups substitute for the institutions that support effective markets in capital, labor, and goods and services. Their capacity for doing this must be strengthened through restructuring, not destroyed through dismantling.

Alegre, a leading hotel group in Central and South America, is suffering under the troubled economy, and its newest property, the flagship Palma Cay in...

Internet entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky is applying what he does best—building high-tech companies—to improving education in Argentina.

A case study of the Brazilian beef industry.

Having a rotating host city is a 19th-century idea.

Alegre, a leading hotel group in Central and South America, is suffering under the troubled economy, and its newest property, the flagship Palma Cay in...

After five years of heady growth in Peru, many experts say the country’s economy will slow down sharply in the future because of political uncertainty. The first round of presidential polls on April 10, 2011, set the stage for a June runoff between the leftist Ollanta Humala, a former military commander, and right-winger Keiko Fujimori, […]

It’s a place where more energy is put into thwarting things than starting them, but in the nicest way. A startling percentage of companies, especially large, established ones, display the symptoms.

To win in the world’s fastest-growing markets, transnational giants have to compete with increasingly sophisticated homegrown champions. It isn’t easy.

The most popular offshore sites for service functions are overheating. Now is the time for companies to explore a world of opportunity beyond those hot spots and to base investment decisions not just on costs but also on talent, markets, strategic aims, and appetite for risk.

How hard-liners got their way.

You can't keep relying on the same old methods.

Companies often resort to lobbyists and lawyers to fight unfair trade policies. But sometimes there are easier alternatives. Consider the case of Chiquita and Dole, organizations that faced restrictive new trade policies in the early 1990s that limited banana exports into Europe. Following World War II, Chiquita became Europe’s main banana provider, exporting to Germany […]

A survey shows a wave of growth in inbound marketing.

Over the last decade, Semco has successfully extended its business from manufacturing to services to the Internet. Here’s what it has learned: transformation is easy—if you throw away your plans and let your people lead you.

Most executives believe that corporations with large headquarters are bureaucratic, out of touch with customers, and slow to make decisions—and, so, perform poorly. That’s why CEOs slash headquarters staff whenever they try to cut costs or improve performance. But do lean headquarters really perform better? In collaboration with research partners around the world, we studied […]

In Chile last June, I had the opportunity to spend some time with Felipe Kast, the new government’s minister of planning, and a few of his compadres. (We also went dancing, but that is another story.) One of the topics we talked about was the Chilean retirement saving plan. By law, 11% of every employee’s […]

Acronyms like BRIC can be misleading.