This week, the Russian ruble slid while Russia and the Ukraine reached a gas deal. The ruble plunged a day after the currency’s biggest gain since 2003, and according to Bloomberg Businessweek, central bankers opted to raise the key interest rate…
Emerging Markets View: What Our Analysts Are Reading
Premier Li Keqiang delivered a speech to 1,000 business leaders at the World Economic Forum last week with the message that the China market is still open to foreign investors, according to an article in Bloomberg Businessweek. However, FSG’s Senior Analyst…
Emerging Markets View: What Our Analysts Are Reading
McDonald’s restaurants in Russia came under increasing pressure from the Russian authorities this week as officials closed several outlets in Moscow and inspected 435 of the fast-food chain’s restaurants across the country, according to the Wall Street Journal. The increased checks come…
Customer Segmentation in Emerging Markets
Who Moved My Cheese? It’s no secret the emerging market business environment has become more challenging over the last few years. Currently, MNC growth rates are contracting on average. An FSG survey of 52 MNC executives revealed that while 1…
PODCAST: Align Staffing for Strategy Execution
Listen as Rich Leggett, CEO of FSG moderates a discussion with Dan Kornfield, Director of Strategic Research on the topic of global workforce planning. Regional executives engaged in high-focus workforce planning outperform their peers in profitability and market share growth.…