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  • Utilities: The road ahead

    February 22, 2012 | Utilities | Bain Brief

    Successful utilities don’t look far afield for growth; they profit from their core and expand from there

  • Net promoter: Creating a reliable metric

    February 14, 2012 | Customer Strategy & Marketing | Bain Brief

    Accurate Net Promoter scores depend on a constant flow of data. Many leading companies survey a sample of their customers every week. But are these scores accurate and reliable? Not always. In the most serious cases, problems with the survey data lead people to mistrust the entire Net Promoter

  • Shintaro Okuno, MBA 2009

    February 08, 2012 | MITSloan Management

    Our work focuses on helping companies deliver results. Visit our publications section, Bain Insights, for the best research and ideas from Bain's experts.

  • Of note: Should Africa be higher on your corporate agenda?

    February 03, 2012 | Consumer Products | Bain newsletters

    If you're like many consumer products executives, the thought of pursuing growth in Africa seriously slows down when you consider the poverty, famine, political instability and risk—factors that would worry any business leader. But over the past decade, the continent has undergone a quiet—yet

  • Lessons from Africa's pioneers

    February 02, 2012 | Consumer Products | Bain industry brief

    How successful consumer products companies overcome the five great challenges of doing business on the continent, including underdeveloped infrastructure, disorganized and fragmented retail landscape, lack of reliable market research, unclear and ever-changing government regulations and a severely

  • Growing with Africa's consumers

    February 02, 2012 | Consumer Products | Bain industry brief

    With its increasing consumer population, Africa shows great promise as the new frontier for consumer products companies pursuing growth. The trouble is that competitors are quickly moving into place, too.

  • Desperately seeking simplicity

    February 02, 2012 | Strategy | HBR.org

    Today, only 9% of businesses in the world have achieved even a modest level of sustained, profitable growth over the past decade on average (5.5%, earning cost of capital) and that is declining — even though virtually all the businesses aspire to something like this or more. Yet, when we ask

  • Forces transforming the content landscape

    February 01, 2012 | Media | World Economic Forum

    A Bain & Company report for the World Economic Forum. We are in the midst of a period of unprecedented media innovation that is changing the lives of billions of people across the globe. It is an exciting time for consumers, as innovators develop new platforms and devices to entertain, inform and

  • Transform your employees into passionate advocates

    January 27, 2012 | Customer Strategy & Marketing | HBR.org

    Loyal, passionate employees bring a company as much benefit as loyal, passionate customers.

  • Guess what - I met an optimist at Davos

    January 26, 2012 | Business Time

    Steve Ellis is featured in a Business Time article for his positive forecast of the global economy during the World Economic Forum. Article author Michael Schuman references, "Ellis believes there are a bunch of trends emerging in the global economy that will provide new sources of growth...Taken