Welcome to McKinsey Quarterly, the business journal of McKinsey & Company.
DECEMBER 2008
The region has been hit hard but can help the world recover. Meanwhile, the global crisis is likely to spur further integration among Asian markets.
"You make sure people have the right priorities. You say, 'I know you like to do this or that, but that’s not what we are going to do now.' " – Idris Jala
NOVEMBER 2008
Idris Jala led the state-controlled carrier from the brink of bankruptcy to record-breaking profits. Now he wants it to become what he calls a “five-star value carrier.”
SEPTEMBER 2008
Yongmaan Park discusses the forces that changed the company’s core business and led to South Korea’s largest foreign acquisition.
AUGUST 2007
Over the next two decades, the country’s middle class will grow from about 5 percent of the population to more than 40 percent and create the world’s fifth-largest consumer market.
FEBRUARY 2006
The pressure keeps growing for companies to tackle a range of governance issues.
FEBRUARY 2005
Western companies think too narrowly about the emerging world. If they aren’t careful, they may end up as defenders, not attackers.
DECEMBER 2004
The world’s two biggest developing countries are taking different paths to economic prosperity. Which is the better one?
MARCH 2008
This small but lively banking market encompasses the region’s largest generation gap in attitudes toward banking.
OCTOBER 2007
A merger between Southeast Asian exchanges may be unlikely now, but some will fall significantly behind their competitors elsewhere unless policy makers develop consistent policies and regulations across the region.
NOVEMBER 2006
Reducing government interference in the financial sector and strengthening its market orientation are essential to make it allocate capital efficiently and meet the needs of savers.
NOVEMBER 2002
When is a good time to make strategic advances? During a crisis, of course.
JUNE 2006
SEPTEMBER 2005
Japan’s experience provides an excellent road map for anyone who wants to gauge how China can deal with its environmental problems.
JULY 2008
In a country with a major pollution problem, Wang Yusuo is trying to build a part of the solution.
MAY 2008
A combination of reforms is needed to ease the burden on Japan’s health care system
DECEMBER 2007
Makers of generic and branded drugs alike stand to gain by developing the country's fledgling market.
MAY 2005
The rapid aging of the Japanese population will dramatically reduce savings and wealth—and cut off an important supply of capital to the world.
AUGUST 2004
The slogan ‘no growth without reform’ has never been more appropriate.
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