South america

New research identifies 3 strategies organizations can take to engage employees.

There’s strength in numbers.

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

A case study of the Brazilian beef industry.

Companies should hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

How hard-liners got their way.

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

The brutal, 52-year war that has uprooted more than 6 million people is ending.

It opens up a whole new world of digital marketing.

The country’s economic climate has changed.

Acronyms like BRIC can be misleading.

A survey shows a wave of growth in inbound marketing.

Photography: Michael Donald/Redux Pelé was a soccer star at age 16 and became a sports legend over the next four World Cup tournaments, scoring 12 goals and leading Brazil (this year’s host country) to three victories. Now 73, he says he still has three loves: family, futebol, and the public. His latest book is called […]

Selling pharmaceuticals in Latin America is not the same as selling them in the United States or Western Europe. Right off the bat, I can identify four big differences. First, much of the population lacks health insurance that covers prescription drugs for common conditions such as hypertension, arthritis pain, and high cholesterol. So if a […]

How a Brazilian cosmetics giant saw the beauty in neighboring markets

LAN Airlines flourishes by running three distinctly different operations at the same time.

Alegre Hotels has traditionally left promotion to each of its diverse properties. But a looming crisis may call for a new strategy.

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, […]

Editor’s note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Health systems are at a crossroads. Throughout the world, countries at all levels of economic development and with all types of political systems have embarked in a creative search […]

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 […]