The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 07, 2005

Outsourcing captures Europe's imagination
SOME will cringe at, though others may delight in, a dictionary that defines historic monuments as `fixed assets' and lemons as `defective capital goods'. One of the most useful and entertaining dictionaries online is ... More

EDITORIAL

Banking by rating
TILL A DAY ago Sachin Tendulkar seemed the lone world-class Indian. Now, Infosys and Tata Steel can proudly sport international colours with Standard & Poor's Ratings Services rating them higher than Sovereign India. S&P has marked up Infosys More

POLITICS

Country in quandary
EVER since the references in the Volcker report to the Congress Party and the External Affairs Minister, Mr Natwar Singh, became public knowledge, the country has been in a quandary as to whom to believe, and whom to disbelieve. Here is a ... More

MANAGEMENT

The D factor — Making people deserve what they desire
MICHELLE WIE became a professional golfer, multi-millionaire and global brand between breakfast and the first bell at the nearby Punahou School where she studies, says a bbc.co.uk report, describing the latest ... More

WTO

Doha Round on a knife-edge
The Doha Round is delicately poised and it seems only a miracle at Hong Kong, the last checkpoint of progress, can push it forward. If the Hong Kong meeting has nothing important to tell the world about the ongoing negotiations the completion schedul e of the Round itself would have to be pushed back, which would deal it a fatal blow. So, in the interest of the developing world that miracle is urgently needed. More

MARKETING

Culture is just the icing
Consumer behaviour is largely a matter of the lifecycle stage in a nation's economy at a given point in time and not, as is commonly believed, owing to culture. More

RETAILING

Retail: Bonanza or trap?
THE story is told by the late Mr Prakash Tandon, former Chairman of Hindustan Lever, in his memoirs of Unilever considering company-owned retail shops taking control of their retail distribution in India back in the ... More

PEOPLE

New Fed Chairman from February — Daunting task before Bernanke
To succeed the US Fed Chairman, Mr Alan Greenspan, is a challenge, especially when the successor is a comparatively unknown, albeit brilliant, economist. Mr Ben Bernanke has a daunting task ahead of him considering that the Fed is today less in comm and of its economic circumstances than before. But, judging by his stand in his speeches and writings, he may well surprise the world by an innovative and unconventional approach to global economic problems, says S. Venkitaramanan. More

LETTERS

FDI in retail

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