The Hindu Business Line : Monday, May 08, 2006

Spreading their wings
Heirs to family-run businesses in India are opting to do an MBA and work elsewhere, before returning to the family business. More

`Soft skills matter'
After working for almost a year as an engineer after his B.Tech from IIT, Kanpur, Manu S Dua, VP, Corporate Sales and Structuring, Citigroup, realised that while he was contributing technically to his personal growth and the company's, he felt he ... More

Handling complexity
Problem-solving becomes difficult when we try to pierce the heart of the issue straight. More

Purpose defines cost
Full costs are neither possible to determine with any degree of accuracy nor recover, in all cases especially where there are multiple brands and product lines. More

EDUCATION

Glee at GLIM
Expanding its global reach, the Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM) will be signing memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with two institutes abroad in the following year, according to Dr Bala V. Balachandran, Founder and Honorary Dean, GLIM. ... More

INTERVIEW

`B-schools need hands-on courses'
The India MD of McKinsey & Company on the corporate world today and the role of Indian global managers. More

WORK LIFE

More than just `hello' and `goodbye'
Be conscious of telephone etiquette and treat every phone call as a face-to-face meeting. More

Spirituality for success
On how organisations that have worked without expecting specific results have gained in the long run More

PEOPLE

Leader Speak
To all the young hopefuls out there who plan on being a manager someday, somewhere, let me tell you about the qualities that have influenced me in my own growth. These have stood the test of time and are as relevant as they were years ago. In ... More

BOOKS

A call for evidence-based management
Do you make the right decisions, or do you simply copy "what seems to work for other companies"? This is the question that two Stanford professors Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton pose in `Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense,' More