The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 02, 2007

MANAGEMENT
Be a mentor to yourself
One casualty of a highly pressured executive life is any kind of reading or discussion of subjects beyond the needs of the current job. What leisure there is, therefore, is spent in front of the TV set or with friends. Anything that is not ... More

RURAL DEVELOPMENT
The importance of inclusive development
Including the poor is much more advantageous than excluding them even if they have only social, and not `legal,' rights. Official plans invariably exclude the poor and thus planners get into serious trouble, says P. V. INDIRESAN. More

HUMAN RESOURCES
Performing vs high-flying
Long many years ago, there was a book titled How to succeed in business without really trying? which took the publishing world by storm and sold millions of copies. It was written in a ... More

MORTGAGE
For realistic lending to the poor
The sub-prime problem in the US has raised the question if unscrupulous lenders pushed such loans disproportionately on the poor who were not aware or could not understand the implications of these special terms. This is unlike the experiences in Ban gladesh and Thailand. More

VENTURE CAPITAL
VC WE SEE
What after Google, YouTube...
Venture capital is a growing market in India, like private equity. We are seeing significant entrepreneurial activity across both early and late stage investing. More

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