The Hindu Business Line : Monday, October 27, 2008

THE NEW MANAGER

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Making acquisitions work
Strategies to succeed in the acquisition game. Acquisitions are where management theory is seriously in conflict with management practice. A number of research articles have shown that more than 75 per cent of acquisitions have failed to ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Let people develop their skills
Companies love off-site meetings. Meetings in which strategies are debated are even more special and great effort is taken to hold such events in exotic locales. These are normally positioned as events where the managers who are fortunate enough ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Slow HR
Simple strategies for managing HR in recessionary times. The ‘slow’ movement has been in existence for a while in Europe. It first began when a protest against the opening of a McDonald’s restaurant in Rome sparked the creation ...

ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Class-room lessons for those enterprising women
Goldman Sachs, ISB join hands to train women entrepreneurs. Even as the corporate world celebrates the rise of women in its ranks, thousands of women entrepreneurs are working hard to prove that even when it comes to starting and sustaining a ...

MARKETING RESEARCH: Research panels
Market research is a field that is growing in importance as markets across the world become more competitive in all product and service categories. Most developed economies have a few research panels tracking ...

BOOKS: Magic happens with real inclusion
Business leadership is a lot like parenting, says Lee Cockerell in Creating Magic ( www.rbooks.co.uk). “Just as great parents pay attention to everyone in their family, so ...

MANAGEMENT: Small has potential
While the economic slowdown in the US and parts of Europe may be sending some tremors among young managers about a possible dip in global opportunities, there is some reason to cheer as small and medium enterprises in India offer an ...

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