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Let go of anecdotal economics

Teaching of economics needs to include a more pragmatic approach, says Joseph H. Ellis in ‘ Ahead of the Curve: A commonsense guide to forecasting ...

Damage by bosses, colleagues

Sample these startling statistics, cited in ‘ The Cost of Bad Behavior: How incivility is damaging your business and what to do about it' by Christine ...

Damage caused by bad bosses, rude colleagues

Sample these startling statistics, cited in The Cost of Bad Behavior: How incivility is damaging your business and what to do about it by Christine ...

Let go of anecdotal economics

Teaching of economics needs to include a more pragmatic approach, says Joseph H. Ellis in ‘Ahead of the Curve: A commonsense guide to forecasting ...

Holistic financial planning

To those who are looking for ‘the distinctive business strategies of leading financial planners,’ a handy reference can be Mary Rowland’s ‘In Search ...

Commit to communication convergence

Telecom growth and convergence very much depend on stable and forward-looking regulatory polices which are implemented in tune with technology ...

Poorest on advantageous trajectories

Stated simply, ‘improvement in road infrastructure' may sound like a drab phrase. But, to farmers in Siay in the Philippines, it meant ‘significant ...

Financing farmers

Negotiable warehouse receipts (or NWRs), backed by the underlying commodities, are an integral part of the marketing and financial systems of most ...

DRT discipline

If you are looking for a new tax, consider James Pierlot's ‘ Proposal for a Debt-Reduction Tax' or DRT, a paper arguing that tax cuts and spending ...

Integrity lessons

In a world of half truths, we face the lifelong challenge of telling the whole truth even when it is inconvenient, write John Yates and Susan ...

Decoding corporate disasters

The foremost reason behind corporate disasters is the ‘shareholder-only approach,' say R. Durgadoss and B. Yerram Raju in ‘ A Saint in the Board Room' ...

Mismatch of finance and governance

Keeping financial markets global while at the same time making them safe requires tighter, better cooperation among countries – not only on financial ...

Convergence conundrum

Taxation is generally seen as a technical task, but it is also fundamentally about the rules of the game that determine, among other things, the level ...

Strengthening human relations in an online world

The internet explosion has changed the protocol for creating and maintaining relationships.

iMean what iSay

Walter Isaacson reveals the emotional, and sometimes unpleasant side of Steve Jobs.

Weaving through market waves

Named after Ralph Nelson Elliott (1871-1948), the ‘Elliott Wave Theory' is that the movement of the stock market can be predicted by observing and ...

The angst of Steve Jobs

Apart from being a brutally honest depiction of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's gripping biography portrays how one of America's most charismatic tech personalities shied away from emotional issues.

Welcome to the world of social media

What is happening faster than cat videos on YouTube? “Opportunities in corporate social media,” say Nick Smith and Robert Wollan, in The Social ...

Munificent allocation

A section titled ‘The costs of a fragmented approach' in ‘ Water: Asia's new battleground' by Brahma Chellaney (Harper) frets that the absence of ...

Ambition to action

The most stubborn myth in traditional management is probably that the only way to manage costs is through detailed cost budgets, with a tight ...

Give adequate resources to prudential regulators

A sombre concluding thought in ‘Monetary Policy Strategy: Lessons from the Crisis,’ a recent paper by Frederic S. Mishkin, is that we have just been ...

Focus on the market structure

The real secret to successful trading is the integration of money management and market structure, says Felipe Tudela in Trading Triads: Unlocking ...

Some lowdown on the state of forests

In July 2000, Paul Greenough visited the 800 sq.km. Sariska tiger reserve, “being one of the most unlikely reserves in India … that didn't require ...

A mellow view of icons

It's not an easy task to take twenty iconic figures known so well to people all across the globe and write their life sketches afresh. That too, with ...

Wanted, an effective asset allocation index

Despite the plethora of index funds and ETFs (exchange traded funds), there is one investment solution that index investors still need, that does not ...

Policy options of a small open economy

Research Round-Up

Business dynamism vs entrenchment advantage

Corporate profits generally make for happy tidings for investors, but a worrying question put forth by a paper in ‘ India Policy Forum 2010-11: ...

Wide canvas, diffuse portrait

This compilation of essays written by Rajiv Kumar, Director-General of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), first ...

More than casinos of globalisation

In the five years or so since the advent of the NURM (National Urban Renewal Mission), it is possible that its basic objectives have become blurred ...

Learning from the lives of judges

The life stories of Supreme Court judges, close to a span of forty years, through biographical sketches of how they had come to occupy the pinnacle ...

Restoring the core of capitalism

The world being a crowded, politically unstable, and economically inequitable place, the prosperity of its inhabitants depends in considerable part ...

Stepping stones in finance education

N. Ramachandran and Ram Kumar Kakani have come up with a series of ‘How to' books, on reading a cash flow statement and profit and loss statement, ...

Wise incentives for management teachers

Money still continues to be the single largest motivating and retention factor for any employee, more so for a knowledge worker such as management ...

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