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Missing footnotes in the infrastructure debate

There is a wide spectrum of issues that impact India's infrastructure such as the concept, implementation and funding. Over and above the structural ...

Strategies of successful brands

In 1992, a research firm gave a market report to Bharti Airtel. Talking about it in a media interview, in 2000, Sunil Mittal reminisced that the ...

Strategies of successful brands

In 1992, a research firm gave a market report to Bharti Airtel. Talking about it in a media interview, in 2000, Sunil Mittal reminisced that the ...

Potential of virtual volunteering

‘Kaho, Karo, ya Karwao,’ or ‘Say, Do, or Get it Done,’ reads the tagline of http://karmayog.org, “a resource that enables you to ‘Improve Your World’ ...

Leverage the ‘pivot point’

When 7-Eleven was expanding its operations in China, what was the outstanding advantage that the company enjoyed? Cleanliness and service, says Good ...

Follow the smart money

Rich foreign governments control impressive amounts of capital today, running to several trillions, but they are relatively new to investing, observes ...

Slow down the process of ageing of firms

The human brain regularly develops rigidities in the form of biases, lack of self-confidence, and habits; and organisational constructs composed of ...

How ISB came into being

It is on a low hill in Gachibowli, about ten miles from Hyderabad, that the book ‘An Idea Whose Time Has Come: The story of the Indian School of ...

Innovative financing of enterprise

The financial bedrock of all active enterprise is risk capital, and the lack of risk capital on suitable terms can all too often frustrate the ...

Journey into Google's brain

Google's eccentric work culture has a lot to do with the company's immense success.

Information is still wealth

As a name, ‘Shawn Haigins’ can seem strange, but that is the anagram of the Ashwin Sanghi, the author of Chanakya’s Chant, described as ‘a historical ...

Impact of comment card

Understanding markets and customers, designing products and services, marketing and selling, producing and delivering products and services, and ...

How and why luxury sells

In today’s Asia, you are what you wear, declares www.cultofthe luxurybrand.com, a site devoted to The Cult of the Luxury Brand by Radha Chadha and ...

Starving economy

When exploitation overtakes creation, and investing is trampled by gambling with someone else's money, what you have is the modern form of ...

Stirring up the havens

A story narrated by Sigmund Freud in ‘The Interpretation of Dreams' is about a man who offered three arguments when accused by his neighbour of ...

Social experiments in gender equity

Originally an introverted game played in Britain and a few of her colonies, cricket has been commodified and marketed to the maximum possible extent, ...

Showmanship on stock exchange

What was the reception that Dick Grasso, the chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange from 1995 to 2003, got from top technology ...

Carrot-and-stick systems

At a time when the debate about soaring executive compensation rages on, what is required of our CEOs is to examine the underlying theories driving ...

Instant transactions drive mobile shopping

A single-click process is the key to impulse mobile engagements.

Showmanship on the stock exchange

What was the reception that Dick Grasso, Chairman and Chief Executive of the New York Stock Exchange from 1995 to 2003, got from top technology ...

Carrot-and-stick systems are for donkeys

At a time when the debate about soaring executive compensation rages on, what is required of our CEOs is to examine the underlying theories driving ...

Simplify mobile commerce on instant channels

Mobile-shopping behaviour is fast and impulsive; and, therefore, slowing down the consumer in any way means possibly losing that consumer and any ...

Mafia lessons for business

Niccolò Machiavelli tells us to gain and keep the upper hand by any means, that there is no such thing as justice, honour, or integrity, and that ...

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 ...