Business must pass the marshmallow test
Business must pass the marshmallow test
Seeking instant gratification can be bad for the long-term interest of companies.
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‘The next leg of growth will be more balanced’
‘The next leg of growth will be more balanced’
We may see one more quarter of asset quality pain. The loans which were given at a higher loan-to-value are going out of the system.
Power to price
Power to price
Pricing power is the ability of companies to increase price (usually when input costs increase) and yet retain demand. Sectors and companies that ...
Checkmate the fraudster
Checkmate the fraudster
Zero tolerance towards fraud, corruption and bribery can help mitigate their occurrence at the workplace.
Watch out for the Davids
Watch out for the Davids
Small players have become formidable competitors and pose a real threat to their larger counterparts.
When ideas lose their way
When ideas lose their way
There is every chance for a new strategy to backfire while it is being implemented.
Bring e-commerce into the tax net
Bring e-commerce into the tax net
As the Internet crosses boundaries, the challenge is in developing a rational tax policy for online transactions.
Time’s running out
Time’s running out
The watch business is under threat, not from other watch makers, but from the computing industry.
No one wants to rock the board
No one wants to rock the board
Effective boards are supposed to challenge top management and not shy away from taking tough strategic decisions.
Comfort stations to the rescue
Himachal Pradesh is innovating with community sanitary complexes across districts
When parched fields bloomed with flow of water
An initiative to build groundwater reserves has turned farmers’ fortunes in Raigad district
Project with a difference
To empower rural women and provide them employment, a new group enterprise model has taken shape in Bilaspur, ...
Art on a drawstring
Village women in Punjab are being nudged to revive the dying craft of weaving the ‘azarband’
Big Story: What is the actual fiscal deficit?
In the Budget this year, besides the fisc ratio, pay attention to the critical factors that help understate ...
Go short in rupee with stop-loss at 71.2
Last Friday, the Indian currency (INR) ended the session at 71.33 versus previous week’s close of 71.08, ...
Q3 Comment | Why Bank of Baroda Q3 performance suggests more pain ahead
Sharp rise in slippages, steep divergence and weak core performance are a cause for worry
Q3 results of life insurers: Continued focus on growth drivers
It was business as usual for life insurance companies in the latest December quarter.Continued focus on ...
Sixth anniversary special edition
Celebrate BLink’s sixth birthday with this special anniversary issue; exclusive short stories and poems by ...
To everything, there is a season
A time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to break down, and a time to build up– Ecclesiastes, Ch 3, verse ...
Classical conditioning
With the shrill callof mom’sHawkins Classicfive litre pressure cooker,the aroma of muttoncooked in a coarse ...
The lesson of the quilt
In the 1920s, the Shillong-Sohra road was merely a dirt track used by horse carts and people travelling on ...
Takeaways for marketers from CES 2020
The big P-word — privacy — and other dominating consumer themes from the global stage of innovation
New Year’s Blues
Celebrating the many shades of blue, which is the colour of 2020
When storytelling trumps statistics
Four Seasons’s Envoy programme gives a new spin to the concept by choosing content over followers
Year in Review: Winning ways of brands in 2019
Which advertising campaigns stood out and why
The trauma of internet shutdown
Shutdowns in India in 2019 are estimated to have led to a loss of over $1.3 billion. Forum Gandhi reports on ...
Agri business and tourism bear the brunt
Small traders of farm produce took a big hit with disruption in online bill processing
Trends up to January 8, 2020
Type of shutdownOf the 381 internet shutdowns recorded between January 2012 and January 4, 2020, 236 were ...
Come and see the students on the streets
The protests over CAA-NRC-NPR have acted as a trigger, uniting youth across religious beliefs and communities ...