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Leadership needs a human touch

HR has to take responsibility of ensuring business goals are met

Reimagining change

A five-step framework to reshape strategy in an uncertain world

Time to bury AVE?

Strategic outsourcing partnerships headed for a big shift

The old paradigm of just focusing on operational costs will not work anymore

2013's top ten

When strategy fails

Poor decision-making can kill a strategy if people in the organisation are unable to see it as a source of strategy failure. Lessons learnt from the worst CEOs of 2013

B-schools to move SC against University Grants Commission

At a meeting on Saturday, 100 B-schools, including XLRI Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, decided to approach the apex court

Himalaya bets on personal care to overtake pharma

The company wants to take its success with its neem facewash to other categories by targeting a younger audience

R Gopalakrishnan: Preparing for eureka

Mental preparedness can improve the chances of eureka at will

Holiday Inn ramps up, talks business

The InterContinental group will bet on the mid-segment corporate traveller for traffic at its new hotels, having got positioning lessons from a failed franchise model

Volume rise makes Cera step up branding

Analysts warn that diversification may add to topline but bottomline might suffer as faucets earn low margins

Parents are not bystanders in Bournvita's boxing ring

The milk food drink has also cleverly steered its latest communication to talk about girl empowerment

Firms are ready to pay for talent... we want a more diverse mix in our intake: Vivek Sane

Interview with Director, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management

Education firms learn a few lessons

Slowdown, over-ambition and poor business models bring the once high-flying firms down to earth

Dhoom 3 brings Abhishek & Idea back together

The actor, who featured in hugely successful 'What an Idea Sirji' campaigns, was dropped from all communication from the company

Students' corner

Wait gets longer for mandatory vocational education plan in colleges

Institutes say there are a lot of areas that need to be clarified before it could be made compulsory

900 IIT-Bombay students get job offers

260 companies visited the campus and made job offers

Santa may sell many brands but outvalues all of them

Brand Santa is worth $1.6 tn (around Rs 98.8 lakh cr). Apple, the most valuable brand of 2013 was valued earlier at $87.3 bn

We rarely react to just a concept and make a film without a script: Siddharth Roy Kapoor

Interview with Managing director, the Walt Disney Company India