B-schools should tell you how to cope with real-life situations like layoffs, mid-life crises and bad bosses

'B-school graduates have unrealistic expectations'

Business Standard

Answers to The Strategist biz quiz

A recent CII seminar re-emphasised the role of HR in shaping corporate performance

HR as a change agent

Can global benchmarking for performance and HR practices be relevant for corporations in India? Ericsson India discovers that it can

Global index, local gain

Pharma companies are jumping on the retail bandwagon. Does it work?

Retail therapy

With its affordable in-house apparel label, the retail chain seems to have figured out the winning formula

Westside Story

Kalpana Pathak reports on the battle between ICFAI and a US institute.

Sparks fly over CFA trademark

Though a large part of India is still at the 'bottom of the pyramid' and faces multiple constraints, the future innovations globally are going to come through these constraints. This was the

'Next consumer practice could be from India'

There are 84.2 million mobile subscribers in India. That figure is growing at 4.2 per cent every month. By end-2007, the number of mobile subscribers is expected to reach 207 million.

Strategic tools for the practising manager

The government today gave its nod to Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) to go global after amending their memoranda of associations (MoAs), and, in a quid pro quo, the institutes decided to

Govt allows IIMs to set up campus abroad

Press Trust of India

The government has decided to allow the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B) to set up a campus abroad. This comes after the institute indicated that it agreed with conditions laid

IIM Bangalore gets to go abroad

As Sachin Tendulkar fell to his knees trying in vain to keep out a ball that went on to hit the timber, several questions arose about his future as brand ambassador. While these remain just

Brand Sachin needs a few tons

Progressive decline in ad expense to net sales ratio. 


More bang for the ad buck

The Gitanjali Group (Gitanjali) has reworked its corporate imagery to reflect its growth strategy. Starting its journey in 1966 as a processor of rough diamonds for the jewellery trade at Surat, Gujarat, it currently manufactures and retails gold and diamond jewellery, apart from owning a chain of lifestyle stores. The journey has made Gitanjali Group Managing Director Mehul Choksi believe that Gitanjali can become the largest luxury brand from India.

Gilded ambition

Toshiba Corporation, the Japanese electronics and consumer products company, has big plans for India. To this end, Toshiba India, the Indian subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, has unveiled a slew of new products, a new business strategy and a new ad campaign to capture a larger share of the lucrative Indian market.

Ready for a larger share

Lifebuoy, Surf Excel, Pureit &amp; Brooke Bond Sehatmand lead HUL&rsquo;s sustainable living plan.

Smart marketing = doing good

The International Baccalaureate (IB) organisation was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1968.The IB curriculum is aimed to develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalising world.

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The top 10 business bestsellers

    He is known as &ldquo;any time, any quantity man&rdquo;. Name the person and his company which were in the news recently.

The Strategist Quiz (#212)

    Oreo. TLD stands for Twist, Lick, Dunk.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#211)

So now it appears that the Tata search committee has decided that an &ldquo;insider&rdquo; will be Ratan Tata&rsquo;s successor as group chairman when he steps down in December next year (&ldquo;Consensus grows on an internal Tata successor&rdquo;, Business Standard, August 29). And, yes, it&rsquo;s easy to think the result is a foregone conclusion because one &ldquo;insider&rdquo; in the running is a member of the promoter family and of &ldquo;a particular community&rdquo; as one irate letter writer from Kolkata phrased it. But even if we set aside suspicions of future nepotism, the search committee could have saved itself a lot of time if it had taken that decision from the start. Globally, &ldquo;insider&rdquo; successors to CEOs are considered the best option for a conglomerate that is stable and growing &mdash; which would pretty much apply to most of the Tata group.

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