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    Which brand has used the lava of a European volcano for one of its world-famous products? This lava has a high degree of resilience. It&rsquo;s flame proof, and it absorbs hand sweat during use.

The Strategist Quiz (#179)

    This industry is showing signs of a crisis in India. The creator of Gulliver&rsquo;s Travels was the first to establish it way back in the early 1700s. Name him and the industry.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#178)

It&rsquo;s not only raining jobs at the IITs but also at regional colleges.

Engg colleges strike gold this season

A common consensus among B-schools that the placements this year maybe nearing the 2007-08 levels is hard to dispute.

Lateral placement gets its due at business schools

Manipal Education which has formed the corporate education initiative- ICICI Manipal Academy (IMA) &ndash;with ICICI Bank is expanding this partnership by adding capacity in the academy&rsquo;s campus in Bangalore.

ICICI Manipal Academy expands partnership

Bala V Balachandran, founder &amp; dean of Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai, is in talks with Tata Foundation and Pirojsha Godrej Foundation to sell nearly 51 per cent stake in his institute.

Great Lakes B-school in talks with Tata and Godrej to sell 51%

The business model is actually quite simple. If you want to get into value housing, it is better to approach the business like a manufacturer of steel or cement. Land is the raw material; do not hoard it for value appreciation. Build the project as fast as possible and deliver in 18 months. Don&rsquo;t get greedy for 80 per cent return on equity, be happy with 20 to 25 per cent.

Jerry Rao's value deal

In a bid to develop itself as a centre of excellence in research and academics, the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) is organising a &lsquo;Leadership Conclave&rsquo; on its premises.

IIT-G to host Leadership meet

Sapient was founded in 1991 as a technology consulting firm. Over the years, it has grown into a global services company with over 8,500 employees, more than half of them based in India.

Q&A: Alan Herrick, President and CEO, Sapient

Four agencies have seen incumbent heads move on in the last few weeks.

Season of change at the top

Tata Steel recently announced its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2010. Hidden in the maze of numbers was the performance of its subsidiary, Tata Steel Europe (earlier known as Corus). It posted an operating profit of Rs 886 crore against a loss of Rs 1,802 crore in the same quarter of the previous financial year.

Tata steels the show

The retail chain goes in for large-format stores.

NEXT plays catch-up

Bollywood has harnessed only a tiny part of the immense power of in-film branding.

Branding in films

At the end of a rather dormant year, the television industry has just seen two new channels; some more are expected to follow next year. This takes the number of channels in India to 515, of which 150 are pay, according to TAM data.

TV show time gets bigger

The lingerie market in India is estimated to be Rs 7,440 crore.

KIT: The lingerie market in India

Indian employees are developing their own personal brands to keep pace with a fast-changing workplace, says a recently concluded survey.

Indians developing personal brands to adjust to workplace

Press Trust of India

The apparel &amp; textile major now wants separate strategies for each of its brands.

S Kumars goes in for branding rejig

The packaged foods firm is stepping up presence in customised instant mixes.

MTR's makeover

CIIE Initiatives, a non-profit company set up by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad&rsquo;s incubator-cum-angel investor, the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), is in talks with the central government and private organisations for establishing a renewable energy fund.

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The 20th International World Wide Web (WWW) conference will be held here on March 28, in association with the International Institute of Information Technology (III-T) Hyderabad, IIIT-B (Bangalore) and the Institute of Information Technology (IIT) Bombay.

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