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The top 10 business bestsellers

Business Standard

Leisure biking seems to be catching on in India with BMW, Hyosung and Ducati all setting up shop in India. While all other manufacturers are currently importing these mean machines into the country, Harley-Davidson, the American cult bike maker, has announced plans to make operational an assembly unit at Bawal, Haryana, early next year to make more accessible its range of products to consumers here. Also on the cards is a low-cost product Harley wants to develop for the Indian market. India features prominently in Harley&rsquo;s plans, Anoop Prakash, managing director, Harley Davidson India, says, and efforts are on to make it the largest in Asia over the coming decade.

Harley-Davidson: On the fast track

Canon is augmenting its retail initiative through the launch of the brand&rsquo;s first stand-alone store, Canon Image Square, in Noida, a suburb of New Delhi. The focus at the exclusive store will be the brand&rsquo;s consumer digital imaging range, where one can choose from 80 stock-keeping units, including D-SLRs and lenses, camcorders, photo, ink-jet and laser printers and digital accessories.

Canon India: Exclusive retail foray

Havells has turned around its loss-making global subsidiary, Sylvania, into a profitable business.

Sylvania lights up, again

Magazine publisher Cond&eacute; Nast has clearly marked out its target &mdash; the affluent Indian.

Digests for the Affluent

How can companies enter markets with strong incumbents and still grow substantially? Disruptive innovation is an important tool to achieve such growth. Companies may enter by creating a new market altogether, or by creating a new business model which changes the rules of the game.

Growth through disruptive innovation

Bharat Forge and Alstom, its Paris-based partner, recently edged out local heavyweight Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) and Chinese price warriors to win the Rs9,200-crore contract from state-owned power producer NTPC for five supercritical turbine generators of 660 MW each. Such orders are always placed with the lowest bidder, provided it has the technical expertise. Bharat Forge and Alstom, it is learnt, quoted a price that was significantly lower than others.

Bharat Forge remoulds

International university endowment funds have stepped up their presence in the Indian stock markets to cash in on the high returns.

Destination India for global university funds

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), the oldest IIM in the country, is considering setting up another campus.

IIM-C mulls setting up another campus

Indian companies are seeking tax break from the government to increase their share of endowments to higher education institutions.

India Inc eyes endowment tax break

Pre-placement offers (PPOs) at Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) continue to pour in. As the IITs prepare for the final placement process beginning December, companies are making pre-placement offers for final-year students.

Boom time for IITs: Job offers continue to pour

Amitabh Bachhan puts &lsquo;safed tika&rsquo; of Himani Boroplus Antiseptic Cream and is followed by people from across the country doing the same. The latest TVC of the Emami Group&rsquo;s premier skin care product ends with the tagline of &lsquo;safed tika, taki sardi ki nazaar na lage&rsquo;.

Skincare brands warm up to winter

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    Whose favourite allegory is a character called Mr Market that was used in his all-time popular book?
    Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham in 1949&nbsp;
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    Which brand holds the record for fabricating the longest tie in the world that was displayed outside on its premises?
    Shoppers Stop, Mumbai (the tie was made by Zodiac)&nbsp;
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    Recently, this brand had to revert to its original logo after users on social media sites rejected its new

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#174)

Tashi wasn&rsquo;t Tata International&rsquo;s debut in footwear retailing as the company had launched the Stryde brand a decade ago. That failed experiment, however, didn&rsquo;t come in the way of the hype that Tashi has generated since its launch a month back.

Noel Tata puts his best foot forward

Richard Hartell is the Chief Strategy Officer at Starcom Mediavest, responsible for the Europe, Middle East and African (EMEA) region. Hartell was in Mumbai recently as chairperson of the agency&rsquo;s global product committee (GPC). He spoke to Viveat Susan Pinto about the performance of emerging markets such as India.

Q&A: Richard Hartell, Chief Strategy Officer, Starcom Mediavest, EMEA

    An aggressive corporate acquisition of an entity called TomorrowNow has become TomorrowNever. Name the owner and the reason for its closure.

The Strategist Quiz (#175)

Sales and marketing were the most prefer-red sectors at the Indian Institute of Manage-ment, Kozhikode (IIMK) summer placements prog-ramme, accounting for 25 percent of the total offers for its 14th batch of post gradu-ate programme (PGP) today.

Sales, marketing top at IIMK summer placements

Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) will organise Backwater v2.10, the annual business school meet from November 19-21.&nbsp;The theme of the fest this year is to 'Discover the Difference' &ndash; where the intention is to revive, redeem and reaffirm the unique facets of India Inc.

Disover the difference to be the theme of IIMK fest

At the golden jubilee celebrations, of the oldest Indian Institute of Management, in Calcutta, managers and academicians termed the pursuit of money, a sure shot road to failure.

IIMs to create managers with right values

Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIMC) summer placement for 2010-12 batch saw a total 75 international offers, including one from a leading hedge fund.

IIM Calcutta summer placement gets 75 international offers

Press Trust of India

The summer placement season has been buoyant at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). There were 100 offers for IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) students. Those at IIM Kozhikode saw an 80 per cent rise in stipends. All 414 students at IIM Lucknow (IIM-L) have got internships.

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