To prepare a road map to fund quality research, attract international faculty.

IIT reforms committee to submit report by year-end

Business Standard

The Centre&rsquo;s decision to give greater autonomy to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will not have an immediate impact on the premiere B-schools.

Foreign faculty: Distant dream for IIMs?

The candidate should reach the exam centre at least two hours before the reporting time. In all likelihood, there will be quite a few students at the exam centre &ndash; do not get intimidated by them.

Online CAT: The countdown begins

    This weekly journal that was in the news recently prints a date on the cover of each issue on which it is to be removed from newsstands and replaced by the next issue. Name the magazine and the term it uses for this date.

Answers to last week's quiz (#171)

    It was established in 1897 by a sociologist, restated by a philologist in 1949, and finally quality guru Joseph Juran give it the name by which it is known now.

The Strategist Quiz (#172)

The olive oil market is currently dominated by brands like Leonardo Olive Oil,Figaro, Nature Fresh Olivante and Del Monte.

KIT: the olive oil market in India

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Adani Wilmar has launched its new edible oil, Fortune Plus, with a new television commercial that went on air recently. The positioning of the new product is &ldquo;oil that&rsquo;s not oily&rdquo;, and the company has roped in ace shuttler Saina Nehwal to endorse it. The campaign focuses on the health benefits of the oil, and targets upper socio-economic groups.

Adani Wilmar: Fortune with less

Hindustan Unilever&rsquo;s oldest tea brand, Brooke Bond Red Label, has launched a new TV campaign. Bollywood actor Anupam Kher can be seen in it propagating the health benefits of tea. It shows Kher discussing healthy living with his grandson. The youngster believes the best way to keep fit is through exercise and is working with dumbbells. And Kher, the health-conscious grandfather, reveals his secret to health &mdash; a cup of chai.

Hindustan Unilever: Harping on health

One of the country&rsquo;s leading pharmaceutical marketers was struggling to maintain its market share in the face of increasing competition. Its sales performance across its 2,000 territories was erratic and seemingly unpredictable.

The changed DNA of growth

What do you do when you run out of steam while following your daily fitness regimen or running to get in shape? Perhaps you gulp an energy drink to pump yourself up and run or train harder. Now, Reebok has launched a new shoe which it touts as &lsquo;the energy drink for your feet&rsquo;. What? Well, yes. Like an energy drink, the company claims, the new shoe, called ZigTech, conserves and returns energy to the athlete so that he can run or train longer and harder.

Getting ziggy with it

Aviation took a hard knock in the slowdown that started in mid-2008. Business since then has improved, but so has the rivalry in the skies. The West Asian carriers with their inexpensive tariffs have posed a serious threat to carriers like Lufthansa on popular routes like India-Europe-USA. Lufthansa Director (South Asia) Axel Hilgers talks to Mihir Mishra and Bhupesh Bhandari on Lufthansa&rsquo;s plans for the Indian market.

Q&A:  Axel Hilgers, Director (South Asia), Lufthansa

McDonald&rsquo;s has ambitious plans to become a breakfast destination as well.

Big Mac's new menu

Nokia is ready with a slew of phones and an overhauled operating system to take on smart phone rivals. Can it outwit the competition? After spending most of 2009 in the shadows of rival smart phone makers like Apple, Nokia is eager to get its share of the limelight. At the core of its strategy is an overhauled operating system called Symbian 3, a slew of smart phones with aggressive price tags and a brand new operating system, MeeGo, which will be showcased later this year.

Smart enough?

A t last count, the Indian mobile handset space had 35 players and market leader Nokia saw its market share slipping from 64 per cent in 2009 to 36 per cent in June this year.

Samsung Mobiles cements second slot

It took a while in coming to India&rsquo;s commercial capital. But when it finally came, Dior did it in style. Mumbai&rsquo;s first Dior boutique spread over 1,300 square feet opened at the Taj Mahal Hotel last week.

Luxury brands going places

Mohammed Ali. Lance Armstrong. New Delhi.

Lessons in brand competitiveness

Last week, the Indian markets were all about coal. However, amidst the hype over the debut of Coal India Ltd (CIL) on domestic bourses, what was mostly overlooked was the brand new logo of the world&rsquo;s largest coal miner.

CIL makes a green statement

Kshitij, the annual techno-management festival of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP)will conduct workshop on Database Management Systems (DBMS) and Robotics on 31 October at the G D Birla Sabhaghar in Kolkata. Two topics will be discussed-DBMS and Robotics.

Kshitij to host workshop in Kolkata

Puducherry-based luxury leather brand Hidesign, in which Louis Vuitton holds a 20 per cent stake, is set to launch its eyewear brand in the next quarter. Also on the cards is a range of jewellery, handbags etc along with designer Rohit Bal.

Q&A: Dilip Kapur, Founder & President, Hidesign

Dell has managed a coup by knocking off HP (Hewlett Packard) from the No. 1 position in the Indian personal computer market, after six years.

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