Amul, the milk and milk products brand, owned and marketed by Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), has beaten all other Indian brands to notch the 89th position in a &lsquo;Top 1000 Brands of Asia&rsquo; survey conducted by Campaign magazine. It is the third year in a row where Amul has featured in the top 100 of the 1,000 Asian brands covered under the survey.

Amul among top 100 Asian brands

Business Standard

The move is a part of the online giant&rsquo;s efforts to improve Chrome&rsquo;s market share in India.

Google switches on to prime time TV

Can your garments help supplement your daily work-out? Reebok came out with an answer last month by launching the EasyTone range of garments in India.

Garments that work out

Economic liberalisation is often viewed as a new beginning for the Indian economy, but in some ways it marks a circular path to the past. Indian middle class consumers of a certain age will recognise it in the return of a range of brands and services &mdash; Coca Cola, IBM, Hershey&rsquo;s, Shell, Ford, General Motors, private (and foreign) insurance companies, airlines and commodity producers and in the attempted re-privatisation of nationalised firms like Hindustan Copper.

Kanika Datta: Back to the future

To Shobhit Tyagi, head of human resources (denim &amp; corporate) at Arvind Ltd, the hobbies of a B-school candidate matter more than his curriculum vitae.

All work with no play makes dull managers

Two years from now, the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) of the Delhi University will have a new address: The South Campus.

Faculty of Management Studies to have a new address in 2013

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L) has inducted its largest ever Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) batch of 419 students for the 2011-13 session.

IIM-Lucknow inducts largest ever PGP batch of 419

Takers of PhD programme look for an engrossing experience in their subject of interest and a career prospect that includes more respect and demand for their skills, the only impediment being their demand in the industry thereafter.

Student's corner

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A)'s Consult Club, an in-house body of students, has partnered with Breakthrough Management Group International (BMGI), a global consulting firm for organising a pan-IIM event on sector analysis. Titled 'Sectorama', the event is a sector-analysis contest for B-school students held by the IIM-A Consult Club.

IIM-A student club ties up with BMGI for pan-IIM event

The current level of IPO activity in India as well as the world is &quot;low&quot; to support the health of the venture capital industry, says a study.

Weak IPO market to hurt venture capital industry

Press Trust of India

Soaps, detergents, shampoo, hair oil, biscuit and chocolate majors have benefitted big time from their policy of targeting the bottom of the pyramid (BOP), made famous by the late management guru, C K Prahalad. Most FMCG companies today boast of 20-30 per cent of their revenues coming from rural markets.

The Rs 5 conundrum

3D movies, which captivated audiences in theatres, are now set to woo movie buffs on the home screen. Hollywood studios like Walt Disney Studios and Sony Home Entertainment Pictures are introducing popular titles in 3D Blu-ray discs to cash in on the growth of 3D hardware in India.

Walt Disney, Sony warm up to 3D movies at home

For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a far too many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective bosses &mdash; permanently. There&rsquo;s only one problem: even the best-laid plans can go awry.

Shyamal Majumdar: When the boss is always wrong

The Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) will be flagging off the third edition of its initiative iAccelerator from August 1. The incubation centre of IIM-A will be accepting application for its 2011 batch and will be looking at participation from individuals and teams from the internet &amp; mobile domain.

IIM-A's CIIE launches third edition of iAccelerator

Fabindia, Shoppers Stop and four others have shown interest in a public-private partnership with Khadi Bhawans to manage 8 outlets.

Big brands in fray to bond with Khadi

A serial entrepreneur&rsquo;s vision to drive PC adoption in India promises to bring computing power to every household through the innovative use of cloud computing. Novatium, a computing services company founded by Rajesh Jain in 2004, offers a thin client-based computing solution, which is delivered as a utility service to households and requires very low energy to function. The company has filed 10 patents in the areas of utility-based computing services.

Computing power to every home

Are you the boss you need to be? When they are receptive to change managers usually take on new positions and assignments. The ambitious ones stretch themselves to understand the challenges and deliver good results. But as they settle in, they often become complacent &mdash; perhaps because they lose the fear of imminent failure. Linda A Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (HBS), says many of them stop making progress because they simply don&rsquo;t know how to. Hill, who is also the faculty chair of the leadership initiative at HBS, co-authored Being the Boss early this year in which she offers an approach for managers to understand the transformational challenges of their roles and what it takes to become an effective leader. She discusses the approach, which she calls &ldquo;the three imperatives&rdquo;, in a free-wheeling conversation with Amit Ranjan Rai.

Q&A: Linda A Hill, Professor of Business Administration, HBS

The Indian Institute of Management Shillong (IIM-S), through its Centre for Development of North Eastern Region (CEDNER), launched a six month certificate course on Developing Managerial Skills for Entrepreneurs of the region on Saturday under the course directorship of Prof Keya Sengupta.

IIM-Shillong launches new short term course for entrepreneurs

Acouple of months back, confectionery maker Cadbury India entered the Rs 12,000 crore biscuit market with the launch of Oreo sandwich cookies from the global portfolio of its parent Kraft Foods. Oreo is the second product after orange drink Tang from the Kraft stable available in India.

Cadbury India: Bonding over biscuits

Have you ever lied to your boss to avoid going to work? Or lied to your wife to attend a late-night office party? Lie no more, says Intex mobile&rsquo;s latest television commercial for its handset IN 4470 N. It is the first handset in the country to offer the facility of video chatting on a 2G platform, a feature that was thus far associated with 3G phones. To highlight the unique offering, the company&rsquo;s new campaign tells the viewers &ldquo;Ab jo bolna hai muh pe bol.

Intex Technologies: In your face

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