After doing MBA from Harvard, Lavanya Chettiar is working with McKinsey. But her best teacher continues to be her grandfather, Nalli Kuppuswamy Chettiar.

Nalli waits for GenNext

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Indo Nissin&rsquo;s Top Ramen wants to jump on to the health bandwagon; but it would do well to remember that it takes time to win over health-conscious customers.

Instant noodles, instant energy?

After this whirlwind lunch interview, Shivinder M Singh, managing director, Fortis Healthcare (India), cleans up his desk with a paper napkin, folds it neatly and tucks it under his empty plate. Perhaps a fetish for organisation is Singh&rsquo;s vice, but fastidious preparation has worked for him. In 10 years he has taken Fortis Healthcare from a single facility in Mohali to being the largest private healthcare provider in the country on the back of a string of canny acquisitions.

Q&A: Shivinder M Singh, MD, Fortis Healthcare (India)

CavinKare, the Chennai-based manufacturers of hair care, skin care and personal care products, has recently launched a one of its kind double fragrance talcum powder, Cool Duet. As the name suggests, the talcum powder has two fragrances &mdash; first, a &lsquo;flowery minty&rsquo; fragrance that helps one start the day feeling fresh and active, and second &mdash; one which is activated when the user perspires &mdash; is a fruity fragrance which keeps one cool and fresh.

CavinKare: Two better than one

The name&rsquo;s Bond, James Bond.&rdquo; &ldquo;A vodka martini, shaken not stirred.&rdquo; Our favourite secret agent who made these phrases part of popular lexicon is the hero in STAR Movies&rsquo; bid to revive consumption of the English entertainment channels. The James Bond festival on STAR Movies, Bond Forever, will run till July-end. According to viewership data provided by TAM, English entertainment accounts have only 0.1 per cent share and English movie channels 0.7 per cent (in 2010) of the overall television viewership.

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Medicine systems like ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy, unani, siddha and homeopathy (AYUSH) have long enjoyed acceptance among Indian communities. However, owing to inadequate scientific validation, they had not received due recognition in the past.

KIT: Traditional Indian medicine systems

    ______ Smile is the title by which this brand has a presence on Facebook. It encourages you to share your &lsquo;smile&rsquo; by uploading photographs. Fill in the blank with the brand&rsquo;s name.

The Strategist Quiz (#210)

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    Which company unveiled its &lsquo;Sound Charge&rsquo; t-shirt that harnesses the power of sound to charge a cell phone using a material found in hi-fi speakers?&nbsp;
    Orange Telecom, UK&nbsp;
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    In the 80s, the founder CEO of which Fortune top 10 company did a hula (a Hawaiian dance) on Wall Street after his company made a pre-tax profit of 8 per cent for the previous fiscal year?
    Sam Walton of Wal-Mart&nbsp;
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Answers to last week's quiz (#209)

Battery maker Eveready today said it was undertaking an image makeover to position itself as a youth oriented brand, while also introducing more products with advanced technology.

Eveready goes for image makeover

Press Trust of India

The casual luxury brand is planning to expand more in Asia and Europe.

US brand A&F heading east

Waghbakri tea is a known name in Gujarat. It is the market leader in that state with a 45 per cent market share. In recent years, however, the brand has been attempting to go national moving to neighbouring states such as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Goa and Delhi. It has even made inroads into the southern city of Hyderabad.

Regional to national: not an easy ride

Payback, Germany's largest loyalty solution provider, is eyeing a larger slice of the Indian loyalty card pie. The first step was taken last year when it acquired a controlling stake in bonus programme &ldquo;i-mint&rdquo; and rebranded it as Payback India.

Payback's India bet

Has Pantyhose Disappeared From The Workplace? An email bearing this urgent query arrived in my mailbox the day the temperature in New Delhi hit 42 degrees Celsius. Still, deeply touched at being singled out for such advice among millions of netizens by the PR team of Ms Barbara Pachter, I read it carefully.

Kanika Datta: Custom barriers in the workplace

While IIM-A and Frankfurt Book Fair recently joined hands for offering training programmes in publishing and media as part of their executive education programme MDP (management development programme), their team is busy drawing up an action plan for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that they have signed up to take it a step forward.

IIM-A, Frankfurt Book Fair mull conference on publishing

Shed the crammers tag and move beyond mugging up text books to merely score big, instead understand the subject and come up with something innovative.

New-look GRE braces innovation

The initiative by IIT-Kharagpur to get into medical education seems to be defying the purpose for which IITs were set up. The only probable reason for government to do so is to encash the brand of IIT.

Student's corner

After introducing management education in Nepal and Bhutan, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) today said it would be intensifying efforts to take management education to neighbouring and SAARC nations.

IIM-A to take mgmt education to SAARC countries

A couple of years ago, it would have been almost unthinkable to imagine candy-coloured BlackBerry phones in the hands of college youth. BlackBerry was positioned as an enterprise phone for mobile executives &ndash; hence, black in colour. Today, however, one can even spot young college girls in the country, flaunting their pink BlackBerry phones.

Colour works for BlackBerry

It&rsquo;s 10.30 p m and I am driving along Mumbai&rsquo;s Bandstand, a promenade famous for its glitzy nightlife and fancy sea-facing bungalows owned by film stars and industrialists. The beat constable, who is grateful because I agree to his request to give him a lift for a short distance, immediately starts talking about the city that is becoming tired and bitter by the day.

Shyamal Majumdar: The crumbling first line of defence

Even as the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) awaits an approval from the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) on its revised memorandum of association (MoA), the premier B-school has called for institutes to be managed by Boards.

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