How do you measure a company&rsquo;s innovation mindset? Ask the Tata group.

Shyamal Majumdar: Measuring innovation

Business Standard

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) may soon have their first overseas campus in Mauritius with the island country keen on Indian technical institutes, including IITs and private institutes, setting up campuses there. The proposal is under consideration by the Ministry of Human Resources Development.

Mauritius warms up to IITs too

Ivy League institutions like Harvard and Yale along with other renowned varsities like Stanford, INSEAD and the Indian School of Business and organisations such as the UK Border Agency will now be accepting Pearson&rsquo;s PTE Academic scores.

Harvard, Stanford, Yale to accept PTE scores

By becoming, perhaps, the first among the new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to offer students an opportunity to change their branches in their second year, IIT-Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) has chosen a liberal path. The institute clearly intends to stand out by offering better pay packages over and above the government salaries to attract faculty. Sudhir Jain, director of IIT-Gandhinagar talks to Vinay Umarji on what are the institute's learnings from the older IITs.

Q&A: Sudhir Jain, Director, IIT-Gandhinagar

Mastercard has pulled off a casting coup of sorts. The global credit-card payments company has roped in cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan for its latest campaign on the theme of &lsquo;Escape&rsquo;.

Mastercard: No escape

Fox International Channels, owned by Rupert Murdoch&rsquo;s News Corp, has launched a bevy of specialty channels to target the Indian audience: FX, FOX Crime, Nat Geo Music, Nat Geo Adventure, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo HD and Baby TV. While FX is an English general entertainment channel and Nat Geo HD is the high-definition feed of National Geographic, the rest are niche channels. These would add to its existing channels, National Geographic and Fox History, and counter competition from Discovery and BBC&rsquo;s special interest channels which are being lined up for India.

Fox International Channels: Fox on the trot

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KIT: The Indian superbike market

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Its track record has been patchy, but the carmaker wants to launch at least one model every year.

Skoda changing gears

Mukesh Ambani is re-entering the telecom business and is betting big on wireless broadband.

Back to data

AAAI rift out in the open

FieldFresh Foods wants Del Monte to become one of the country&rsquo;s top food and beverages brands.

The Del Monte difference

Hindustan Unilever has rolled out a fabric conditioner after almost four years of test-marketing.

Comfort factor

Philips wants to grow at double the rate of the country&rsquo;s gross domestic product. With the government confident of 9 per cent growth in the current financial year, the task for Philips is cut out: It has to grow its business at least 18 per cent. Philips has three businesses in India: Lighting, healthcare and consumer lifestyle.

Philips' new design for growth

In a couple of weeks, a team headed by Ajit Balakrishnan is expected to submit its report, which addresses ways to solve the staff crunch at IIMs.

Panacea for Iim faculty crunch?

In its first investment in the education sector, ICICI Venture is using its Mezzanine Fund to put in money in the country&rsquo;s largest international baccalaureate chain, based in Hyderabad.

ICICI Venture invests in Hyderabad school chain

At the start of the current Fifa World Cup, a leading investment bank had come out with a quantitative guide to the World Cup 2010 wherein, using a sophisticated quant model, England was the predicted winner, followed by Spain and the Netherlands. While England has already made an inglorious exit, fate of the other two shall be known in the coming days.

Arvind Singhal: Intuitive decision-making

The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has planned to set up a 550 kilowatt (Kw) Solar Energy Research Experimental Station (SERES) in its campus. The station would serve the purpose of solar energy development research apart from a pilot project for improving the commercial viability of solar energy generation.

IIT-Kanpur to set up experimental solar power plant

Croma, the Tata group&rsquo;s electronic and durables chain, seems to be making up for lost time. The retail chain, which opened just 50 stores in the last four years, is launching three stores every month in the current financial year. The 50th store was opened last week in Bangalore.

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