* Mumbai: RBI Governor D Subbarao to address Ficci members on &ldquo;How to bring back to earlier growth trajectory: Short and long term measures&rdquo; at the Hotel Taj Mahal, Colaba, Mumbai.

RBI Gov's vision on growth trajectory

Business Standard

Maruti 800 revolutionised motoring in India even though it never got a proper name. As it prepares to ride into the sunset, here is a look into the rear-view mirror.

The long ride of a nameless car

New services will bring the IPL to mobile phone screens.

Telcos look to join the league

Advertising agencies&rsquo; new innings in sports marketing is not playing out very well for them. Some have already shut down their fledgling sports marketing arms; others have reduced the staff strength.

Sports fail to score for advertising agencies

The CLIO Awards, an international advertising and design competition honouring creative excellence and innovation, will present Dan Wieden, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wieden+Kennedy (W+K), with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 50th Anniversary CLIO Awards in May. The award recognises the contribution of an individual who takes the industry forward. Suvi Dogra and Sapna Agarwal caught up with Wieden at the Goa Ad Fest.

&#39;We are practical and don&#39;t worry about competition&#39;

    Sitting at his home office in the Indian subcontinent, he used a Kaypro computer and a modem to communicate with his contact in Los Angeles while working on a movie script in the mid-80s. Name him.

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Nestle India is set to roll out a new marketing drive to mark the 25th anniversary this week of its instant noodles brand, Maggi.

Maggi turns 25, Nestle to unveil new campaign

How MTV revamped itself, gained viewership and made money.

Reality remix

Nirmalya Kumar is professor of marketing and co-director of the Aditya Birla India Centre at the London Business School.

'Wealth may be down, but acquisitions won&#39;t stop'

Indian tea connoisseurs, used to their cup of Darjeeling or Classic Assam, had no taste for green tea till recently. The issue was availability. It could be had either in expensive hotels or in select outlets and was mostly of the imported variety. It was too niche a market to excite the entrenched tea companies.

Green to Gold

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In a bid to study the dynamics of the Indian market before setting up their businesses here, UK-based small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have come down to the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) for a training programme. This is probably for the first time that any foreign SME units are being trained at the institute.

UK-based SMEs undergo training at IIM-A

THE NUMBER OF Internet users in India is close to 60 million or about 5 per cent of the population.

KIT: Internet for leisure

    After a strike in 1950, the workers in this company were given lifetime employment. One of its managers developed ways to increase efficiency without cutting jobs, leading to &quot;pull production&quot; in 1954 and subsequently &quot;total quality control&quot;. Name the company and the manager.

The Strategist Quiz (#093)

For all those who believed that graduates from elite institutes like the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) would prefer job security and high salaries to career growth, a survey states that 77 per cent of top business school graduates value opportunities for career growth over job security or a fat pay, even amid the global meltdown.

'Top MBAs value career growth over job security'

Placements for IIM-Calcutta&rsquo;s 2nd Post Graduate Programme for Executives (PGPEX) saw the entire batch getting placed.

IIM-C&#39;s PGPEX batch average salary falls by 11%

The diamond industry needs consolidation, feels the premier institute.

Diamond polishing units should form a co-op: IIM-A

Gujarat education department will put the Japanese management technique of Kaizen into practice with a view to enhancing efficiency and productivity.

Guj edu dept to adopt Japanese mgmt tech

Press Trust of India

Every year, telecom service companies spend hundreds of crores on brand-building. Filmdom and cricket celebrities make good money in the bargain and ad agencies cut a hefty commission. And that seems to be about it.

Bhupesh Bhandari: Ringing out brands

Hyderabad-based entrance exam coaching institute, Triumphant Institute of Management Education (TIME) is expanding its footprint in India by setting up more pre-schools, two Central Board of Secondary Education CBSE schools and more coaching institutes, to achieve this target.

TIME to expand footprint in India

Before signing Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the youth ambassador for Dabur Chyawanprash to work along with its existing brand ambassador, Amitabh Bachchan, Dabur conducted some consumer checks to find out which young celebrity represented the values of inner strength and leadership.

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