A McKinsey Quarterly survey finds that supply chain risk is rising sharply.

Managing global supply chains

Business Standard

Slower sales in the peak of summer coupled with fewer consumer finance options has compelled Godrej Appliances to rework its sales strategy for remaining part of the year.

Godrej to rework strategy to boost sagging sales

Max New York Life Insurance is revamping the brand and is changing its tagline from &ldquo;Your Partner for Life&rdquo; to &ldquo;Karo Zyaada Ka Iraada&rdquo;.

Max New York to revamp brand, change tagline

LIFESTYLE: Flavoured vodka catches the fancy of top liquor companies.

Kiwi, chocolate, lemon or passion fruit?

To usher in a new era in the dairy sector and emerge as leader in milk production and collection, the Uttar Pradesh government is ambitiously working on the &lsquo;cold chain development&rsquo;

UP aims to augment milk production by 11th Plan end

Most middle level managers face a common hurdle when it comes to delivering customer service.

Top management vital for customer care: study

Kolkata-based Annex College of Management Studies (ACMS) joined hands with Birmingham College, United Kingdom to offer the MBA aspirants of West Bengal and Eastern India a taste of international

Annex to offer Birmingham College courses

Book extract from Bill Lane's Jacked Up - The Inside Story of How Jack Welch Talked GE into Becoming the World's Greatest Company 
Welch would never allow himself to be upstaged.

Herb smokes Jack; Warren lurks in his nightmare

Will Aamir Khan make a difference for Samsung Mobiles? 
The silent ad begins with a shot of the back of Aamir Khan's head.

The sound of silence

The urban home furnishings retail market is estimated to be Rs 9,300 crore and is expected to reach Rs 20,000 crore by 2012.

KIT: The urban home furnishings market in India

    This company was the first to experiment with a female model as a brand ambassador for its campaign in an Islamic nation. &quot;The Jazz Girl&quot; concept which it introduced became something of a trend for other brands to follow. Name the company and the product.

Answers to last week&#39;s quiz #052

    Which Indian was instrumental in acquiring the first cellular licences in the US as well as winning the first cellular licence in Germany for the telecom company he worked in the mid-1980s?.

The Strategist Quiz #053

40 international universities seek land in the Mumbai-Pune-Nashik belt to set up campuses.

Foreign varsities itching for a base in India

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will introduce reservations in faculty positions for the first time since their inception.

IIT faculty too will have quota

Advertising by the education sector on TV has grown by 48 per cent during January-May 2008 as compared to the same period in 2007, according to a new report by Adex India, a division of TAM Media Research.

Education sector ads on TV up 48%

&nbsp;The premier management institute, IIM-Bangalore, is in a bind. It had asked for Rs 114 crore to build infrastructure to accommodate additional students under the OBC quota.

IIM-B asks for Rs 114 cr, gets only Rs 33 cr

As against its demand of Rs 114 crore to build new infrastructure for accommodating additional students joining IIMBangalore under the OBC quota, the Centre has sanctioned the premier B-school only Rs 33 crore.

Funds-thirsty IIMB makes do with less

How about a crash course on avoiding blunders?
If you think it should be a top priority for our politicians, then, you have a reason to smile! For, the new BJP government in Karnataka has decided to pack off all the 31 ministers to the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIMB) campus on Bannerghatta Road to take lessons on good governance.

Now, IIMB lessons for ministers to manage show

As against its demand of Rs 114 crore to build new infrastructure for accommodating additional students joining IIM Bangalore under the OBC quota, the Centre has sanctioned the premier B-school only Rs 33 crore.

IIM Bangalore makes do with less

The year ahead will be a tough one, but the high sales volume of Nano will dramatically change the company's market position.

`Despite the challenges, we`ll have an exciting future`

Bollywood content on illegal websites and video-hosting sites is costing movie companies dearly.

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