Breakout Nations: In Pursuit Of The Next Economic Miracle by Ruchir Sharma
Published by Penguin
Price Rs 599
ISBN 9781846145568.
Poor Little Rich Slum by Rashmi Bansal, Deepak Gandhi, Dee Gandhi
Published by Westland
Price Rs 250
ISBN 9789381626184.
Jugaad Innovation by Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu, Simone Ahuja
Published by Random House
Price Rs 499
ISBN 9788184002058.
The New Age Enterepreneurs by Various
Published by Random House
Price Rs 199
ISBN 9788184001761.
What Got You Here Won&rsquo;T Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Published by Viva
Price Rs 325
ISBN 9781846681370.
Fish! by Stephen Lundin
Published by Hodder &amp; Stoughton
Price Rs 150
ISBN 9780340819807.
Facebook Marketing 2/E by Levy
Published by Pearson Education
Price Rs 475
ISBN 9788131758175.
Winning Way: Learnings From Sport Managers by Harsha Bhogle
Published by Westland
Price Rs 200
ISBN 9789380658322.
Marketing Warfare by Al Ries, Jack Trout
Published by Tata Mcgraw Hill
Price

The top 10 business bestsellers

Business Standard

Despite having the largest kindergarten to grade 12 (K-12) population globally, India has a low enrolment rate in schools, especially at the senior secondary level. The enrolment percentage has fallen from 113 per cent at primary to 81 per cent at middle school and then to 31 per cent at secondary and higher secondary levels. Low enrolment and high drop-out rates are caused by low availability of schools in rural areas, low awareness, and prevalence of child labour amongst lower income strata.

KIT: School education in India

    When Amul was building a modern dairy plant to process liquid milk UNICEF and other diary experts declared it impossible to process liquid milk into powder and other solid products. Undeterred, Dr Kurien&rsquo;s team went ahead and achieved one of the firsts in the world.

Answers to last week's The Strategist Quiz (#259)

You have possibly seen and even tasted this triangular chocolate at some point when you walked into a high-end traditional store, supermarket or hypermarket. Toblerone, which uptil now was imported and sold by two local distributors Universal and Barakat, has finally been integrated with the merged Cadbury-Kraft entity in India - the third Kraft brand after Oreo and Tang to go down that road. Cadbury-Kraft will now officially market and distribute Toblerone in the country. But it will not locally manufacture Toblerone like it does Oreo and Tang since the unique selling proposition of the mountain-shaped chocolate has been its production at one factory in Berne, Switzerland.

Kraft's premium chocolate bet

Aditya Birla brand, Kara Skin Wipes is back with its television campaign, second year in a row. The theme, the face (Anushka Sharma), the message, it all stays constant. And yet for a keen observer there are subtle signs of the brand, launched five years back, growing up.

Kara hopes to hit pay dirt with 'dirty habits portfolio'

The idea of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to tweak the joint entrance examination (JEE) to discourage the coaching culture has done exactly the opposite so far.

IIT-JEE format a boon for coaching schools

Two decades ago, few corporations extended employee benefits such as paternity leave, or maternity leave for female employees who adopted children. Today, such perks are much more prevalent in the Indian corporate world, at least among the larger corporations. Many of these practices followed the proliferation of new multinationals, especially in the IT and IT-enabled services businesses where the competition for talent was fierce.

Kanika Datta: Perks of social change

Recruiting firm Ma Foi Strategic Consultants is planning to establish business schools in Tamil Nadu. The Ma Foi Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (MIME) will commence operations from June 2013 and offer both one-year and two-year programmes in management, with a focus on entrepreneurship.

Recruiting firm Ma Foi plans to roll out B-schools in 2013

Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) has announced its next short-duration course on integrated urban disaster risk reduction (IUDRR), that focuses on proactive mitigation and preparedness. The course will be held in New Delhi from July 17-21, 2012 at the IIHS office. The course will benefit professionals in the area of building science, economics, sociology, urban planning, disaster recovery, business continuity, etc by helping them understand a new frame to deal with disaster risk reduction.

Short course on disaster risk reduction

Educational Testing Service, which administers the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), is providing test takers with the option of ScoreSelect, which will allow GRE test takers to decide which test scores to send to the institutions they choose, so that they can send the scores they feel reflect their personal best. Building on the momentum of the 2011 launch of the GRE revised General Test, the ScoreSelect option focuses on helping test takers succeed on the road to an advanced degree because they can approach the test day with more confidence. The new ScoreSelect option will be available for both the GRE revised General Test and GRE Subject Tests, and can be used by anyone with reportable scores from the last five years.

Now, you can send your best GRE score

ICICI Bank and ITM University, Chhattisgarh, have launched a specialised certificate course in Retail Banking Sales Management to meet the growing demand of pre-skilled human capital by the banking sector. The course, under the banner of the ICICI Bank Sales Academy in collaboration with ITM University, will be conducted on a fully-residential basis at the university campus in Raipur. The course will be of three months&rsquo; duration, comprising one month of instructor-led classroom activity at the university campus at Raipur, and two months of internship at branches of ICICI Bank. On successful completion of the campus leg of the course, participants would be absorbed as sales trainees on the rolls of the Bank.

Retail Banking Sales Management certificate

It is a prudent move for a&nbsp;B-school to adopt IPRS&nbsp;to validate its placement data. This validation provides accuracy of the placement reporting and imparts credibility to the B-school. This transparency measure exhibits the self-assurance and poise of the B-school, and instill trust in students.

Student's corner

It had lost the top position to BMW in the luxury car segment three years ago. But 2012 has brought in even worse news: Mercedes, the Stuttgart-headquartered world's oldest car maker, has slipped to the third position after Audi, owned by Volkswagen. While the gap between the two till April this year was marginal, it widened substantially in May, strengthening Audi&rsquo;s position in the second slot.

Speed bumps for Mercedes

MADISON AVENUE wants to get its act together this summer and take it on the road.

Marketing, now on the road 

Facebook&rsquo;s decision to appoint Sheryl Sandberg to its all-male board of directors should have been a routine announcement. But it wasn&rsquo;t. For it came only after the social media giant was criticised by all and sundry for its &ldquo;glaring blemish&rdquo; of not having a woman on its board for so long.

Shyamal Majumdar: 'Golden skirts' quota?

The big media story of last month was the nominations for the Indian presidency. The tale saw a lot of twists and turns, with coalition partners becoming opponents and antagonists becoming bedfellows. Clearly, Chanakya neeti was at work behind the scenes. This is not surprising since we do not live in either a monopolistic or an oligopolistic political market; ours is a multi-brand, competitive one.

Madhukar Sabnavis: The ancient art of persuasion

US-based General Motors (GM), may have tipped Japanese auto major Toyota to become the largest-selling car maker globally last year, but it has been finding the going tough in India.

GM sets 'Sail' to beat India blues

The UK-based department store chain Debenhams is making a second attempt for a better fit in India. Its first foray in 2007-08 flopped as the chain wanted to be everything to everybody &ndash; a positioning that just didn&rsquo;t work in a crowded marketplace.

'She-change' for Debenhams

Poor Little Rich Slum by Rashmi Bansal, Deepak Gandhi, Dee Gandhi
Published by Westland
Price Rs 250
ISBN 9789381626184.
Jugaad Innovation by Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu, Simone Ahuja
Published by Random House
Price Rs 499
ISBN 9788184002058.
The New Age Entrepreneurs by Sukumar Ranganathan
Published by Random House
Price Rs 199
ISBN 9788184001761.
The Game Changers: 20 Extraordinary Success Stories Of Entrepreneurs From Iit Kharagpur by Yuvnesh Modi, Rahul Kumar, Alok Kothari
Published by Random House
Price Rs 150
ISBN 9788184002737.
Kissing Ass by Clyde D&rsquo;Souza
Published by Random House
Price Rs 150
ISBN 9788184002270
Corporate Chanakya by Radhakrishnan Pillai
Published by Jaico Publishing House
Price Rs 295
ISBN 9788184951332.
Management Tips: From The Harvard Business Review by Harvard Business Review
Published by Hardvard Business
Price Rs 395
ISBN 9781422158784.
Winning Way: Learnings From Sport Managers by Harsha Bhogle
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Indian food and FMCG packing market has witnessed a growth of 15-20 per cent year on year, this is preliminary due to the factors like increasing nuclear family system, increasing youth population and spent, health awareness among society, product diversification and new product development and acceptance. The sector also aids in reducing waste, fetching better returns to farmers and also improves the end product delivery to the consumer.

KIT: Food packaging in India

Conglomerates have been an enigma for the better part of their half a century of existence. It is challenging to build a successful conglomerate and exceptionally difficult to run one. In recent times of financial crisis, conglomerates world over once again find themselves under intense scrutiny. Popular opinion tends to simplify the issue around conglomerates by attributing a &lsquo;conglomerate discount&rsquo; and prophesying their universal dismantling.

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