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UltraTech sees life beyond cement

The cement maker is trying to transform itself into a building solutions provider

The Strategist Quiz (#409)

A day without data

New age talent hunt

As technically qualified people rarely come up on job boards or professional networks, more and more companies are relying on search engines to locate 'unfindable' talent

A trip down memory lane

In its maiden advertising campaign, traditional beverage brand, Paper Boat, has stayed off the beaten track

Connectors crucial for inclusion

Businesses must invest in reskilling employees

Big data will make it even more critical to think creatively about competitive advantage: Arindam Bhattacharya

Interview with Senior partner & managing director, Boston Consulting Group

Answers to the Strategist quiz (#408)

Vikram Bhat: the metalhead who managed one of Bengaluru's best known vegetarian restaurants

The author chronicles the dual life of Vikram Bhat - the frontrunner of Bengaluru's underground music scene who was equally at ease managing an Udupi-style restaurant

Waiting for development in Amethi, Rae Bareli and Varanasi

Have Amethi and Rae Bareli got rough treatment in the last one year? Has Varanasi become cleaner?

Film Review: The Great Gatsby meets the Goodfellas in Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet

The Rs 90-crore period drama falters in its storytelling but gets the styling just right. Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet is a thing of flawed beauty

Book excerpt: War on eBay

This extract from a new book by Porter Erisman, a former Alibaba vice-president, explores Jack Ma's mercurial mind

How iCALL is addressing mental health problems

iCALL, a helpline run by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, is trying to help people - from factory workers to executives - facing mental health problems

Audi TT: Teutonic thrust

Can a car patently meant to be an indulgence also be a practical car for use in the city? The atuhor drives the Audi TT to find the answer

Corbett's own swachh abhiyaan

An intrepid ex-hotelier has been helping villagers at Jim Corbett National Park clean up their act, one bin at a time

Cashing in on ancestral investments

Fundtracers, a Delhi-based initiative, is making a business of recovering forgotten trade assets. The author looks into how it all started

Stay safe on the treadmill

In Goldberg's case, he would have done well to clip the emergency stop mechanism to his shirt or shorts - a move that could have saved him from dying

Chess (#1148)

Come froth, India

Aimed at the youthful urbanite who hankers after taste rather than a high, India's first bottled craft beer is a playful combination of new tastes