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Organised retail  just 12% of our top line: Neeraj Jain

The manufacturer of some of the most iconic brands is now doing a course correction

Volkswagen in pause mode

For phone fanatics, this year's Union Budget was bad news, thanks to the tax increase on mobile phones that cost more than Rs 2,000. It was a double whammy for mobile addicts  they were about to experience withdrawal symptoms at the conclusion of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. But lets get our spirits high by looking back on what were the best to happen at this year's event.Sony Xperia Tablet ZIf the Sony Xperia Z handset was the showstopper at CES this year, its elder sibling laid claim to the spot in Barcelona, not least because it was dunked in a tub of water at the Sony stall. The 6.9-mm thin and and light tablet features a 10.1-inch HD display, a 8.1 MP rear and 2MP rear snappers and is powered by a 1.5Ghz quad-core Snapdragon processor. The amazingly tough gadget interacts with other Android devices via NFC and is powered by a 6,000mAh battery.YotaPhoneDid you pray a phone which would also double up as an excellent eBook reader, while not compromising on battery li

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Paid social media advertising is increasingly being viewed as an integrated tactic

Social media advertsing

When this person was the warden of the royal mint in the late 1690s one in four coins was a fake since their bits were being clipped of gold coins. In order to curb this, he designed and installed new minting machines that were 8 times faster and produced coins that were hard to forge or clip. Name this person.

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PLAYING TO WIN: HOW STRATEGY REALLY WORKS by AG Lafley, Roger L MartinPublished by Harvard BusinessPrice Rs 995Strategy is hard because it forces people and organisations to make specific choices about their future something that doesnt happen in most companies.THE $ 10 TRILLION PRIZE by Michael J. Silverstein, Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao, David MichaelPublished by Harvard BusinessPrice Rs 995Do you know enough about the new consumers of China & India to convert them into customers?INDIANOMIX: MAKING SENSE OF MODERN INDIA by Vivek Dehejia, Rupa SubramanyaPublished by Random House IndiaPrice Rs 399Economists VivekDehejia and Rupa Subramanya unearth reasons why we are like this onlyJUGAAD INNOVATION: THINK FRUGAL, BE FLEXIBLE, GENERATE BREAKTHROUGH GROWTH by Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu, Simone AhujaPublished by Random HousePrice Rs 499The West must look to places like India, Brazil, and China for a new approach to frugal and flexible innovation.THE I OF LEADERSHIP: STRATEGIES FOR SEEIN

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We made KBC 4 sound fresh and interesting to the youth

The Indian Premier League started its career with a bang six seasons ago.

Has IPL let the Indian advertiser down?

Interview with Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth

The lack of infrastructure  may lead to innovation: Vijay Govindarajan

Selecting a homogeneous team may seem like the best thing to do to avoid conflict at workplace. But diversity can improve creative idea generation and provide a buffer when groups grow too largeManagers have a tendency to make the team too similar in personality and in talent. This is in part because leaders try to avoid conflict by selecting people who like each other. However, it is far more important to do good work than to avoid conflict. So, put aside political correctness and go for results! A study of one R&D company showed just how important heterogeneity is: teams that included both creative and conformist members were more likely to have a radical innovation, as compared to teams that included attentive-to-detail members, which hindered innovation. Creative members enhance conflict and hinder adherence to rules; conformists reduce conflict.The team should be a motley crew when it comes to backgrounds, training, and thinking styles. In one study, for example, three types o

Building the right team

Silos in network-run agencies can come in the way of creating effective communication in the age of short deadlines. Heres how advertisers are taking control of the creative process

No more Chinese whispers

After taking ayurvedic products worldwide commercially, the Delhi-based Burman family is set to be among the first to open a restaurant chain that would serve Indian cuisine in globally.

Dabur's Burmans to offer Indian cuisine globally

Splurge on the exclusive  elegant limited-edition watches, diamond-studded phones and handbagsDress to the ninesBurberry, Canali, Brioni, Lanvin, Tom Ford and Ermenegildo Zegna are classic options for men and women. Add the world's most expensive suit (Â£80,000) from Dormeuil to your wardrobe. Team the look with pocket scarves from Hugo Boss and Zegna (Rs 15,000 onwards).The HermÃ¨s "Echec au Roi" cashmere and silk shawl (Rs 73,000) is a must-have for women. Shoes from Berluti, New & Lingwood, (for men); Ferragamo, Manolo Blahnik and Jimmy Choo (for women)Complete the look with ...The HermÃ¨s "Picotin Lock" bag in crocodile griot (Rs 9,40,000) and the dainty HermÃ¨s twisted bracelet in silver. Men should opt for watches likeFranck Muller Crazy Hours (over $30,000), Audemars Pigeut Royal Oak Offshore Grande Complication (price on request), and pens like Montblanc's Mystery Masterpiece (Rs 3 crore) and Montegrappa's "Chaos" collection (Rs 3 lakh-Rs 3 crore)IT toolsThe iPhone 4S Elite

Billionaire vanities

Literature on big business in India is still a relatively undeveloped industry

Low on book value

Running a multi-billion dollar business is no mean task. It calls for immense energy. Veenu Sandhu lists five super-toned billionaires who know that to stay wealthy, they need to be both wise and healthySome years before he died, Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of Reliance Industries, told his younger son, Anil:  "Look Son, you can buy any luxury you want in life  from clothes to food, from a home to a holiday  but you can never buy health. Do whatever it takes to make yourself feel good." The younger Ambani was touching 40 then. He weighed an uncomfortable 105 kg and could barely walk a kilometre in an hour, let alone run. Like his father, his fitness, or rather lack of it, also had his shareholders worried.There was only one option before Ambani: to cut into his busy schedule and take time out to shape up. The inspiration to run, Ambani revealed in UpperCrust, came from another extremely busy man  the then American president, George Bush, who, despite being in his mid-50s, would run at

Fit to lead

Old Hindi cinema had an impressive line-up of billionaires (but let's adjust for inflation and allow them to be mere crorepatis). For the purposes of a short column, one may divide them into two categories: the bad guys and the good guys. The former were Bond-style villains, living in lavish dens with spiky walls, quicksand pits, and floors that would part to reveal a shark tank into which an inefficient minion or the hero's beleaguered father could be dipped. The other types of crorepatis were decent  or relatively decent  people. They wore their wealth lightly, called their grown-up daughters "baby" and were good to the unprivileged in the patronising way that people who have never known true hardship can afford to be. In Yash Chopra's Waqt, a poor driver walks into a high-society party to ask his employer if he can use the car to take his mother to the hospital. The boss looks solicitous, says "haan haan, bilkul" and gets back to his socialising. It's done matter-of-factly, despite

Crorepatis, kal aur aaj

Swanky yachts, nifty choppers, fancifully-customised aircraft and stud farms are just a few of the indulgences of our billionaires

Playthings of the super rich

Some homes keep their secrets well. In Mumbai, Mukesh Ambani's Antilla, which has hosted its big-ticket parties, has floored visitors to such an extent that few recall seeing any art there. On prodding, they might recall "a kind of bird"  possibly a massive Garuda by artist Satish Gupta  at the entrance, part of a series of artworks commissioned especially for the skyscraper, though it is the junior Ambanis who take art collecting more seriously, with both office and their residence brimming with masters and contemporaries from F N Souza to Chintan Upadhyay, Jogen Chowdhury to Sujata Kejriwal. Unsurprisingly, really, with Tina Ambani supporting the Harmony show, and spouse Anil Ambani providing discreet inputs. In New Delhi, it is Sunil Mittal's home that has remained unreported for its art collection, with the Mittals apparently inclined to support emerging artists over established masters.But it is the masters that seem to excite most collectors, with M F Husain right on top as the "

Art in their abode

From traditional bungalows to ultra-modern skyscrapers, the homes of India's super rich boast of opulence, class and style

Billionaire boulevard

It's an elite but closed group. Bhupesh Bhandari analyses the list of India's richest people

Kuber's hundred

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