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MBA qualification has emerged as the de-facto choice of students and employers over the years.

KIT: Setting up a world class B-school

    The board of directors of which company once considered the following for the top job: John Sculley, Bill Gates and Scott McNealy? This was after they forced an old-timer CEO of their company, who was rated as one their worst CEOs, to resign in the early 90s.

The Strategist quiz (#216)

    Perfumes, board games, cigarettes, an asteroid, slot machines and a Mediterranean pollution monitoring project are all named after this ancient personality, who by some is considered the world&rsquo;s first celebrity. Name the person.

Answers to last week's quiz (#215)

According to a report titled India Organised Retail Market 2010, published by Knight Frank India, between 2010 and 2012, the organised retail real estate stock will grow from the existing 41 million square feet (sq ft) to 95 million sq ft. The report says, during 2010-12 around 55 million sq ft of retail space will be ready in Mumbai, the national capital region, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune.

Grand designs

Maruti Suzuki tries to smarten up the image of WagonR with its new campaign.

Who's the smartest of 'em all?

The chief strategy officer is becoming an important member of an ad agency, providing a sense of direction.

From backroom to centrestage

The battle for resources is growing fiercer across the globe, driven by rising demand coupled with rapidly dwindling sources. Businesses will need to take a long-term view by securing their future sources of supply and shifting to next-generation fuels and alternative energy sources. Seeking out creative ways to transform waste into profit and satisfying the huge demand for energy-efficient products and services can present profitable business opportunities.

The resource economy

The news that Steven P. Jobs would step down as chief executive of Apple has generated an outpouring of comments from senior managers of agencies about his decades at the helm of the company as well as what might come next there.

On Madison Avenue, talk of Jobs's legacy

Since the day Google Plus was launched, internet analysts have compared it with its more established social networking peer Facebook, and concluded that both have advantages and disadvantages. But it is the user who would be the ultimate judge on where to stay longer.

Users to decide winner of Google-Facebook battle

How does a nation of 7.1 million people, perpetually at war and poor on natural resources produce more start-ups than large, stable countries like China, Korea, India or Japan? Saul Singer, co-author with Dan Senor, of Start-up Nation (Hachette, 2009) discusses how Israel has transformed adversity into an economic miracle. Excerpts from an interview with Kanika Datta.

Q&A: Saul Singer, Start-up Nation

When it comes to laptops, each model packs in diverse sets of functionalities. Cutting across the bewildering number of options in the market, here are some latest value-for-money laptop options that compliment user&rsquo;s computing needs.

Portability and performance

Come join the pure air lover (p.a.l) movement. This is the message from Asia&rsquo;s fifth largest and India&rsquo;s largest wind turbine maker Suzlon through its latest campaign for India. The campaign directs users to an online platform www.pals.in where they can engage in a dialogue on protecting the environment. The broader objective is to take the company&rsquo;s philosophy, wind energy is clean energy, one step ahead.

Suzlon: Winds of change

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Luxor: Making a mark

Accountants use the term &mdash;going concern&mdash;in a narrow sense. They say that an entity is a going concern if it is unlikely to liquidate its operations in the foreseeable future. The assets and liabilities of a going concern are measured using the principles and methods laid down in accounting standards. For example, fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment loss and inventories are measured at the lower of cost and realisable value. If, the entity is not a going concern, in the sense that it will liquidate its operations in the foreseeable future, willingly or otherwise, assets are measured at liquidation value. The dictionary meaning of foreseeable is &lsquo;that you can predict will happen&rsquo;. It is difficult, if not impossible, to predict liquidation of an entity in a distant future.

Going concern: Accounting perspective

The frozen yogurt (fro-yo) fever is heating up as the tart treat tries to lure consumers as a healthier alternative to ice cream.

Turning bacteria into big bucks

Twitter, the popular micro-blogging site, has become an attractive platform for advertisers.

Brands log on to sponsored tweets

At the peak of winter, Jangpura residents who care about good food stop ordering naans from the local Afghan bakery. In the extreme cold, those large, sturdy flatbreads will lose their savour, unlike the butter-spiked naans more commonly available across Delhi, and become less toothsome. They can be reheated, but the correct etiquette for eating Afghan naans in cold weather is to brave the bylanes of Bhogal, stand there at the shop, and scarf down your outsize, tablecloth of a naan with a handful of kababs and rough-chopped onions.

By bread alone

Gargi Gupta finds a treasure trove from the days of the Raj at The Imperial in Delhi.

Remains of empire

Sunita Budhiraja offers a repertory of singers who are keeping Hindustani classical music alive.

After Bhimsen Joshi, who?

Suchitra Mitra, the legendary singer of Tagore songs, died in January. In this homage, Kabir Suman, the pioneer of Bengali modern songs, recalls a little-known aspect of her genius.

A singer's tribute

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