MANAGERS WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP - 2011 OFFICIAL GUIDE
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THE BIG SHORT
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The health insurance industry, which had underwritten premium of over Rs 8,000 crore in 2009-10, is expected to expand manifold with an annual growth rate of 30 per cent for the next five years.

KIT:  Health insurance

    Name this supply chain game played by up to four people with an objective to minimise the total cost for everyone in the supply chain by maintaining low stocks but managing to deliver all orders. It is named after a beverage.

The Strategist Quiz (#191)

    Name the Indian businessman and nationalist who was the first to enunciate the &ldquo;drain theory&rdquo; in the 1860s. He argued that the basic cause of India&rsquo;s poverty was drain of wealth &mdash; excess exports over imports.

Answers to last week's quiz (#190)

Karur Vysya Bank (KVB) plans to increase the ceiling of holding by&nbsp;foreign instutional investors (FIIs), non resident Indians (NRIs) and&nbsp;foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the equity share capital of the&nbsp;bank to 35 per cent from the current 24 per cent. The move comes in the wake of a recent approval the bank got from Foreign Investment Promotion Board to issue shares worth Rs 107.50 crore to foreign investors.

KVB to raise foreign holding cap to 35 pc

It was not the punters alone who were smiling when Netherland&rsquo;s Ryan ten Doeschate scored a century against England in the Cricket World Cup. Several people in a small town of Gujarat were also cheering the Dutch team.

Utterly butterly dutch

The biggest cricketing event on the planet has kicked off amidst great expectations, anticipations, excitement and frenzy. As the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 proceeds into its third week, let&rsquo;s take a look at the fortnightly action. While most of the things have gone according to the script, the World Cup has sprung up a few surprises of its own. Amongst the biggest ones is the astonishing defeat handed over to England by their Irish neighbors in a record run chase.

Of cricket and advertising

Our brand positioning is mid-market. We have the premiumness of the brand because of our name and what we do. But for the last couple of years, we have been sourcing a lot of products out of India and South Asia. This means selling prices would come down and increase retail within the market.

Q&A: Martin Jones, CEO, Marks & Spencer Reliance India

It&rsquo;s the third largest player in the pain balm segment. But the 117-year-old Chennai based Amrutanjan Health Care Ltd (AHCL) now wants to go off the beaten track by becoming a health and wellness company.

Amrutanjan also makes pain balm

Noida is home to the biggest real estate phenomenon India is witnessing.

Boom town

Aryaman Dalmia was so inspired by the gurus of investment that he wrote a book.

The Buffett bug can bite early

Priyanka Joshi talks to Radha Kapoor who chose to launch India&rsquo;s first premium drycleaner service, Pressto, rather than follow in father Rana Kapoor&rsquo;s banking footsteps.

Hey Pressto!

How do I say I&rsquo;m sorry? Let me count the ways... Clearly Sushma Swaraj didn&rsquo;t think Manmohan Singh&rsquo;s assurance to the Lok Sabha this Monday that the government &ldquo;will take into consideration the guidelines given by the Supreme Court on the appointment of a new CVC&rdquo; was enough by way of an apology.

A is for apology

Nabobs were East India Company officers who carried out private trades in India and amassed huge wealth for themselves. Their lifestyle was the subject of ridicule in popular British media of the time. They were unscrupulous and could do anything for a small profit. One such man was Frederick Wilson. He had secured the right to cut deodar and pine trees from Sudarshan Shah, the King of Tehri Garhwal. With the royal firman under his arm, Wilson denuded hill after hill in Garhwal. The deforestation he caused took well over 100 years to recover from. Of course, at a very young age he had become the richest man in North India.

Raja and nabob

Home bars are the in thing now. Gargi Gupta talks to owners and designers to find out what to look for when buying one.

Raise the bar

Sanskar Lakshmi on Zee TV; Reena, my wife, produces the show.

Sharp dealer: Ashok Wadhwa, Group CEO, Ambit

Travelling from South to North Goa, as the villages and the beaches disappear under an encrustation of shops and cheap bars, the ghost of Frank Simoes rides with us. The advertising legend chronicled Goa with a clear if cynical eye, browsing in village bars like &ldquo;an entomologist in a rainforest&rdquo; as he noted the rapacity of the new wave of tourism.

The legend of Baumra Jap

J Jagannath on four recent American films on the recession and why there aren&rsquo;t more of them.

The crash and after

Aabhas Sharma examines why Madhuri Dixit has producers and marketers queueing up,long after quitting the industry.

She's still got it

On the face of it, there isn&rsquo;t much to link Tom Hooper&rsquo;s The King&rsquo;s Speech and Darren Aronofsky&rsquo;s Black Swan. The former is a solidly written and acted historical, made in the efficient but unimaginative, workmanlike style that characterises many British period films. The latter is a visually showy, full-blooded melodrama that is almost too imaginative for its own good, careening from psychological thriller to B-movie horror to profound commentary on artistic turmoil. But the two movies do have something in common: both are about people suffering from serious performance anxiety as they prepare to don a role. Colin Firth and Natalie Portman may have been Oscar royalty for a night, but they won the best actor and best actress statuettes for playing a very reluctant (real-life) king and a very paranoid (Swan) queen, respectively.

Performance anxiety scores

If the more familiar Southeast Asian martial art forms such as karate, taekwondo and jujitsu, or Israeli&rsquo;s krav maga no longer appeal to you, then flex your muscles with these other martial arts.

Fighting fit

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