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Managing Carve-Outs
February 12, 2019, 10:56 PM IST
By ANTHONY LUU You’ve found the perfect acquisition target — a complementary business with positive cash flow, a strong brand and access to emerging markets that would take you years to develop on your own….
February 12, 2019, 10:56 PM IST
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Ground Reality
February 10, 2019, 11:08 PM IST
By Pankaj Mishra Savage violence has erupted in recent years across a broad swathe of territory: wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, suicide bombings in Belgium, Xinjiang, Nigeria and Turkey, insurgencies from Yemen to…
February 10, 2019, 11:08 PM IST
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Managing mindfully
February 8, 2019, 10:52 PM IST
By Jeffrey Schwartz One really important point about how the brain works that has tremendous relevance to day-today business operations is what we commonly call the habit centre. That part of the brain is the…
February 8, 2019, 10:52 PM IST
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Experimental Economics
February 7, 2019, 10:58 PM IST
By ANNA GÜNTNER ET AL Subtle interventions to help people make better decisions are hardly new. Since the 1950s, behavioural scientists, using a mix of economics and psychology, have studied human irrationality and devised ways…
February 7, 2019, 10:58 PM IST
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Why Public Trust Matters
January 29, 2019, 11:30 PM IST
By TARUN KHANNA In 2008, anxious parents in Gansu province, deep in the Chinese mainland, began visiting hospitals with their ailing infants. Tests found that several domestic brands of dairybased infant formula powders they were…
January 29, 2019, 11:30 PM IST
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How forward-looking museums are leveraging and transforming with AR!
January 29, 2019, 11:27 AM IST
Nilanjana Saxena Museums play an important role in society by collecting, preserving, researching and presenting materials and objects of historical and cultural significance. Such a responsibility requires museums to keep in step with the times,…
January 29, 2019, 11:27 AM IST
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Why 60 is the New 40
January 27, 2019, 10:58 PM IST
By CHIP CONLEY A number of studies have shown very little correlation between age and wisdom-…What is correlated is that people actually make sense of their life and their mistakes and their experiences along the way….
January 27, 2019, 10:58 PM IST
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Fiscal policy design issues
January 25, 2019, 10:58 PM IST
by Sarah Love ‘Fiscal policy’ is the term used to describe all of the government’s decisions regarding taxation and spending. It covers a huge array of taxes, benefits and public services, and is a powerful tool…
January 25, 2019, 10:58 PM IST
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Work Smart
January 22, 2019, 11:03 PM IST
By JASON FRIED Our culture celebrates the idea of the workaholic. We hear about people burning the midnight oil. They pull all-nighters and sleep at the office. It’s considered a badge of honour to kill yourself…
January 22, 2019, 11:03 PM IST
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Economic Gut Feeling
January 21, 2019, 11:03 PM IST
By TIM KOLLER The performance of equity markets shows that they have not been a good predictor of past recessions.… Our analysis suggests that the equity markets give too much weight to current economic activity rather…
January 21, 2019, 11:03 PM IST
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Political culture
January 20, 2019, 10:43 PM IST
BY-PANKAJ MISHRA In the 1890s, as the first phase of economic globalisation accelerated, xenophobic politicians in France demanded protectionism while targeting foreign workers — angry Frenchmen massacred dozens of Italian immigrant labourers in 1893. White…
January 20, 2019, 10:43 PM IST
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Designing Potential
January 18, 2019, 11:14 PM IST
By BENEDICT SHEPPARD ET AL The potential for design-driven growth is enormous in both product-and service-based sectors. …Customers can feed opinions back to companies (and to each other) in real time, allowing design to be measured…
January 18, 2019, 11:14 PM IST
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Industrial Innovation
January 17, 2019, 10:47 PM IST
By RICHARD D’AVENI 3D printing is essentially a method from which powder is converted into a kind of gooey substance that’s then put down by layers. In the second-biggest type of 3D printing, it’s a resin….
January 17, 2019, 10:47 PM IST
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On Big Data Analytics
January 15, 2019, 11:22 PM IST
By H JAMES WILSON ET AL Machine learning and data analytics are powering a wave of ground-breaking technologies. Companies considering how to invest in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities should first understand that over the coming five…
January 15, 2019, 11:22 PM IST
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Digital finance
January 14, 2019, 10:41 PM IST
By Steve Hollingworth There are a lot of factors behind the shift from microfinance to financial inclusion. One of the key factors is what’s happening with data in general and our ability through digital data…
January 14, 2019, 10:41 PM IST
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Managing innovation
January 13, 2019, 10:47 PM IST
BY PHILIP KUSHMARO While many companies want to breed innovation in-house, there isn’t always enough time, money or resources to do so. Instead of accepting the status quo and waiting for innovation to happen organically,…
January 13, 2019, 10:47 PM IST
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Networking Effectively
January 11, 2019, 11:21 PM IST
By Karen Wickre I am an introvert in that, at the end of a busy day, I need to go home and regroup and have quiet time. At the other end of the spectrum, an…
January 11, 2019, 11:21 PM IST
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Incomes Policy
January 10, 2019, 11:17 PM IST
By JOHN STUART MILL The simplest expedient which can be imagined for keeping the wages of labour up to the desirable point, would be to fix them by law: and this is virtually the object aimed…
January 10, 2019, 11:17 PM IST
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Innovation Potential
January 9, 2019, 11:13 PM IST
By Kausik Rajgopal Et Al Blockchain, over recent years, has been extolled as a revolution in business technology. In the nine years since its launch, companies, regulators and financial technologists have spent countless hours exploring…
January 9, 2019, 11:13 PM IST
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Financial Transition
January 7, 2019, 10:51 PM IST
By Adam Tooze Tuesday, September 16, 2008, was the “day after Lehman”. It was the day global money markets seized up. At the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC, September 16 began with urgent plans…
January 7, 2019, 10:51 PM IST
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