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Corporate measures
January 6, 2019, 11:06 PM IST
BY- CHRISTOPHER ITTNER Non-financial measures offer four clear advantages over measurement systems based on financial data. First of these is a closer link to long-term organisational strategies. Financial evaluation systems generally focus on annual or…
January 6, 2019, 11:06 PM IST
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Managing Innovation
January 4, 2019, 11:19 PM IST
By CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN All companies face the continual challenge of defining and developing products that customers will scramble to buy. But despite the best efforts of remarkably talented people, most attempts to create successful new products…
January 4, 2019, 11:19 PM IST
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Real Estate Analytics
January 3, 2019, 10:57 PM IST
By SUDEEP DOSHI ET AL Let’s say you are a developer who wants to identify underused but high-value parcels zoned for development. Data sources on previous transactions exist and are widely established as the traditional cornerstone…
January 3, 2019, 10:57 PM IST
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Design Savvy Does Matter
January 2, 2019, 10:46 PM IST
By BENEDICT SHEPPARD ET AL We tracked the design practices of 300 publicly listed companies over a five-year period in multiple countries and industries. Their senior business and design leaders were interviewed or surveyed. Our team…
January 2, 2019, 10:46 PM IST
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Leading by Design
January 1, 2019, 10:56 PM IST
By GEOFFREY GARRETT Strong leaders “stick to their guns” — maintain their core beliefs, commitments and strategies — in the face of daunting odds, right? Sticking to your guns is valued because it signals strength, courage…
January 1, 2019, 10:56 PM IST
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Going Back to Nature
December 31, 2018, 10:27 PM IST
By Henry David Thoreau Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so…
December 31, 2018, 10:27 PM IST
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Reading Redefined
December 28, 2018, 11:20 PM IST
By PETER DOUGHERTY The internet, having upset the culture and economics of books aplenty, has, in a stroke of Schumpeterian ‘creative destruction’, spawned a new and multidimensional market for them. This new market includes ebooks, books…
December 28, 2018, 11:20 PM IST
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Striving for Freedom
December 25, 2018, 10:30 PM IST
By NELSON MANDELA On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth, that was the name we would answer to in school. This…
December 25, 2018, 10:30 PM IST
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Of Futures and Options
December 24, 2018, 10:58 PM IST
By JOHN AUTHERS If currencies are buoyed or depressed by speculation, they skew the terms of global trade. Governments’ control over their own economies is compromised if exchange rates render their goods too cheap or too…
December 24, 2018, 10:58 PM IST
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Failing IPO market calls for corrective
December 23, 2018, 10:50 PM IST
The chief of equity market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is concerned that the volume and value of new stock offerings have dropped off a cliff between 2017 and late-2018. In that…
December 23, 2018, 10:50 PM IST
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Digital-Age Economics
December 21, 2018, 11:13 PM IST
By JACQUES BUGHIN ET AL One of the first concepts we learnt in microeconomics was economic rent — profit earned in excess of a company’s cost of capital. Digital is confounding the best-laid plans to capture…
December 21, 2018, 11:13 PM IST
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On Digital Insurance
December 20, 2018, 10:39 PM IST
By SHIRISH SHARMA ET AL An ongoing drive toward digitisation has put the insurance industry on the verge of a paradigm shift. The pace of change has accelerated thanks to tremendous increases in the volume of…
December 20, 2018, 10:39 PM IST
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Climate Economics
December 18, 2018, 11:13 PM IST
by William Nordhaus The economics of climate changeis straightforward. When we burn fossil fuels, we inadvertently emit CO2 into the atmosphere, and this leads to many potentially harmful impacts. Such a process is an ‘externality’,…
December 18, 2018, 11:13 PM IST
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Winnning strategy
December 17, 2018, 11:18 PM IST
By: Susan Peppercorn People are quick to blame themselves for failure, and companies hedge against it even if they pay lip service to the noble concept of trial and error.… Behind many fears is worry…
December 17, 2018, 11:18 PM IST
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Knowledge overload
December 16, 2018, 11:21 PM IST
By JASON FARMAN Starting in the late 1890s, several cities in the United States installed these tubes underground that would shoot up to 20,000 letters in a minute between post office stations. It ran all…
December 16, 2018, 11:21 PM IST
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Capital Issues
December 14, 2018, 11:32 PM IST
By MARTIN WOLF The huge deficits that the US willingly incurred gave the world breathing space. But that could not last forever. Adjustment in the global balance of payments is now taking place. If it is…
December 14, 2018, 11:32 PM IST
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Very much at home abroad
December 13, 2018, 11:15 PM IST
Signals from Washington these days suggest that the current administration views immigrants as a burden to the country… One commentator recommends— maybe not entirely facetiously—that it might be time to revise the slogan on the…
December 13, 2018, 11:15 PM IST
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Golden age of growth
December 9, 2018, 11:13 PM IST
The flood of inventions that followed the Civil War utterly transformed life, transferring human attention and energy from the mundane to soaring skyscrapers and airplanes. What makes the period 1870-1970 so special is that these…
December 9, 2018, 11:13 PM IST
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On Pattern Recognition
December 7, 2018, 11:27 PM IST
By MICHAEL CHUI ET AL Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to help tackle some of the world’s most challenging social problems.… We identified 18 AI capabilities that could be used to benefit society. Fourteen of…
December 7, 2018, 11:27 PM IST
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On Social Mobility
December 6, 2018, 11:37 PM IST
By RAVI KANBUR ET AL Why do many more rural migrants end up in secondary towns, despite larger welfare gains among those who end up in the city? Migrant life histories and the notions of evolving…
December 6, 2018, 11:37 PM IST
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