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An ET 500 watts idea to pursue
December 3, 2018, 11:52 PM IST
This newspaper’s list of India’s top companies, ET 500, published on Monday, shows several interesting things. One, despite deregulation from the mid-1980s, six of the top 10 companies by revenue are State-owned giants with public…
December 3, 2018, 11:52 PM IST
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Better customs mean better trade practices
December 3, 2018, 11:42 PM IST
GoI’s plan to recast the customs architecture to boost trade facilitation is sound. It will lower costs, improve business efficiency and shore up revenues for the government. For starters, assessments of import consignments will be…
December 3, 2018, 11:42 PM IST
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Digital Finance
November 30, 2018, 10:52 PM IST
By Ashok Srivastava If you look at small businesses today, many of them need quick access to capital — for payroll, to buy inventory — to make the business run. Looking for loans or other…
November 30, 2018, 10:52 PM IST
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Managing fiscal deficits
November 27, 2018, 11:05 PM IST
By Joseph Stiglitz A wave of fiscal austerity is rushing over Europe and America. The magnitude of budget deficits — like the magnitude of the downturn — has taken many by surprise. But despite protests…
November 27, 2018, 11:05 PM IST
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On learning organisations
November 26, 2018, 11:18 PM IST
By PETER SENGE From a very early age, we are taught to break apart problems, to fragment the world. This apparently makes complex tasks and subjects more manageable, but we pay a hidden, enormous price. We…
November 26, 2018, 11:18 PM IST
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The rise of nations
November 25, 2018, 10:46 PM IST
By MARSHALL BOUTON The real question is whether India can be, in the next 10 or 15 years, the next $10-trillion economy. That would be great. But India has a lot of problems, and they…
November 25, 2018, 10:46 PM IST
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Literary Design
November 23, 2018, 10:47 PM IST
By Kazuo Ishiguro We were 15 by then, already into our last year at Hailsham. We’d been in the pavilion getting ready for a game of rounders. The boys were going through a phase of…
November 23, 2018, 10:47 PM IST
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Capital issues
November 22, 2018, 11:22 PM IST
By Jed Emerson The Chicago School economist, Milton Friedman, wrote a seminal piece entitled, Capitalism and Freedom, in which he describes the connection between democracy and capitalism. His focus on the interplay between the two…
November 22, 2018, 11:22 PM IST
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Workplace safety norms
November 18, 2018, 11:55 PM IST
By Randy Lim Et Al We have long observed that while safety standards in the workplace generally improve across industries over time, individual organisations improve at different speeds. Many companies, moreover, struggle to improve their…
November 18, 2018, 11:55 PM IST
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Aviation’s Flight Path
November 16, 2018, 11:09 PM IST
By MARK VANHOENACKER An airplane navigates through the sky along a route composed of beacons and waypoints. Waypoints are defined by geographic coordinates or their bearing and distance from a beacon, and by a name, which…
November 16, 2018, 11:09 PM IST
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Chinese Chequers
November 13, 2018, 10:55 PM IST
By KAI-FU LEE We currently see narrow artificial intelligence (AI) — not the science fiction, AI human intelligence — but specific AI engines that solve one problem at a time. For instance, [we see] engines that…
November 13, 2018, 10:55 PM IST
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Innovation Quantified
November 12, 2018, 11:05 PM IST
By ALAN GREENSPAN What is distinctive about this book is that we state that creative destruction — and, hence, its most immediate measurement, productivity or output per hour — is the key to determine how standards…
November 12, 2018, 11:05 PM IST
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Banking on Analytics
November 11, 2018, 10:32 PM IST
By Imke Jacob et al We recently conducted an indepth analysis of more than 20 banks in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), assessing their analytics maturity.… For more than half of the banks surveyed,…
November 11, 2018, 10:32 PM IST
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Power Utility Scenario
November 9, 2018, 10:57 PM IST
By DAVID FRANKEL ET AL As the world economy has grown, so has demand for power. Even so, the performance of utilities has been dull. The average cumulative return to shareholders of 50 major publicly listed…
November 9, 2018, 10:57 PM IST
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Managing Data Systems
November 8, 2018, 10:42 PM IST
By MICHAEL BENDER ET AL Every executive understands that data are a source of competitive advantage, but surprisingly few have put in place the business practices to capitalise on the value of data. As companies…
November 8, 2018, 10:42 PM IST
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Issues in Research
November 7, 2018, 11:06 PM IST
By Bernard Ferrari Business leaders in the US and across the world spend countless hours in the boardrooms of major research universities. For many institutions and trustees, those meetings have become more challenging due to some…
November 7, 2018, 11:06 PM IST
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Climate Sense
November 6, 2018, 11:15 PM IST
By WILLIAM NORDHAUS How sharply should countries reduce CO2 and other emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG)? What should be the time profile of emissions reductions? How should the reductions be distributed across industries and countries?…
November 6, 2018, 11:15 PM IST
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Disruption Defined
November 5, 2018, 10:39 PM IST
By CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN ET AL In our experience, too many people who speak of “disruption” have not read a serious book or article on the subject. Too frequently, they use the term loosely to invoke the…
November 5, 2018, 10:39 PM IST
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Making change
November 4, 2018, 11:18 PM IST
By Aaron De Smet The dominant traditional organisation model evolved primarily for stability in a well known environment. It is based on the idea of an organisation as a machine, with a static, siloed, structural…
November 4, 2018, 11:18 PM IST
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Managing Oneself
November 2, 2018, 10:57 PM IST
For starters, identify the cause of your professional discontent. You need to break down the problem and start with the place where it hurts.
November 2, 2018, 10:57 PM IST
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