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  • Digital Strategy

    October 29, 2018, 10:53 PM IST

    By MICHAEL BENDER ET AL How does your company use advanced technologies to create value? This has become the defining business challenge of our time. If you ignore it or get it wrong, then anything from…

    October 29, 2018, 10:53 PM IST

  • Of Prices and Value

    October 28, 2018, 10:39 PM IST

    By MARIANA MAZZUCATO We are brewing the next crisis. The previous one was caused by private debt, not public debt, and the ratio of private debt to disposable income is back at record levels. We still…

    October 28, 2018, 10:39 PM IST

  • Business of Design

    October 26, 2018, 10:56 PM IST

    By BENEDICT SHEPPARD ET AL Despite the obvious commercial benefits of designing great products and services, consistently realising this goal is notoriously hard — and getting harder. Only the best designs now stand out from the…

    October 26, 2018, 10:56 PM IST

  • Warming Reality

    October 25, 2018, 11:03 PM IST

    By WILLIAM NORDHAUS Global warming is one of the defining issues of our time. It ranks along with violent conflicts and economic depressions as a force that will shape the human and natural landscapes for the…

    October 25, 2018, 11:03 PM IST

  • Capital Issues

    October 23, 2018, 10:38 PM IST

    By ROBERT SHILLER The relation between price-earnings ratios and subsequent returns appears to be moderately strong, though there are questions about its statistical significance, since there are only about 12 non-overlapping 10-year intervals in the 119…

    October 23, 2018, 10:38 PM IST

  • Digital services

    October 22, 2018, 11:17 PM IST

    By Dinesh Venugopal Digital disruption is hitting all industries. Maybe less so in the financial service industry because of regulatory reasons, but it is affecting all industries and…different industries are coping differently.… I’ll give you…

    October 22, 2018, 11:17 PM IST

  • Digital Strategy

    October 21, 2018, 10:55 PM IST

    By Shannon Varney Et  Al Leaders in many organizations lack clarity on what “digital” means for strategy. They underestimate the degree to which digital is disrupting the economic underpinnings of their businesses. They also overlook…

    October 21, 2018, 10:55 PM IST

  • Strategic Insights

    October 19, 2018, 11:01 PM IST

    When the incentives of certain employees are misaligned with the interests of their companies, they tend to look out for themselves in deceptive ways.

    October 19, 2018, 11:01 PM IST

  • Market dynamics

    October 18, 2018, 11:21 PM IST

    by Jeremy Siegel The short term through this quarter is going to be a challenging quarter because of the rising interest rates. We have political uncertainty, we have the mid-term elections coming up. The expectation…

    October 18, 2018, 11:21 PM IST

  • Digital culture

    October 16, 2018, 10:48 PM IST

    by Ramesh Srinivasan Et Al Shortcomings in organisational culture are one of the main barriers to company success in the digital age… In our experience, executives who wait for organisational cultures to change organically will move…

    October 16, 2018, 10:48 PM IST

  • Urban Growth

    October 15, 2018, 10:41 PM IST

    BY VINEET RAJADHYAKSHA ET AL The world faces unprecedented rates of urban expansion. According to the UN, 55% of the global population currently lives in cities. By 2050, that number is expected to reach 68%….

    October 15, 2018, 10:41 PM IST

  • Banking on custom

    October 12, 2018, 10:37 PM IST

    By Nicolas Maechler Et Al Regulation. Fickle customer loyalties. Non-traditional competitors. As if a decade of razor thin margins and reputation issues weren’t enough, the mix of challenges facing global banks makes it easy to…

    October 12, 2018, 10:37 PM IST

  • Designer marketing

    October 11, 2018, 11:23 PM IST

    By Carmine Gallo Long before your favourite movie made it to a theatre near you, it was presented in a pitch meeting. Hollywood screenwriters typically get 3-5 minutes to propose an idea, but it takes…

    October 11, 2018, 11:23 PM IST

  • Political Identity

    October 9, 2018, 10:47 PM IST

    By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA The inner self is the basis of human dignity, but the nature of that dignity is variable and has changed over time. In many early cultures, dignity is attributed only to a few…

    October 9, 2018, 10:47 PM IST

  • Complexity explained

    October 9, 2018, 12:01 AM IST

    BY W Brian Arthur Over the last twenty-five years, a different approach to economics has been slowly birthing, and slowly growing—complexity economics. Complexity economics holds that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium, that computation…

    October 9, 2018, 12:01 AM IST

  • Credible Ratings

    October 7, 2018, 10:52 PM IST

      By JULES KROLL ET AL The blueprint to improve credit rating agencies should map two ways forward. First, it should adopt a professional code of standards that value the needs of its clients. Second, it…

    October 7, 2018, 10:52 PM IST

  • Managing oneself

    October 5, 2018, 10:51 PM IST

    Jeffrey Pfeffer Workplace stress is exacting an ever-higher physical and psychological toll. It adversely affects productivity, drives up voluntary turnover, and costs US employers nearly $200 billion every year in healthcare costs. Many companies are…

    October 5, 2018, 10:51 PM IST

  • Capital issues

    October 4, 2018, 10:48 PM IST

    Vikram Limaye Yes, the asset quality and the capitalisation of banks is a concern, because our economy is largely bank-financed. My primary focus at NSE is the development of [capital] markets. I don’t think we…

    October 4, 2018, 10:48 PM IST

  • Identity politics

    October 3, 2018, 10:38 PM IST

    Francis Fukuyama Twentieth-century politics had been organised along a left-right spectrum defined by economic issues, the left wanting more equality and the right demanding greater freedom. Progressive politics centred around workers, their trade unions, and…

    October 3, 2018, 10:38 PM IST

  • On public projects

    October 2, 2018, 11:13 PM IST

    JOAO GOMES Why are US corporations not investing in the US? Are we investing enough, or are we investing abroad? We started to be intrigued by this a few years ago, when we started looking…

    October 2, 2018, 11:13 PM IST

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