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  • Managing oneself

    March 22, 2018, 11:15 PM IST

    By Maura Thomas Your attention determines the experiences you have, and the experiences you have determinethe life you live. Or, said another way: you must control your attention to control your life. To be consistently…

    March 22, 2018, 11:15 PM IST

  • Trading scenario

    March 20, 2018, 11:16 PM IST

    By Erik Lundh Recently, the popular narrative surrounding international trade has involved nationalism, protectionism and trade wars. It may, therefore, come as a surprise to hear that global trade has been experiencing something of a…

    March 20, 2018, 11:16 PM IST

  • National happiness

    March 19, 2018, 11:39 PM IST

    The policies that set into motionan upward spiral in well-being are making sure kids have enough education so they can read, and educating women, especially mothers. [Those] mothers have fewer children who are better educated,…

    March 19, 2018, 11:39 PM IST

  • Future Tense

    March 16, 2018, 11:14 PM IST

    By JAANA REMES ET AL Broad-based income growth has diverged from productivity growth, because declining labour share of income and rising inequality are eroding median wage growth, and the rapidly rising costs of housing and…

    March 16, 2018, 11:14 PM IST

  • Managing strategy

    March 9, 2018, 11:22 PM IST

    We need to address the real problem: the “social side of strategy”, arising from corporate politics, individual incentives and human biases. How? With evidence. We examined publicly available information on dozens of variables for thousands…

    March 9, 2018, 11:22 PM IST

  • Managing Defaults

    March 5, 2018, 11:41 PM IST

    Lending institutions know that risk-based segmentation of their outstanding loans does not in itself help get their money back.

    March 5, 2018, 11:41 PM IST

  • On design thinking

    March 2, 2018, 11:36 PM IST

    By Maya Bernstein By applying design thinking, a concept popularised by IDEO founder David Kelley and Stanford’s design school, which was first applied to the design of physical objects, then other products, such as technological…

    March 2, 2018, 11:36 PM IST

  • On dynamics of growth

    March 1, 2018, 10:53 PM IST

    By Jaana Remes Et Al To incentivise broad-based change, companies need competitive pressure to perform better, a business environment and institutions that enable change and creative destruction, and access to infrastructure and talent. Demand may…

    March 1, 2018, 10:53 PM IST

  • On growth dynamics

    February 23, 2018, 10:45 PM IST

    By Jaana Remes Et Al Nine years into recovery from the Great Recession, labour-productivity-growth rates remain near historic lows across many advanced economies. Productivity growth is crucial to increase wages and living standards, and helps…

    February 23, 2018, 10:45 PM IST

  • Evolutionary markets

    February 22, 2018, 11:15 PM IST

    By Andrew Lo The connections between evolution and economics are not new. Economics may have even inspired evolutionary theory. The British economist Thomas Malthus deeply influenced both Charles Darwin and Darwin’s close competitor, Alfred Russel…

    February 22, 2018, 11:15 PM IST

  • Managing Strategy

    February 19, 2018, 10:38 PM IST

    By Wouter Aghina Et Al Why do established companies struggle to become more agile? No small part of the difficulty comes from a false trade-off: the assumption by executives that they must choose between much-needed…

    February 19, 2018, 10:38 PM IST

  • The way ahead for fish farming

    February 16, 2018, 11:43 PM IST

    We have 9,000 sq km of waterlogged, unproductive land that could be converted into profitable fish farms.

    February 16, 2018, 11:43 PM IST

  • Managing strategy

    February 14, 2018, 10:39 PM IST

    By Chris Bradley Et Al Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman described in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow the “inside view” that often emerges when we focus only on the case at hand. This view leads people…

    February 14, 2018, 10:39 PM IST

  • Managing oneself

    February 13, 2018, 11:32 PM IST

    The more that we pay attention to that, the more that we are exercising our brain and changing the structure and the functioning of it.

    February 13, 2018, 11:32 PM IST

  • India and the Maldives Conundrum

    February 9, 2018, 10:08 PM IST

    By Sanjay Pulipaka  The Maldives is in the midst of a political crisis. Last week, the Supreme Court of Maldives called for the release of nine opposition leaders and the reinstatement of 12 legislators. President Abdulla Yameen responded by arresting…

    February 9, 2018, 10:08 PM IST

  • Local Plan, Global Scale

    February 8, 2018, 11:22 PM IST

    Gurcharan Das There was a time when I used to believe with Diogenes the Cynic that “I am a citizen of the world,” and I used to strut about feeling that a “blade of grass…

    February 8, 2018, 11:22 PM IST

  • Managing profitability

    February 2, 2018, 10:42 PM IST

    By Tim Koller Ask CEOs if the ability to increase profit margins year after year would help their companies compete more successfully against peers, and you’re likely to hear are sounding yes.… At some point,…

    February 2, 2018, 10:42 PM IST

  • Digital Strategy

    January 29, 2018, 11:00 PM IST

    By Paul Willmott Et Al The processing power of today’s smartphones is several thousand times greater than that of the computers that landed a man on the moon in 1969. These devices connect the majority…

    January 29, 2018, 11:00 PM IST

  • Managing decisions

    January 26, 2018, 11:09 PM IST

    By Walter Frick  Nobel-prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman has said that overconfidence is the bias he’d eliminate first if he had a magic wand. It’s ubiquitous, particularly among men, the wealthy, and even experts. Overconfidence is…

    January 26, 2018, 11:09 PM IST

  • Managing Resources

    January 22, 2018, 10:25 PM IST

    By Richard Dobbs et al Progressively cheaper natural resources underpinned 20thcentury global economic growth. But the 21st century could be different. Indeed, over the last 10 years, rapid economic development in emerging markets has wiped…

    January 22, 2018, 10:25 PM IST

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