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Future shocks
December 17, 2017, 11:33 PM IST
By Siddhartha Mukherjee As I write this, organisms endowed with genomes are learning to change the heritable features of organisms endowed with genomes. I mean the following: in just the last four years—between 2012 and…
December 17, 2017, 11:33 PM IST
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The numbers games
December 16, 2017, 12:13 AM IST
Companies are moving quickly to apply machine learning to business decision-making. New programmes are constantly being launched, setting complex algorithms to work on large, frequently refreshed data sets. The speed at which this is taking…
December 16, 2017, 12:13 AM IST
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Can blockchain bridge the economic divide for the developing world?
December 12, 2017, 12:22 AM IST
By Mir Haque Can blockchain technology, the decentralised peer-to-peer network underpinning cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, bridge the economic divide for the developing world the same way that the internet has bridged the information gap? Developments…
December 12, 2017, 12:22 AM IST
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Literary License
December 4, 2017, 11:15 PM IST
By Kazuo Ishiguro It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days. An expedition, I should say, which I will undertake alone, in…
December 4, 2017, 11:15 PM IST
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Making a case for behavioural strategy
December 3, 2017, 10:45 PM IST
By Dan Lovallo Once heretical, behavioural economics is now mainstream. Money managers employ its insights about the limits of rationality in understanding investor behaviour and exploiting stock-pricing anomalies. Policymakers use behavioural principles to boost participation…
December 3, 2017, 10:45 PM IST
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On big data & inventory
December 2, 2017, 12:31 AM IST
By Gah-Yi Ban Most of us are aware of the enormous environmental cost of waste production, and do what we can by recycling and careful purchasing. Urging individual consumers to play their part is one…
December 2, 2017, 12:31 AM IST
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Of ideas and opinions
November 30, 2017, 11:47 PM IST
By Richard Bookstaber This book explores what it would mean to follow the path to see where it leads. It provides a non-technical introduction to agent-based modelling, an alternative to neoclassical economics that shows great…
November 30, 2017, 11:47 PM IST
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Whither data analytics?
November 26, 2017, 10:51 PM IST
By Julian Birkinshaw We believe the case for big data and advanced analytics is overstated. Yes, these will continue to be important techniques for staying in the race, but as information becomes more ubiquitous and…
November 26, 2017, 10:51 PM IST
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Create social businesses
November 25, 2017, 12:37 AM IST
By Muhammad Yunus Poverty doesn’t come from the poor people themselves; poverty is imposed from outside. It’s something that we have in the economic system, which creates poverty…One struggle that I had all of my…
November 25, 2017, 12:37 AM IST
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Banking Regulation
November 22, 2017, 11:10 PM IST
By Stefan Koch ET AL The Basel III regulatory framework was developed to enhance the stability of the financial system by raising requirements on regulatory capital and liquidity. Basel III increased thresholds for capital quality…
November 22, 2017, 11:10 PM IST
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Numbers Gaming
November 20, 2017, 10:30 PM IST
By W Brian Arthur About every 20 years or so, the digital revolution morphs and brings us something qualitatively different. The first morphing, in the 1970s and 1980s, brought us integrated circuits: tiny processors and…
November 20, 2017, 10:30 PM IST
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Global Village
November 17, 2017, 11:09 PM IST
By Kalin Anev Janse Despite growing populism, Europe’s citizens have confidently stood for democracy, open borders, economic reforms and more Europe. The results of the elections in the Netherlands and France bore witness to the…
November 17, 2017, 11:09 PM IST
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Managing Oneself
November 16, 2017, 11:41 PM IST
By Art Markman There is a broad consensus across many schools that teach leadership education about the core elements of what leaders need to know. These factors include the ability to motivate self and others,…
November 16, 2017, 11:41 PM IST
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Managing change
November 16, 2017, 12:17 AM IST
By N Anand Corporate transformations still have a miserable success rate, even though scholars and consultants have significantly improved our understanding of how they work. Studies consistently report that about three-quarters of change efforts flop…
November 16, 2017, 12:17 AM IST
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Cultural economics
November 12, 2017, 10:51 PM IST
By Gary Saul Morson Economics is a powerful discipline.… But most economic models of human behaviour disregard psychology, studies of the cycle of poverty ignore sociology and anthropology, and analyses of the past bypass historians….
November 12, 2017, 10:51 PM IST
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Of mentors and mentees
November 10, 2017, 11:34 PM IST
By Vineet Chopra The mentor-mentee relationshipis a tango between a more senior person and a junior one. And while we and others have written about what makes the ideal mentor, comparatively less attention has been…
November 10, 2017, 11:34 PM IST
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Managing strategy
November 9, 2017, 11:14 PM IST
By Freek Vermeulen Areal strategy involves a clear set of choices that define what the firm is going to do and what it’s not going to do. Many strategies fail to get implemented, despite the…
November 9, 2017, 11:14 PM IST
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Banking on automation
November 8, 2017, 11:45 PM IST
By Federico Berruti Et Al Automation is the focus of intense interest in the global banking industry. Many banks are rushing to deploy the latest automation technologies in the hope of delivering the next wave…
November 8, 2017, 11:45 PM IST
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How Steve Jobs pioneered ‘experience marketing’
November 6, 2017, 11:00 PM IST
By John Sculley There is Steve Jobs 1.0 and there is Steve Jobs 2.0. Most people know Steve Jobs 2.0, who was probably the most successful CEO ever. He was brilliant and created products that…
November 6, 2017, 11:00 PM IST
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Thinking globally
November 6, 2017, 12:50 AM IST
By Kalin Anev Janse Ayear ago, we were shaken by geopolitical shifts with unpredictable ripple effects. The situation looks no more stable today. The Brexit vote and the US presidential election outcome signal dramatic changes…
November 6, 2017, 12:50 AM IST
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