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Chennai deluge: Everybody does not love a good flood
December 12, 2015, 4:01 AM IST
By MG Parameswaran After studying the way droughts affect poor farmers, journalist P Sainath wrote a series of essays which later became the book, Everybody Loves a Good Drought. One of Sainath’s stories speaks about…
December 12, 2015, 4:01 AM IST
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Trends in marketing
December 11, 2015, 5:41 AM IST
By Kartik Hosanagar An important theme of my research is how personalised recommendations and similar algorithms affect consumer choice. We see a personalised recommendations in a number of industries, whether it’s in retail, or in…
December 11, 2015, 5:41 AM IST
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For better management of public assets
December 10, 2015, 4:22 AM IST
By Dag Detter & Stefan Fölster When you look around the world, it’s almost as if Thatcher/Reagan economic revolution never happened. The largest pool of wealth in the world — a global total that is…
December 10, 2015, 4:22 AM IST
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Green & lean
December 9, 2015, 12:33 AM IST
Harsh Choudhry Et Al Innovative technologies could significantly reduce energy consumption and save industry more than $600 billion a year…Our five core principles of resource productivity are used to help make sense of what technologies…
December 9, 2015, 12:33 AM IST
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Every industry has an opportunity to leverage digital
December 8, 2015, 4:44 AM IST
By Ganesh Ayyar If you look at the dot-com era, it was a revolution of the business interface and people were talking about brick-and-mortar stores dying and ecommerce taking over. There was a lot of…
December 8, 2015, 4:44 AM IST
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Future trends
December 7, 2015, 4:48 AM IST
By Jacques Bughin Et Al When physical assets equipped with sensors give an information system the ability to capture, communicate and process data – and even, in a sense, to collaborate— they create game-changing opportunities:…
December 7, 2015, 4:48 AM IST
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Managing People
December 5, 2015, 12:31 PM IST
By Keith Rollag Success almost always requires putting yourself into new situations. To further your career, you must take new jobs, join new organisations, transfer to new office locations, and meet and build relationships with…
December 5, 2015, 12:31 PM IST
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Dangers of harmful debt creation get magnified by banks
December 4, 2015, 5:12 AM IST
By Adair Turner The dangers of excessive and harmful debt creation are hugely magnified by the existence of banks…almost any economics or finance textbook will describe how banks take money from savers and lend it…
December 4, 2015, 5:12 AM IST
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Managing artificial intelligence and robotics
December 3, 2015, 5:16 AM IST
By Michael Chui Et Al The potential of artificial intelligence and advanced robotics to perform tasks once reserved for humans is no longer reserved for spectacular demonstrations by the likes of IBM’s Watson, Rethink Robotics’…
December 3, 2015, 5:16 AM IST
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How do countries manage catching up?
December 2, 2015, 5:33 AM IST
By Bart Verspagen How do countries catch up? In our view, international technology flows play a central role in the growth and development process. We have demonstrated that moving from a low development state to…
December 2, 2015, 5:33 AM IST
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Energy dynamics
December 1, 2015, 5:12 AM IST
By Harsh Choudhry et al As the world grows, in both wealth and population, so will the demand for energy: global primary-energy consumption is on course to increase by 25% between now and 2030. At…
December 1, 2015, 5:12 AM IST
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Digital shopping
November 30, 2015, 3:33 AM IST
By Puneet Newaskar et al e-Commerce has disrupted retail with new marketplaces and shopping tools, but one sector was for a long time blissfully above the blast area: consumer packaged goods (CPG). In fact, CPG…
November 30, 2015, 3:33 AM IST
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Thought Leaders
November 28, 2015, 2:40 AM IST
By Mark Bonchek We all aspire to work better together. Technology is making some of that effort easier. But digital tools are only part of the answer. It’s people who ultimately make the difference. The…
November 28, 2015, 2:40 AM IST
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Ethics and Morality
November 27, 2015, 5:00 AM IST
By Robert Hughes For citizens and residents, there can be a moral obligation to follow laws that are unenforced or under-enforced. Just because you could get away with breaking the law doesn’t mean you’re entitled…
November 27, 2015, 5:00 AM IST
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Think within the box
November 26, 2015, 3:38 AM IST
By Donald Sull Can organisations embrace a more disciplined approach to innovation? One productive approach is to apply a few simple rules to key steps in the innovation process. Simple rules add structure to help…
November 26, 2015, 3:38 AM IST
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Modern Times
November 25, 2015, 3:44 AM IST
By Sukriti Bansal Et Al Global payments revenues have been growing at rates in excess of expectations. Once again, Asia — and China in particular — is the primary engine propelling the global numbers, but…
November 25, 2015, 3:44 AM IST
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China Trends
November 24, 2015, 2:50 AM IST
By Erik Roth Et Al The events of 2015 have shown that China is passing through a challenging transition: the labour-force expansion and surging investment that propelled three decades of growth are now weakening. This…
November 24, 2015, 2:50 AM IST
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Financial markets
November 23, 2015, 3:10 AM IST
By Adair Turner All financial markets are to different degrees imperfect and subject to surges of exuberance and then despair, which take prices far from rational equilibrium levels and can result in inefficient misallocation of…
November 23, 2015, 3:10 AM IST
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Understanding ‘disruptive innovation’
November 20, 2015, 4:41 AM IST
By Clayton Christensen Et Al The term ‘disruptive innovation’ is misleading when used to refer to a product or service at one fixed point, rather than to the evolution of that product or service over…
November 20, 2015, 4:41 AM IST
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Why India’s petrochemical companies need to step up production of intermediates
November 19, 2015, 6:53 AM IST
By Avinash Goyal Et Al India continues to invest heavily in bulk petrochemical capacity to move closer to self-sufficiency, while the specialties sector remains a strong performer poised for advances. But what’s less recognised is…
November 19, 2015, 6:53 AM IST
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