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Is marketing being eliminated by consumers?
November 18, 2015, 5:45 AM IST
By Curtis Hougland Marketing is culture, and culture is marketing in the US.… In days gone by, ads interspersed Life magazine’s pages, punctuated scenes of All In The Family and framed the web pages of…
November 18, 2015, 5:45 AM IST
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Do modern financial systems create excessive debt ?
November 17, 2015, 6:56 AM IST
By Adair Turner For many decades before the 2007-08 crisis, finance got bigger relative to the real economy. Its share of the US and UK economies tripled between 1950 and the 2000s.… In the advanced…
November 17, 2015, 6:56 AM IST
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Why teaching is a better way to learn than being taught
November 16, 2015, 6:14 AM IST
By Russell Ackoff Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching, there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, most of what we…
November 16, 2015, 6:14 AM IST
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Managing asset: Outcomes matter more than performance versus a benchmark
November 14, 2015, 3:41 AM IST
By Rob Leary The biggest change in asset management in recent years is the shift from active to passive asset management. There’s been a proliferation of exchange traded funds more broadly, too. But even more…
November 14, 2015, 3:41 AM IST
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Using digital technologies for enhancing productivity of mining industry
November 13, 2015, 4:02 AM IST
HUGH DURRANT-WHYTE ET AL The global mining industry is under pressure. In the short term, falling commodity prices are squeezing cash flow. Looking ahead, many existing mines are maturing, resulting in the extraction of lower…
November 13, 2015, 4:02 AM IST
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Marketing in the digital-technology age
November 12, 2015, 4:21 AM IST
By David Edelman The flare-up around advertising blockers on mobile devices is the latest salvo in the digital-technology ‘arms race’ that has made today’s consumer a formidable force. From social media to mobile devices, technologies…
November 12, 2015, 4:21 AM IST
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Moonshot strategy
November 11, 2015, 3:00 AM IST
By John Sculley Some events stand out as so groundbreaking that they completely change life as we know it. The Apollo moon landing of 1961 was one of those landmark events — the invention of…
November 11, 2015, 3:00 AM IST
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Even with Bihar loss, PM Narendra Modi still Washington’s India go-to man
November 11, 2015, 1:54 AM IST
By Seema Sirohi There is no other way to play it — the Americans, like most Indians, see the Bihar results as a setback for Narendra Modi and a definitive defeat of divisive politics. The Amit…
November 11, 2015, 1:54 AM IST
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Decision theory
November 10, 2015, 3:52 AM IST
By Michael Platt My research focuses on how the brain makes decisions. We study decision-making in a number of contexts — under conditions of uncertainty and risk, and when the world is complicated by the…
November 10, 2015, 3:52 AM IST
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Project appeal
November 7, 2015, 7:29 AM IST
By Marc Goedhart Et Al Executives, analysts and investors often rely on internal-rateof-return (IRR) calculations as one measure of a project’s yield. Private equity firms use it as a shorthand benchmark to compare the relative…
November 7, 2015, 7:29 AM IST
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Corporate Growth
November 6, 2015, 6:29 AM IST
By Yuval Atsmon Growth is magic. It makes it easier to fund new investments, attract great talent and acquire assets. But the environment for growth has been difficult since 2008, and while there are signs…
November 6, 2015, 6:29 AM IST
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Chinese syndrome
November 5, 2015, 2:15 AM IST
Alibaba’s Jack Ma has emerged as China’s first truly global leader, the face of the new China: a free-enterprise entrepreneur working within the confines of a Communist government to build a much more equitable society….
November 5, 2015, 2:15 AM IST
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Managing people
November 3, 2015, 2:34 AM IST
Few disagree that it’s time to reimagine complex organisations so that they are more human and agile. But existing models for how to make the shift seem to offer a choice between a rock and…
November 3, 2015, 2:34 AM IST
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The culture of science
October 30, 2015, 6:49 AM IST
By: David Wootton Before 1492, it was assumed that all significant knowledge was already available. The discovery of America demonstrated that new knowledge was possible: indeed, it introduced the very concept of ‘discovery,’ and opened…
October 30, 2015, 6:49 AM IST
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Managing change
October 29, 2015, 6:16 AM IST
By: Nick Tasler Virtually every leader wishes they had the power to inspire people to change. That’s because every leader has experienced times when they have identified a change that had to be made, devised…
October 29, 2015, 6:16 AM IST
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Capital issue
October 28, 2015, 5:15 AM IST
By: Tim Koller Returning cash to shareholders is on the rise for large US-based companies.… Share buybacks alone have risen to about 47% of the market’s income since 2011, from about 23% in the early…
October 28, 2015, 5:15 AM IST
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Ethical dilemmas
October 27, 2015, 7:09 AM IST
By: Nitin Nohria Moral overconfidence is on display in politics, in business, in sports — in all aspects of life… There are CEOs who come in promising to build a business for the long term…
October 27, 2015, 7:09 AM IST
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Policy Design
October 26, 2015, 6:58 AM IST
By Barry Eichengreen There are good reasons for recovery from a slump caused by a financial crisis to be slower than a normal recovery. Financial crises follow periods when households, in their exuberance, incur heavy…
October 26, 2015, 6:58 AM IST
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Tricks, Traps & Economics
October 24, 2015, 6:53 AM IST
George A Akerlof & Robert J Shiller As exceptions, behavioural economists, especially for the past 40 years, have been studying the relationship between psychology and economics. Curiously, they’ve never interpreted their results in the context…
October 24, 2015, 6:53 AM IST
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Urban Design: India’s remarkable urban moment
October 23, 2015, 4:31 AM IST
By Gavin Shatkin & Sanjeev Vidyarthi India is experiencing a remarkable urban moment.… This book examines the changing dynamics of political power in Indian cities and their implications for the spatial and social development. In…
October 23, 2015, 4:31 AM IST
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