Corporate Strategies in Consumer Health: As consumer health continues to expand, a growing number of companies from outside the industry are investing in the market. However, in some points – including manufacturing, advertising and distribution regulations – the industry can vary starkly from other consumer packaged goods industries. This global briefing explores the advantages and pitfalls inherent to the industry and how producers can adapt to the changing consumer and regulatory environments.
Telemedicine Market –India: Globally healthcare service providers are gradually employing technology to use remote communications and monitoring facilities to reduce costs and widen reach without compromising on the quality of care. Indian telemedicine market is currently at its early stage; however has tremendous potential to unfold in the years to come. The Indian telemedicine market is currently valued at INR 520 manned is expected to attain a CAGR of 21.6% to reach INR 1,385 mn by 2018.
Construction Equipment Market: The report Focus on infrastructure development offers strong growth potential for the Indian construction equipment market. Indian construction equipment market is one of the fastest growing markets in the world. Indian market is characterized by the dominance of foreign players alone or in partnership with Indian manufacturers of construction equipment. Bharat Earthmoving Ltd. set up the first construction equipment manufacturing unit in India.
The Role of ICT in Building Smart Cities -Infrastructure: The scope of the study is defined pragmatically by smart city goals, not a smart city label. The analysis focuses on three infrastructure-related smart city pillars—smart energy, smart transportation, and smart water—to show growth opportunities driven by future smart cities. Provide a market and technology analysis of the latest trends in smart energy, smart water, and smart transportation in urban spaces. Provide strategic recommendations to key stakeholders eyeing smart city markets.
Six Trends Shaping Consumer Appliances: The consumer appliances market is expected to see the emergence of a few influential trends over the next five years. These trends will focus on health and eating habits, while government regulations and policies will shape the inclusion of water and energy-saving features. Emerging and developed markets will have different product opportunities in the future. Last but not least, internet retailing will become a major channel for consumer appliances retailing.
Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets: Author examines the importance of professional relationships developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a destination firm trigger analysts following the origin firm to initiate coverage of the destination firm in 10 percent of our sample, which is significantly higher than in a matched sample.
Expanding the Younger Worker Employment Relationship: Insights from Values-Based Organizations: This article aims to expand understanding of managing younger workers by making work values central to their employment relationship. Attention is focused on values-based organizations where intrinsic values of societal contribution, work-life balance, and inclusive management practices may take on added significance for younger workers. Asking younger workers to explain what “success” or “efficiency” means to them in their work provides a window into the values-based reasoning underpinning younger workers’ work-related attitudes and behavior.
Making the Most of the Revolving Door: The Impact of Outward Personnel Mobility Networks on Organizational Creativity: We examine the impact of key personnel’s loss to competition on their former employers’ creative performance. Using archival data on the career histories of designers and the creative performance of their fashion houses between 2000 and 2010, we find that a house’s outward centrality in the network of personnel mobility—resulting from personnel departures—has an inverted U-shaped relationship with the house’s creative performance.
How Does CEO Tenure Matter? The Mediating Role of Firm-Employee and Firm-Customer Relationships: The direct influence of CEO tenure on firm performance has been examined in the strategy literature, the underlying channels of influence have remained largely unexplored. This article draws upon the career seasons paradigm, learning perspectives, and marketing literature to examine whether firm-employee and firm-customer relationships are the pathways through which CEO tenure influences firm performance.
Humble Chief Executive Officers' Connections to Top Management Team Integration and Middle Managers' Responses: Authors examine the concept of humility among chief executive officers and the process through which it is connected to integration in the top management team and middle managers’ responses. We develop and validate a comprehensive measure of humility using multiple samples and then test a multilevel model of how CEOs’ humility links to the processes of top and middle managers. We find CEO humility to be positively associated with empowering leadership behaviors.
MBA costs to go up by 19%, top B-schools set to hike fee for 2016: At least 10 of the country's top Bschools have either hiked fees or are proposing an increase of anywhere between 6-19% for the Class of 2016, citing inflation and rising operational costs. While the likes of XLRI, International Management Institute (IMI), MDI-Gurgaon, SPJIMR, XIM-Bhubaneswar and IIM-Ranchi have already approved fee hikes, others including IIM-Calcutta, IIM-Kozhikode, IIM-Udaipur and We School will decide over the next two-three weeks.
Academia is disconnected from the real world: Through a recent survey to more than 40 chief executives, published by Duke Corporate Education in 2013, chief executives have revealed the top skills they are looking for in business school graduates. They named key proficiencies such as problem-solving, the ability to connect different aspects of business, to think in a holistic way and the courage to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity.
Universities must opt for radical not incremental innovation: Business schools cannot unilaterally sweep away every one of the barriers to radical innovation in universities, but they are certainly well positioned to spearhead efforts to foster the sort of open-mindedness required to drag the sector from the rut of instrumentalism in which it currently finds itself. The issue of multidisciplinary collaboration provides perhaps the most obvious illustration.
IIM-A joins hands with Harvard, MIT and Berkeley for research: What happens when marquee institutions of the world —Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley — joins hands with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad? There will be joint research projects to develop field water quality testing and filtration equipment, ambient pollution measuring products and mobile technologies for health purposes.
Wharton and Harvard top research ranking: US business schools continue to dominate business school research, with 25 of the top 30 schools based there, according to the latest rankings from the Jindal School at the University of Texas at Dallas. Of the top 100 schools, 71 are based in the US. The ranking is topped by the Wharton school, followed by Harvard, NYU Stern and Michigan Ross.
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