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Apparel: Dealing With Price Pressure and Cutting the Cloth Accordingly: The core objective of this report is to examine the current state of the global apparel industry and determine the future opportunities within respective regions. It is the first report in a series of two global apparel overviews focusing on geographies. The second part will focus on category performance, competitive environment and distribution channels.
India Financial: Weighing all risks, Seeing some opportunities : Moderating economic growth and sticky rates would continue to impact loan growth and asset quality trend would remain volatile over the next two quarters, with some more pain expected from SME/Agri portfolios. However, at the margins, NIMs have bounced back and peaking rate cycle would be a sentiment positive.
Mobile Advertising Market in India: Mobile advertising is the act of using mobile devices such as cellular phones & Tablet PCs as a medium to deliver promotional messages, Current market size of the Mobile Advertisement Market in India
Successful Strategies for Pharmaceutical Reformulation: Drug delivery technology utilization is a critical development pathway for pharmaceutical companies to sustain revenues and market share for their patented products. They also serve to reinvigorate a diminishing brand, leverage patent extension, and maintain market dominance.The global drug delivery-based product market is currently valued at over $100bn annually showing an increase of 36% in global revenues between 2005 and 2009.
Indian Non-Alcoholic Beverages Market Outlook to 2015 - Rising Health Consciousness among Consumers: The report discusses in details various aspects such as market size of bottled water, carbonated soft drinks, coffee, juice (unpackaged and packaged juice), tea and energy drinks segment on the basis of consumption, per capita consumption, market segmentation, competitive landscape of the major players operating in the country.
Which Strategy When: Markets are changing, competition is shifting and your business may be suffering or perhaps thriving, at least for now. The strategic plans, market analyses and hefty binders that strategy consulting firms leave behind often jumble strategic lenses: Five-Forces analysis, portfolio review, assessment of core competencies; examination of profit pools, competitive landscape and so on.
Key changes and challenges for brands in an uncertain environment: The world in which we live is far more complex today than it was just a few years ago because of a feverish and fascinating process of perpetual change. New technologies bursting onto the scene. Brands are facing key changes and challenges that need to be addressed from both the academic as well as the managerial perspectives.
How social technologies are extending the organization: Companies are improving their mastery of social technologies, using them to enhance operations and exploit new market opportunities—key findings of our fifth annual survey on these tools and technologies, in which we asked more than 4,200 global executives how organizations deploy them and the benefits they confer.
Like it or Not: Differences in Advertising Likeability and Dislikeability Within Asia: It is widely accepted that ad likeability effects advertising effectiveness. Previous research considers likeability and dislikeabilty to exist on one continuum. This research suggests that they should be treated as separate constructs. Using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, this research suggests that the effect of likeabilty and dislikeability is not universal and differs between cultures.
A better way to merge companies: The old way to conduct mergers and acquisitions was to have the top brass of the firm do a deal, then pass the messy details to others who have had no prior involvement.
Internationalization of MBA is important: Nunzio Quacquarelli is the managing director, Quacquarelli Symonds Limited (of the QS World University rankings fame), and is recognized as an authority on the strengths, weaknesses and specializations of business schools and universities around the world. Quacquarelli talks about the changing &n bsp; trends in management education.
A summer of finance at IIMs: Slowdown casts a shadow on summer placements at B-schools, but the scenario isn’t all bleak. Summer placements at B-schools this season weren’t as bright as last year, but offers from the finance sector added a silver lining.
Women must appreciate the value of an MBA: Recent news that Virginia Rometty will become the first female chief executive of IBM, and separate debate about country quotas for women’s representation on boards, have sparked a renewed dialogue on what it will take to catapult more women to the upper ranks of companies.
MBAs focus on entrepreneurship: The MBA used to be the preserve of the senior manager – the best way to clamber up the career ladder to a lucrative boardroom position. Then came the recession, and thousands more business men and women at every stage in their careers were adding the three letters after their name in a bid to boost their employability.
MBA insights strike a chord with students in high school: Roger Martin, dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management is right, the lessons in problem-solving and decision-making that John Polanyi’s students are learning could be as valuable as an MBA – perhaps even more so – in equipping the teenagers for corporate boardrooms and other leadership roles.
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