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The Power Storage Technologies Market Outlook : Power storage technologies offer the potential to store power during off-peak hours and replace the need to build additional power generation facilities, which would otherwise be required to supply power during peak loads.

Retail: Realized, Reorganized, Revitalized : India is the fifth largest retail market globally, with a size of US$500b, and has been growing at 7% per annum. Organized retail accounts for just 5% of total retail sales and has been growing at 35% CAGR.

Industry Monitor : Gives insights into the recent developments and review of latest financial of different industries Industry Monitor, Industry Outlook, coal, Iron, Steel Products, Man made fibres, Power, Sugar, Tea, Tyres etc.

The Global Pharmaceutical Fine Chemicals Market Outlook to 2015 : PFC industry revenues have increased substantially during the last decade due to increased pharma outsourcing and advanced PFC manufacturing processes. These trends will drive growth in the PFC industry during 2009–15 period.


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Creating more value with corporate strategy
: The development of a corporate strategy should amount to more than the aggregation of business unit strategies. The best corporate strategies, in our experience, force a multibusiness company to make clear choices about its portfolio and the allocation of its resources.

Behavioral Anatomy of the Financial Crisis : In view of the challenges facing the neoclassical paradigm of economy, behavioral finance which offers an alternative way of looking at the processes taking place in capital markets is growing in importance.

Studying Leadership Critically: A Psychosocial Lens on Leadership Identities : Many studies of leader ship continue to construct a vision of an omnipotent, transcendental being of a leader, and this transcendental being has to be challenged: no one can be that person.

3P Framework: Rural Marketing in India : The marketing firms are bling to the six lakhs villages in India, perhaps the largest rural market, owing to urban myopia. These firms should adopt the 3P Framework of Rural Marketing.

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ISB student offered annual pay of Rs 39 lakh : The Indian School of Business (ISB)has so far seen the highest domestic job offer on its campus at Rs 39 lakh from a private equity firm, according to two recruiters familiar with the development. The highest domestic offer made last year was of Rs 40 lakh. V K Menon, senior director, Career Advancement Services at ISB, declined to give any details regarding the final placements.

FT Global Top MBA rankings 2011 : ISB’s Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) has been ranked in the Global Top 20 for the fourth successive year : The Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) of the Indian School of Business (ISB) has been ranked No: 13 in the Global Top MBA rankings 2011 released today by the Financial Times, London. It also recorded the highest “Salary percentage increase” among all the top 100 schools. This is the fourth successive year that the ISB has featured in the top 20, reinforcing its reputation as a world class institution.

Cambridge’s Judge reaches out to aspiring entrepreneurs : Cambridge University launches post-graduate diploma in entrepreneurship : Cambridge University’s Judge Business School is building on its strength in entrepreneurship to launch a one-year postgraduate diploma in the subject. The part-time programme will begin in September 2011, and will require participants to spend three weeks on the Judge campus during the year and complete 10 hours of online learning a week in addition.

CAT results declared ; eight candidates score 100 percentile : The process of admissions to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) has begun, with the announcement of the Common Admission Test (CAT) results across the country today. The test was aced by 27 engineers, of whom eight scored 100 and 19 a 99.9 percentile. Of them, 25 were boys and one girl each from Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.


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