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INDUSTRY WATCH

Dairy Market Outlook : The dairy market has encountered volatile market conditions, and the changing dynamics of the dairy market has provided dairy producers with opportunities to tap into growth markets. Changing population dynamics and income levels in emerging markets has seen demand increase for dairy products.

The Nanotechnology Opportunity in Food and Drinks Packaging : Nanotechnology is the technology employed in developing products on a nanometer scale (nanoscale), which can have different properties from macro-sized versions of the same materials.

Logistics Sector in India : National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has earmarked INR 20 bn for developing warehousing facilities across India. It aims to do this under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) to ensure safe storage of food grains promised under the recently cleared Food Security Bill.

Innovations in Consumer Finance : Truly successful new innovations hit at the core of the financial cards business: increasing card payments by convincing consumers there is tangible benefit to using cards over cash.

The Future of Tablets : This global briefing considers the development of the global market for tablets and other portable computers over the 2011-2015 period.

ARTICLE ALERT

Why Good jobs are good for retailers :
Retailers have long believed that the only way to compete on price is to offer workers low wages, poor benefits, constantly changing schedules, and little opportunity for advancement.

Wiring the open-source enterprise : Social technologies lie at the core of a new model that spurs user participation and speeds up product innovation.

How the Growth Outliers Do It : Few companies manage to prosper over the long term. Those that do are both more stable and more innovative than their competition. Steady, predictable growth is what every big company strives for and what investors prize above all else.

A rising role for IT : New technology platforms and capabilities are clearly creating new opportunities at many different levels within organizations. We often see business executives experimenting with these platforms outside of IT’s awareness or permission.

A wake-up call for Big Pharma : The good old days of the pharmaceutical industry are gone forever. Even an improved global economic climate is unlikely to halt efforts by the developed world’s governments to contain spending on drugs.

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More students opting for higher education : Student enrolment in higher education has seen a sharp increase, a development that’s expected to hearten policymakers, educationists and industry in a country where companies have for long complained about the lack of a sufficiently deep talent pool.

The B-school divide : As the slowdown clouds get darker in the new year, there is an interesting divide among the country’s business schools. Even as the mood is gloomy in the top schools (Indian Institutes of Management, International Business School and so on) that are set to start with their placement season, the not-so-marquee names are having a reasonably good run.

Fresh experiences in the field : MIT’s Sloan School of Management is launching a capstone course for its Executive MBA programme that involves on-site, experiential learning at an overseas company, a class that school officials say is an attempt to redefine the standard “business school junket”.

Asian firms tap Western business schools : To sustain the high rate of growth in the emerging markets, there is a sense they need to develop worldclass capabilities,” said Harbir Singh, professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Pressing for Women's Gains : Women are a more common sight at business schools than they were 10 years ago, but that change is too slow for Elissa Ellis Sangster, executive director of Forté Foundation, a 10-year-old organization that provides leadership resources for women.


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