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India- Commercial Banking Report: Private sector banks in India are poised to outperform public sector banks (PSBs) on the back of strong capitalization and a wave of acquisitions, which will put them on the front foot. That said, the ongoing restructuring of State Bank of India (SBI), the largest state-owned bank, will be a long-term positive for the overall financial sector and the economy.
Global 2015-2019 Internet of Things (IOT) Market: The IoT is a network of physical, tangible objects that are interconnected through technology and can communicate among themselves and with the internal and external environment.The growth of the Global IoT market is driven by several factors. The growing number of smart connected devices such as portable navigation devices, media players, and imaging devices has resulted in an increase in the demand for the IoT worldwide.
Electricity Retailing in India: The electricity retailing market consists of the net consumption of electricity by end-users, segmented by industrial, transportation, commercial & public services, and residential consumption. India's electricity retailing market demonstrated very strong electricity consumption growth as a whole for the 2010-2014 periods.
Healthcare 2015-2019 IT Market in India: Healthcare IT systems improve the quality and efficiency of services delivered and help in reducing errors in the Healthcare industry. Healthcare providers and institutions are increasingly adopting corporate culture, which is fueling demand for IT solutions in the Healthcare industry. Another major driver is the increased need for storing and using patient information.
Strategic Analysis of the Indian Automotive Aftermarket: High growth of vehicles in operation and India’s emergence as an automotive manufacturing hub opens up new opportunities for the automotive aftermarket. A unique feature of the Indian aftermarket is the strong presence of two-wheel motorcycles and scooters as the primary mode of personal transportation, but ownership of personal-use vehicles is also growing sharply.
Why You Decide the Way You Do : Too many choices or too many features per choice can cause people to delay decisions or make less-than-optimal choices. For executives, making good decisions is essential. New research offers insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.
Help-Seeking and Help-Giving as an Organizational Routine : Literature on help-giving behavior identifies individual-level factors that affect a help-giver's decision to help another individual. It is found that workplace help-seeking and help-giving can be intertwined behaviours enacted through an organizational routine.
Green Innovation Games : This study builds on insights from 49 sustainability leaders in the U.S. by examining green innovation from the game perspective. It explores how corporate sustainability can advance environmentally friendly innovations, and what managerial roles and activities are required to enable the transformation. It identifies four green innovation games characterized by different underlying value creation logics and organizational and mental barriers.
Inside the “Black Box” of Sell-Side Financial Analysts : Author’s objective is to penetrate the “black box” of sell-side financial analysts by providing new insights into inputs analysts use and incentives they face. Authors survey 365-analysts and conduct 18 follow-up interviews covering wide range of topics, including the inputs to analysts’ earnings forecasts and stock recommendations, the value of their industry knowledge, the determinants of their compensation, the career benefits of Institutional Investor All-Star status, and the factors they consider indicative of high-quality earnings.
Effects of managerial labor market on executive compensation : Companies dramatically raise their incumbent executives’ pay, especially equity-based pay, after losing executives to other firms. Pay raise is larger when incumbent executives have greater employment mobility in the labor market, when companies lose senior executives, and when job-hopping executives receive favorable job offers in their new firms.
Alliance Between Business Schools Aims to Strengthen Asia's pool of Emerging CFOs: In a landmark collaboration between two leading business schools from the East and West, the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth) will team up to develop human capital for Asia's dynamic economies and corporations through a series of executive education programs for business leaders.
Ways to charm a venture capitalist: Financial leverage is at the heart of business, Professor Bouchikhi notes. It gives company owners access to extra funds by allowing them to take on more debt while retaining their equity stake.
Alumni Perspectives Survey 2015: The Alumni Perspectives Survey is a product of the Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®), a global nonprofit education organization of leading graduate business schools and the owner of the Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®).
The New Business Plan for Executives Who Want to Do Good: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has come up with a new methodology to figure out how business leaders can improve their bottom line while also making a positive social impact.
What students at the world’s top-ranked business school think it’s doing wrong: Students were asked to rate how likely they would be to recommend the school from one to 10. The school had a net promoter rating of 51, calculated by totaling the scores of promoters (scores of nine and 10) and subtracting the totaled scores of detractors (scores of one to six.)
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