INDUSTRY WATCH

Global Personal Products : Market size, share and segmentation data plus detailed analysis and company information for the global personal products industry.

Breakfast Cereals in Asia-Pacific : Market size, share and segmentation data plus detailed analysis and company information for the Asia-Pacific breakfast cereals industry.

Global Clothing & Footwear : Insights into unlocking opportunity in a challenging operating Climate

The Hepatitis Market Outlook 2015 : The competitive landscape, market size, pipeline analysis and growth opportunities in the industry.

India Autos Report : This report Includes a 5 year forecast, up to 2014, including a SWOT analysis for India's automobile and vehicle market..



B-SCHOOL INFOWATCH

Women post highest-ever levels of MBA applications : More women than ever before are seeing business school and corporate careers as an option, according to two recent influential surveys of global MBA candidates

Diverse talent in ISB's class of 2011 : Three students apart from honing their skills in corporate business are passionate about Kuchipudi, mountaineering and painting.

Recruitment of mgmt professionals in PSUs rises to 7%': In what can be seen as good news for management professionals in India, recruitments of such professionals in the public sector has increased to seven percent, out of the total placements, according to a survey

Financial Times has announced the EMBA rankings for the year of 2010 : The Financial Times and Business Education present the 2010 ranking for providers of executive MBA programmes as well as news and features on the state of the sector.

Do you think it is imperative to have international faculty in a B-school Campus: Here are the views of a group of MBA students on the benefits of having international faculty in a business school

ISB to hold emerging markets meet : The ISB in association with Massachusetts-based Marketing Science Institute (MSI), will organise a conference on “Marketing in Emerging Markets: The Indian Experience”.

The corporate education iceberg : Looking at their corporate education and training, most organisations only see the tip of the iceberg, treating employee training and development as a functional activity and just another business expense.



ARTICLE ALERT

The Real Job of Boards : Widely seen as the key for ensuring quality in corporate governance, the board of directors has been a particular focal point for reform. Harry Korine, Marcus Alexander and Pierre-Yves Gomez believe that more leadership at board level could avert many corporate crises in the future.

Getting more from your training programmes : To improve results from training programmes, executives must focus on what happens in the workplace before and after employees go to class.

Competing on Talent Analytics : Do you think you know how to get the best from your people? Or do you know? How do investments in your employees actually affect workforce performance? Who are your top performers? How can you empower and motivate other employees to excel?

The Untapped Gold Mine : Management guru, Late CK Prahlad, hinted at the gold mine at the 'bottom of pyramid'. A look at how seriously marketers delved into the theory in the last 12 months

How Centered achieves extraordinary results : Executives can thrive at work and in life by adopting a leadership model that revolves around finding their strengths and connecting with others.

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