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The Indian Pesticides Industry : A pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest. While farmers have been doing pest management since the onset of agricultural production, the discovery of the pesticide properties of synthetic chemicals in the middle of the 20th century has transformed agriculture.
Entertainment and Media Market in India : The Entertainment and Media industry is a highly dynamic industry that provides entertainment content in media such as books, magazines, radio, TV, websites, games, and others. It is one of the fastest growing industries in India. It comprises various segments, such as TV, Print, and Film – these being the major segments, followed by smaller but rapidly growing segments, such as Radio, Music, OOH, Animation, Gaming, Visual Effects, and Digital Advertising.
Asia Pacific Telecommunications :Mobile services have reached more people than the fixed telecoms network ever did. The consumers these days cannot imagine life without their mobile devices. The smartphone market is growing faster than the overall market for mobile handsets. The vast choice of digital content supported by the Android and Apple operating systems (OS) is another incentive for customers looking for always on, accessible-everywhere services.
Global Travel Trends Report 2013 :The travel industry has great expertise in creating and marketing family products and will reap the benefits by expanding the term 'family' to PANKs and other non-traditional family types. Non-traditional demographic groups are emerging with PANKs 'Professional Aunt, No Kids,' a new target market in the US, while child-friendly and multi-generational safaris in Africa are growing more popular.
Spirits in India : The spirits market consists of the sale of brandy, liqueurs, rum, specialty spirits, vodka, whisky and other (Tequila & Mezcal and Gin & Genever). The market is valued according to retail selling price (RSP) and includes any applicable taxes. For the purposes of this report, Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Transgenerational succession in business groups in India :The article examines succession-related issues in business groups in India, where they comprise a species of the genus of family business and account for a sizable proportion of the economy. It notes that succession in business groups in India has frequently entailed family feuds and business splits whose effects are not limited to the concerned family alone.
The roles of planning, learning, and mental models in repeated dynamic decision making Repeated search and decision making is a common consumer activity that should benefit from advanced planning. In three simulated shopping experiments, we find that people often fail to plan spontaneously or, when they do plan, do not use an appropriate mental model of the search problem. We also manipulate the mental models used by subjects and find that while our manipulation successfully encourages the development of appropriate mental models and improves performance.
How B2B companies talk past their customers : Research on organization slack has focused mainly on its effect in large publicly traded firms, but little work exists on the value of slack resources for other firms. Therefore, here, we address the question: Do slack resources matter in the case of initial public offerings (IPOs)? We argue that firms that possess financial, innovational, and managerial slack resources are sending a positive signal to potential investors regarding the quality of the IPO.
How Serious Is Climate Change to Business : How are managers thinking about climate change? Within the scientific community, climate change is increasingly seen as one of the most important long-term issues facing humanity. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international scientific group recognized as an authority on climate change and its risks, wrote in a recent draft of a forthcoming report that human activity has almost certainly caused average global temperatures to increase during the second half of the twentieth century.
Finding Your Digital Sweet Spot : The potential impact of digital technology varies widely by industry, but most enterprise leaders share an important challenge: how to get beyond the small share of the prize they are capturing today by looking for impact across the whole value chain.
More women register for CAT this year : While the Common Admission Test (CAT) registrations have dropped from 214,000 last year to 194,000 this year, the ratio of women candidates is going up. Women aspirant registrations are up to 29 per cent from 27 per cent in 2012, by data announced by the Indian Institutes of Management for CAT 2013. This year, CAT will be held between October and November.
Students Get Real on Jobs : Amidst the dwindling job market owing to the global economic slowdown, understanding the pulse of job seekers and their mindset is very important. Economic Times highlights student sentiments in such times from findings of a recent survey conducted by Aspiring Minds on students to understand their aspirations and flexibilities regarding bagging a job. The survey brought out very vocal sentiments of students along with highlighting their areas of interest and disinterest.
Making online management education affordable : MyBskool.com caters to half a million registered learners currently, and is targeting three million users by 2014. MyBskool has tied up with IIM-Ranchi and Madras Management Association (MMA) to launch for the first time in India a free online 'mini MBA' course. It now runs a fee-based programme certified by the MMA, the content for which is created by IIM Ranchi.
QS TopMBA.com Jobs & Salary Trends Report 2013/14 : QS TopMBA.com Jobs Index shows an overall 14% increase in MBA job opportunities in 2013. While this is a drop from the 15% growth recorded in 2012, it is still very favorable compared to the -5% decline experienced as recently as 2009, and remains in line with the long-term trend growth rate of 15% per annum as reported by QS TopMBA since 1990. India continues to be a major market for the business education market.
Innovative Marketing is Focus of Wharton Executive Education's First Online Program : For the first time in its history, Wharton Executive Education is offering executives anywhere in the world the chance to enroll in a premier program online called the Strategic Value of Customer Relationships. Taught by world-renowned Wharton Marketing professor Peter Fader, the program is designed to help executives sell more effectively to existing best customers and find new customers with similar behavioral tendencies.
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