INDUSTRY WATCH

Domestic Formulations: New Peaks: The India domestic pharma story is founded on 4 pillars, what we call the 4 A's - Affordability, Access, Awareness, Ailments. Currently, India has one of the world's lowest per capita spend on pharmaceuticals. As India's per capita income grows going forward, healthcare spend is expected to witness one of the highest growth rate among all categories over the next two decades.

India Commercial Banking: The global banking sector is at a potential turning point. Concerns over banking system solvency are rising as sovereign debtors in developed states are put under increasing scrutiny. Private sector deleveraging threatens not only asset and loan growth, but also the economic growth required to keep loan performance sustainable.

The Cloud- Changing the Business Ecosystem: Technology has always played the role of a disruptive force that somehow connects discontinuities and changes business models, ecosystems, or even the world order. The Cloud is another such phenomenon that has stirred up interests and investments in many parts of the world.

Biotechnology in Asia-Pacific: The biotechnology market consists of the development, manufacturing and marketing of products based on advanced biotechnology research. The market value reflects revenues of companies within this industry from product sales, licensing fees, royalties and research funding.

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Learning to live with complexity : Managing a business today is fundamentally different than it was just 30 years ago. The most profound difference, is the level of complexity people have to cope with. In just a short time, most businesses have gone from complicated to complex. They contain numerous diverse, interdependent parts. This makes managers jobs much more difficult.

Can Marketing Lift Stock Prices: Certain types of marketing efforts, those developed using analytics to identify customers lifetime value to a company, can create shareholder value and influence stock prices in a predictable fashion.

Finding the courage to shrink: It takes courage to break up a company. CEOs and boards of directors often fear that investors will view asset divestitures as admissions of failed strategy. Many worry that shedding assets will cost a company the benefits of scale, cut into the advantages of analyst coverage, or even damage employee morale.

How to solve the cost crisis in health care: Much of the rapid escalation in health care costs can be attributed to the fact that providers have an almost complete lack of understanding of how much it costs to deliver patient care. Thus they lack the knowledge necessary to improve resource utilization, reduce delays, and eliminate activities that don’t improve outcomes.


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How India's best-known B-school got built : It is a fascinating story of institution building, of a coming together of “constellation of forces” of personalities. It is especially remarkable to see how various personalities got together to create and, thereafter, define the contours of their vision of a management educational institution.

MBA career promises: Behind the fancy job stats: Professional schools have had better years. Facing a brutal job market, underemployed graduates have begun to speak up, some even suing their former institutions, claiming they were duped into acquiring massive debt loads based on the promise of a secure, six figure- salary job.

Now Learn Entrepreneurship at Harvard : Harvard will launch its new entrepreneurship course, i-lab.  i-lab will open its doors to students, faculty and alumni of the entire university to “leverage Harvard’s people and resources in new and exciting ways.

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