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India- Infrastructure Report: Proliferating domestic and offshore
infrastructure funds target the Indian infrastructure market, driven by strong
demand from the transport, power, urban infrastructure and irrigation segments.
Government showing increasing willingness to carry out pro-business reforms
(e.g. land acquisition bill, delinking forest with environmental clearances).
Online Travel Market in India: Ease of communication and convenience has
motivated people to switch to the online mode. The online travel segment drives
the e-Commerce market and mainly comprises of ticket booking, hotel
accommodation and packaged tours.
Oil & Gas: Breaking Free: Energy independence for India seems to little
farfetched right now, which can be targeted to reach through a domestic E&P
boost by: (a) remunerative / market-linked pricing, and (b) stable fiscal regime
/ PSC to attract investment, coupled with fast tracking of administrative
timelines. apart from boosting domestic E&P should be towards developing (a)
unconventional hydrocarbons, (b) renewable energy sources, (c) monetizing
discovered gas, and (d) aggressively acquiring overseas reserves.
Property Sector in Asia-Pacific: In present scenario developers and
occupiers are focusing on sustainable buildings that use less energy and reduce
their environmental footprint. Countries like Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam
are increasingly viable options for property market investment. The Asia-Pacific
property market should continue to grow in 2014, strengthened by steady economic
growth from Japan and China.
2014 Asia-Pacific Medical Devices Outlook: The luxury vehicle market in
India will be growing in the metro cities, where the wealth accumulation has
increased gradually. With the rising number of HNWIs, the introduction of new
models (B Class), and the local assembly of several models, the market for
luxury vehicles will remain strong in India.
Deals That Transform Companies: As capital remains cheap and competition
increases, more and more corporate finance strategists are willing to take on
transformational deals. Unlike absorption deals, in which companies acquire
businesses that complement their existing operations, transformational deals
involve acquiring new markets, channels, products, or processes in a way that
requires significant operational integration. In fact, successful integration is
key to realizing the potential value of these deals.
Mining Marketing Meaning from Online Chatter: Online chatter, or
user-generated content, constitutes an excellent emerging source for marketers
to mine meaning at a high temporal frequency. This meaning can be distilled by
extracting key latent dimensions of consumer satisfaction about the quality of
brands.
Managing Strategic Change - The Duality of CEO Personality: Corporate
social commitment and corporate environmental commitment are often combined
under the general rubric of corporate social responsibility. Although the two
sets of activities are similar, they are also very different. Both CSC and CEC
respond to issues raised by stakeholders, but CEC tends to be more “technical”.
This characteristic demands that CEC fit with the organization, which exposes
greater economic opportunities than CSC.
Sustainability in the Boardroom: One surprising role of Nike’s committee
is to provide support for innovation. More and more companies recognize
importance of corporate responsibility to their long-term success--and yet the
matter gets short shrift in most boardrooms, consistently ranking at the bottom
of some two dozen possible priorities.
The role of physical distribution services as determinants of product returns
in Internet retailing : Students and parents share many attitudes about
online education, but their needs have grown more varied and demanding than ever
before. Institutions that fail to respond to these shifts risk losing relevance
and overall market share. Those that adapt will tap into new sources of growth
and innovation.
The War for Talent: From
Oxford’s quads to Harvard Yard and many a steel and glass palace of higher
education in between, exams are giving way to holidays. As students consider
life after graduation, universities are facing questions about their own future.
The higher-education model of lecturing, cramming and examination has barely
changed for centuries. Now, three disruptive waves are threatening to upend
established ways of teaching and learning.
Business schools broaden their horizons:
In the days when most students left campus to take up traditional positions in
large corporations, the core curriculum line-up made sense. However, students
now seek jobs from a far wider range of postgraduate options, from start-ups to
healthcare systems and social enterprises.
Confidence matters as much as competence:
The women who are entering the corporate workforce today are skilled and
business savvy. Yet to rise to the ranks of the C-suite, confidence matters as
much as competence. Encouraging more women to pursue MBAs would not only
strengthen the skills and confidence they need to succeed, but it would allow
corporations to tap into a larger and more diversified talent pool of future
business leaders. Schools must also do their part to attract women.
Business Schools Aren't Producing Ethical Graduates:
You can’t accuse them of not trying. Business schools make efforts to teach
students to carry ethical lessons from their MBA program into the working world
and to behave ethically as professionals. Most top schools include ethics
courses or build ethics-related segments into classes on global management and
leadership. Here are three actions all business schools can take to improve
ethics education.
An opportunity for innovation rather than a challenge:
Business schools have a key role to play in this, but few have translated the
implications of global sustainability into strategic research and education
programmes. Business schools excel at providing executives with the
methodologies to induce and manage innovation and sustainability represents an
opportunity for them as well as for businesses.
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