INDUSTRY WATCH

Global Trends in Travel and Tourism : The financial crisis hit the USA hard and spilled over to the rest of the world, causing the longest recession since the Great Depression of 1929. The travel industry began to see signs of recovery in 2010 with returning business travellers.

The top 10 Pharmaceutical companies in BRIC : Brazil, China, Russia and India (BRIC) represent attractive new avenues for global pharmaceutical companies for expansion.

Medium & Heavy Trucks in India : Market size and segmentation data plus detailed analysis and company information for the Indian medium & heavy trucks industry.

Indian Hospitals : Indian healthcare industry is poised to double to US$125bn by 2015, driven by a combination of ageing population, growing lifestyle diseases, increasing ability to afford quality healthcare and growing medical insurance penetration.


B-SCHOOL INFOWATCH

Chinese students flock to U.S. business schools : Despite historical reservations toward Western business culture, there has been a surge in applications to US business schools from China. And the influx has just begun.

VCs to be trained at B schools : Vice-chancellors of State-funded universities will soon undergo training at the Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore (IIM-B), to hone their skills and keep abreast with the changing education scenario.

Q&A: Ajit Rangnekar, Dean, Indian School of Business: : As the Indian School of Business (ISB) at Hyderabad completes a decade of its existence, ISB Dean Ajit Rangnekar explains to Kalpana Pathak how B-schools in Singapore are a big challenge in terms of faculty recruitment and how it hurts to be blacklisted by the All India Council of Technical Education.

Indian education institutions wooing PIOs to return : A weak Western economy has raised the hopes of top Indian institutions scouting to fill faculty positions.

ARTICLE ALERT

From strategy to tactics : Building, implementing, and managing brand equity in business markets: Industrial marketers have long argued that brands play little role in the decision making process. Several macro-level changes have occurred challenging these notions, some of which are reviewed.

Higher education’s new competitive landscape : Many years from now, when we are living America’s future and not just thinking about how to create it, we may recall the current environment with something less than fondness.

The CEO’s guide to corporate finance : Four principles can help you make great financial decisions— even when the CFO is not in the room.

Core competencies for leading today’s workforce : A massive changing of the guard in the workforce has millennials taking center stage in the organisational agenda.

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