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Exploring Paradigm Shifts in Global Beauty: Despite economic uncertainty the beauty industry remains largely positive. The pursuit of luxury has been sustained, with premium sales rebounding strongly. Innovation is shifting towards a more holistic approach to product benefits and exploring completely novel concepts. Greater interest in sustainability, salon quality features and high-tech efficacy has created new scope for product development, while marketers are increasingly exploiting the digital space to enrich the brand experience.
Retailing Trends in consumer health: Consumer health retailers are continuously innovating in an effort to adapt to new regulatory policies, demographic preferences, technological developments and public health influences. Health and wellness trends are holding a great deal of sway over everything from store formats to marketing strategies. Younger consumers seek more internet and mobile shopping options, while ageing ones require different services. Companies are finding creative ways to personalise the retailing experience.
Machine Tool Market in India: The Machine Tool market in India is one of the more steadily growing engineering markets in the country. The major revenue contribution to the Machine Tool market in India comes from the southern parts of the country, followed by the western part. The market is expected to witness an improvement in its growth rate and post a CAGR of 14.95 percent during the period 2012–2016.
Ceramic Tiles Market: The Ceramic Tile Market in India is showing remarkable growth owing to the booming real estate sector along with the rising disposable income of the consumers. Consumers are becoming style conscious and this aesthetic sense of the consumers is leading to its increased consumption.
Consumer Payments 2013: Trends, Developments, and Prospects : The most developed regions of North America and Western Europe accounted for 56% of the total US$13.8 trillion in card payment volume in 2012. While the majority of future payment growth is expected to come from emerging markets.
Corporate Marketing Leaders: the Key Attributes : In their boundary-spanning role, marketing managers are often charged with managing cross-functional teams and collaborative work groups. Although this inter functional coordination is key to organizational performance many marketing managers run into resistance owing to leadership styles and stereotypes held about other functional departments.
Why Do Consumers Adopt Online Channel? An Empirical Investigation of Two Channel Extension Mechanisms: As increasingly more organizations transit from a brick-and-mortar into a brick-and-click organization, consumers' embracing the new online channel is becoming critical to the success of these organizations. Although consumers' online channel adoption behavior has recently received a lot of attention, there still lacks a systematic investigation into the internal mechanism of consumers' channel adoption behaviors.
The secret to true service innovation: The secret to true service innovation lies in shifting focus away from the service solution back to the customer. Rather than asking, ‘‘How are we doing?’’ managers must ask, ‘‘How is the customer doing?’’ For far too many businesses, service innovation means making incremental improvements to existing services. While a focus on improving current services certainly has its place, we indicate that this has constrained firms’ innovation capabilities by limiting new ideas.
Increasing the Meaning Quotient of Work: Musicians talk about being “in the groove,” sportsmen about being “in the zone.” Can employees in the workplace experience similar performance peaks and, if so, what can top management do to encourage the mental state that brings them about?
Culture, small retail stores, and Indian consumer preferences: A moderating role of demographics: Growth in the Indian retail industry in the last decade has attracted interest from both academicians and retail practitioners. It is understood that economic factors like rising income, consumption levels, economic growth, and large middle class segment have contributed toward the growth of organized retail in India. This study examines Indian consumers’ preference to shop from small retail stores with respect to cultural- and store-related factors.
More Women Set to Storm into IIMs: Companies looking to muster their gender diversity scores are likely to find happy hunting when they walk into IIM campuses in placement season 2015. Early data trickling in from IIMs, shows the institutes are in an overdrive to admit more female students in the current 2013-15 batch. The top three IIMs in Ahmadabad, Bangalore and Kolkata have together shortlisted 989 woman candidates for a total of 1,272 available seats.
US business schools count the cash for social initiatives: Times may be tough but US business schools Chicago Booth and the Eccles school at the University of Utah are proving that they can raise funds even in a difficult economic climate - if it is for a good cause.
Chicago Booth Executive MBA gets a facelift: Chicago Booth is revamping its Executive MBA programme - an MBA for senior working managers - to include additional courses and overseas study. The Chicago EMBA, arguably the oldest EMBA in the world, is taught on the school’s three campuses in Chicago, London and Singapore. Beginning with the matriculating class of 2013, all students will study overseas for five weeks instead of four.
Hong Kong University to give women a helping hand: Hong Kong University has teamed up with executive search firm Harvey Nash to develop a certificate programme to prepare women managers in Asia for appointment to the corporate board. The Women’s Directorship Programme, run by HKU’s executive education division, will comprise five modules, taught over two three-day sessions in April and June 2013. The programme will cover topics such as strategy, ethics and compliance, remuneration and conflict resolution.
Global Business 2020: Paving the Way for India”- Results of Recent Survey of Indian B-School Students: TCS in collaboration with the Association of Management Consulting Firms (AMCF) has released survey results about the perception of the consulting profession among Indian business school students. According to the survey carried out by TCS’ Global Consulting Practice, a majority of the respondents across age groups, gender, and with different levels of experience want to pursue a career in consulting.
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