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Global Media and Entertainment Video Transcoding Market: This research service provides a detailed Market Engineering analysis of the global M&E video transcoders market. The service ranks and explains market drivers and restraints. It also provides forecasts for revenue and unit shipments. The service outlines current distribution channels in addition to forecasting and analyzing market demand.
Womenswear in India: The womenswear market comprises: women's active wear, casual wear, essentials, formalwear, formalwear-occasion and outerwear. The market’s value is calculated at retail selling price (RSP). Sales through clothing, footwear and accessories retailers include sales through sportswear retailers. Sales through discount and variety stores include sales through general merchandise stores. All currency conversions are calculated at constant average 2011 exchange rates
Global Telecare: Healthcare for The Digital Age: It`s defines telecare as the use of mobile and internet technology to provide clinical care and non-clinical services such as health education, disease surveillance and drug monitoring. It is our view that a combination of factors - including the continued growth in demand for and delivery of healthcare, the continued growth in mobile and broadband subscribers and penetration rates and the growing sophistication of the infrastructure of the communication networks.
Material Handling Equipment Market in India: This report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the Material Handling Equipment market in India for the period 2011–2015. It also presents the vendor landscape and a corresponding detailed analysis of the top three vendors in the Material Handling Equipment market in India.
Global Microfluidic Devices Market in the Healthcare Industry: Microfluidics is the technology that controls the behavior and flow of liquids or gases typically measured in nanoliters and picoliters in a miniaturized system. The Global Microfluidic Devices market in the Healthcare Industry is growing at a rapid pace. The majority of the growth of the market comes from the Americas, followed by the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
Creating Global Brand Names: The Use of Sound Symbolism : Creating meaningful brand names for international markets can be particularly challenging because translation may distort intended meaning. To mitigate this issue, marketers can imbue meaning into a brand name with sound symbolism, which refers to the direct linkage between sound and meaning.
Engaging diasporas as international entrepreneurs in developing countries: In search of determinants: Diaspora has been increasingly recognized by practitioners and scholars as an important factor of development in developing economies. Through their remittances and expertise, diaspora members have become an important source of foreign direct investment and managerial capabilities. This study explores a theoretical foundation of the diaspora entrepreneurship. The study suggests that diaspora international entrepreneurship depends on the level of altruistic motivation, need of social recognition, entrepreneurial opportunities, friendliness and receptivity of the home country.
Institutions, entrepreneurs, and communities: A special issue on entrepreneurship: This Issue's aim is to demonstrate that drawing on sociological research can further enrich entrepreneurship studies of institutions, entrepreneurs, and communities. We develop an organizing framework for our ten Special Issue papers that categorizes the pieces by community level and type, observed changes, form of entrepreneurial actor, institutional and entrepreneurial concepts and processes, and integrative methodologies.
How do Young Firms Manage Product Portfolio Complexity? The Role of Absorptive Capacity and Ambidexterity: Building a complex portfolio of products can be beneficial for young firms due to increased sales growth and competitiveness. Yet, the benefits from product portfolio complexity (PPC) are often outweighed by rising costs, leading to an inverted U-shaped relationship between PPC and performance.
Implicit attitudes and digital piracy: An argument for the importance of unconscious processes is emerging across social science literatures. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of implicit attitudes on the formation of digital piracy desires and behavioral intentions. If implicit attitudes are found to contribute to consumer digital piracy intentions, then marketers face an additional challenge in developing effective strategies and appeals designed to attenuate the practice.
A one-year posting, three expats and an MBA: Accompanying your spouse on an overseas posting can leave you with time on your hands. But one group of women has decided to put this unexpected period of leisure to good use and have enrolled on an MBA programme. While their husbands work, Olutosin Bakare, Safietou Seydi Ep Wane and Fairmond Mbungela, are learning the intricacies of operations management, leadership and organizational behavior at the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London.
CAT 2012: Mumbai tops in 99 percentile score: Mumbai has the highest 99 percentile scorers (180) among all the other metros in the CAT 2012 results. This is followed by followed by Delhi (168), Bangalore (157), Hyderabad (105), Kolkata (92) and Chennai (85). A total of 1.9 lakh candidates appeared. Ten students got 100 percentile scores, one of them is studying science at Delhi University and the remaining belong to the engineering discipline. Eight of these students are from IITs.
Business schools face a challenging future: Tuition-based universities are doing something counterintuitive: competing with each other to deliver their content online and for free. Last year Stanford University offered free courses on machine learning, database systems and artificial intelligence to more than 100,000 students. Many other professors are also making their material available online.
Destructive storm offers constructive lessons: When it comes to MBA courses and electives, issues such as energy and climate risk have been moving up the agenda recently. Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, for example, electives include a concentration on energy and environment. At Dartmouth College’s Tuck School, an elective, business and climate change, includes content on the implications of energy-related legislation, such as carbon taxes and renewable energy mandates.
Harvard's Nitin Nohria: B-school dean of the year: As dean of the world's most powerful and influential business school, the 50-year-old Nohria has unflinchingly led the school into a new brave era. Nohria has also focused on making HBS more international. The school's seven research centers in have been used to help faculty do more global research and to globalize the MBA curriculum. In the last year, 50% of the roughly 250 case studies written at Harvard have been global.
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