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Consumer Foodservice Forecast Update: As fast food operators continue to branch out, expanding into new day parts and occasions, this quest for versatility has spread to categories like full-service as well, as recessionary mindsets have made consumers both more comfortable with informality and more conscious of value.
The Cost of Power Generation 2012: In the electricity generation business there are several sources of risk, most prominent is fuel cost risk. The cost of fossil fuels can change with time, and this affects the economics of power plants that require them to generate electricity. More dangerously, fossil fuel prices can become highly volatile at particular periods, and this is a major source of uncertainty.
CFD Market in India: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a tool which analyzes the flow, turbulence and pressure distribution of liquids and gases and their interaction with substances. CFD is the science of predicting fluid flow, mass transfer, chemical reactions and related phenomena. CFD is widely used in the Automotive, Industrial Equipment, Aerospace and Defense, Electronics and Semiconductor, and Energy industries for various applications such as thermal, acoustic, and air turbulence.
Smartphone Market in India: A Smartphone is a mobile device equipped with high performance computing technologies. Smartphones are a fusion of personal digital assistants (PDA) and feature phones. Smartphones have penetrated and got familiarized among consumers as a device for both professional use and a perfect time pass companion.
Strategic Analysis of Asia-Pacific Personal Care Active Ingredients Market: Active ingredients in personal care are ingredients that are responsible for a specific functionality in a cosmetic product. For example, Vitamin A is an anti-ageing ingredient in age-control creams. Greater awareness about active ingredients in personal care formulations leads to increased demand for product innovations.
How to Create Productive Partnerships With Universities: Too often, companies pursue collaboration with university researchers in an ad hoc, piecemeal manner. But by giving more thought to the relationship structure, companies can achieve better results. Universities are among the external partners that offer high promise, since they allow access to an enormous global pool of talent and skills.
Think Small to Land Big: Advising clients about their small businesses is not for the control freak, the timid or the egocentric. But for planners who venture into this terrain, working with entrepreneurs may provide some of the most satisfying experiences - financially and emotionally—of their careers.
Developing Global Leaders: Companies must cultivate leaders for global markets. This article outlines the five common myths about globalization is a good place to start.
Career mentoring for women: New Horizons/Expanded methods: Although women make up nearly half of the workforce in the United States, the number of women who hold senior management positions in large U.S. firms continues to be disproportionately low. This fact raises concerns about individual fairness and equality of opportunity. Herein, we demonstrate that the use of strong mentoring programs holds great promise as a way to increase the number of women in senior management roles.
How to Align your Brand Stories with Your Products: The role of stories and their influence on communication have been widely discussed, yet despite recent advances, the elements that constitute a good brand story and their alignment with product types remain unclear. This study uses four between-subjects experiments to test hypotheses pertaining to the appropriate stories for both search and experience products.
Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad designs formula for BRIC economies: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad has tied up with three other top-league business schools in Brazil, Russia and China to introduce a program called 'BRICS on BRICS' program.
Executive education on global B-schools radar: An increased supply of executive education programmes by the Ivy League institutes and other international B-schools, including Harvard Business School (HBS), Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Tuck School of Business, INSEAD, Oxford University’s Said Business School and Duke University, in Indian the market is set to add pressure on management institutes in the country.
Winning friends in new places: Social media enable people outside schools to “meet” and “follow” schools, professors, current students and alumni. This is potentially a powerful way to exchange ideas and schools, businesses and entrepreneurs are exploring it in search of benefits.
Call for more women on boards extends to US: US business schools are to be given the opportunity to get involved with an initiative spearheaded by the EU Commissioner of Justice, that aims to increase the number of women on company boards.
Should I do an MBA or not ?: Examining the impact of the MBA on the lives of MBA students and graduates. The Primary aim of this research is to provide a holistic and well balanced of MBA students perceptions on MBA degree.
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