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Mobile Wallet Market in India : Mobile wallets are electronic
accounts that can be maintained on cellphones. They help account holders make
bill payments or online purchases on the go. They are a revolutionary trend in
the Digital Payments industry and are based on NFC technology. The increased
adoption of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile technology has changed the
way customers make payments. Recently, the growth of the Mobile Wallet market in
India has been stimulated by highly competitive Telecom market.
India: Metals Report : Indian auto component industry is emerging as a
global manufacturing hub for auto jay component manufacturers and is one of the
front runners for grabbing the global auto component outsourcing market,
estimated to be worth US$700bn by 2015. The value in sourcing auto components
from India includes low labour cost, raw material availability, technically
skilled manpower and quality assurance.
Household Products in Asia-Pacific : Asia-Pacific market has a wide array
of household products ranging from air fresheners to various cleaning & washing
products. Paper product is the largest segment of the household products market
in Asia-Pacific, followed by textile washing products market. Leading players
such as Procter & Gamble, Unilever, S.C. Johnson & Son, and the Kao Corporation
has occupied the Asian household products market. Producers need various retail
chains to distribute their products widely.
Project Logistics Market – India : Project logistics is one of the
growing sectors in India that has attracted a number of players. Logistics
primarily deals in transportation and storage operations and is significantly
aided by value added service. Project logistics falls under the temporary
logistics segment of network logistics. Project logistics service is applicable
for vast array of industries that require temporary handling of goods. Growing
investments key sectors of the economy is driving the project logistics market
in India.
The Indian Commercial Vehicles Industry : Commercial vehicles (CVs) are
an important source of transportation of both goods and passengers. The Indian
CV industry is closely linked to the prospects for road transportation in the
country. Road transport has emerged as the dominant segment in India’s
transportation sector and thus increasing the growth prospects for commercial
vehicles too.
Proven Paths to Innovation Success : Success of corporate R&D is on every C-suite agenda. Yet wide
disparities persist in how well innovation investments actually pay off. R&D is
often seen as black box, where large sums of money go-in innovative products and
services only sometimes come out. One of aims of Global Innovation 1000 study,
our annual analysis of R&D spending, has been to demystify process-and to find
universal principles that can be applied by any company, in any industry.
Managing Ambiguity in Strategic Alliances : Alliances have become a core
component of many firms' strategy, but they are often characterized by a high
level of instability that can lead to failure. Ambiguity is an intrinsic aspect
of strategic alliances and effective management of it determines how well the
partners are able to make the alliance work. Alliances are subject to three
types of ambiguity-partner, interaction, and evaluative-that are important at
different stages of alliance evolution.
The Role of Chief Marketing Officers for Venture Capital Funding : Research on new ventures has indicated that poorly conducted
marketing is among main reasons for new venture failure. To acquire urgently
needed initial funding, new ventures strive to conform to investors’
expectations of appropriate marketing capabilities because these capabilities
may endow them with legitimacy in eyes of potential investors. Drawing on
organizational legitimacy and human resource theory, the authors argue that the
characteristics of the chief marketing officer may endow new ventures with
marketing legitimacy.
Home Health Care in India: In Search of the Right Business Model : Home-based health care in
India is gaining traction and is poised for transformation. Once an unorganized
and fragmented sector, it is fast catching attention of entrepreneurs and
investors and becoming an organized, technology-led industry with standards and
protocols. Recent paper by consulting firm Pacific Bridge Medical notes
that-global home health care market, which includes devices, products and
services, was worth almost $215-billion in 2013 and is projected to grow at
8%-per annum until 2020.
Corporate Innovations and Mergers and Acquisitions : Using large and unique patent-merger data set over period
1984-2006, Authors show that companies with large patent portfolios and low R&D
expenses are acquirers, while companies with high R&D expenses and slow growth
in patent output are targets. Technological overlap between firm-pairs has
positive effect on transaction incidence, and this effect is reduced for firm
pairs that overlap in product-markets. Authors show that acquirers with prior
technological linkage to their target-firms produce more patents afterwards.
For women MBA students, it's getting better : Much has been said about MBA programs’ unfriendliness toward women, but evidence
suggests female students voices’ are gradually being heard and MBA programs are
working to make their female students' experiences better. Business schools are
getting better for women. But, much like corporate America, they still have a
long way to go.
Going abroad may not help find jobs, staying in India could : Going abroad to study and receive a foreign degree may not assure a job back in
India as companies are cutting down their hiring of foreign degree holders
according to a study by the British Council. The survey, carried out across 200
Indian and foreign companies to understand the employability potential of Indian
students, has said that less than 13% of the companies actively seek to hire
students with foreign degrees.
Now, IITs to teach entrepreneurship : IITs have always produced a steady stream of entrepreneurs, including those
behind celebrated companies and many IITs also have thriving incubation cells
that seek to spawn such entrepreneurs. Now, more IITs are gearing up to teach
entrepreneurship in the classroom.
Which Universities Produce The Most Billionaires? : Twenty-five billionaires obtained their bachelor’s degrees from the University
of Pennsylvania, making it the top university in the world in terms of number of
billionaire undergraduate alumni, according to this year’s Wealth-X and UBS
Billionaire Census. Among those billionaires who hold a tertiary-level degree,
42% graduated with a bachelor’s degree, 26% have a master’s degree, 21% finished
their MBA, and 11% attained a PhD. Mumbai University has produced more
billionaires than NYU, MIT.
Wharton’s New Dean Gets Down to Business : Geoffrey Garrett had been dean of the business school at Australia’s University
of New South Wales for just over a year when the University of Pennsylvania’s
Wharton School offered him its top job, an invitation he says was “unexpected.”
He takes the helm as business schools are becoming more global in both their
outlook and enrollment.
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