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Cyber Security Market in India: Cyber Security means protecting information, equipment, devices, computer, computer resource, communication device and information stored there in from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction. The security market is on rise due to heightened adoption of cloud computing, networks, data centres and wireless communication devices.
Asia-Pacific Food and Bevarage Sector: The growing trend towards urbanization in emerging economies, particularly China and India, has led to the rise in the living standards, which has led to a greater expenditure on food. This growing trend offered a tremendous opportunity for the industry to produce value-added foods to meet consumer needs.
Gas Utilities in India: The gas utilities market covers all natural gas consumption, net of distribution or transmission losses, by end-users in the following categories: industrial (including use as a feedstock and auto generation), commercial and public-sector organization, residential consumer, electric power generation.
Glass Market – India: Glass as a product has diversified use with maximum usage in construction and packaging industry. Container glass forms the largest segment in the glass industry due to strong demand from the end user segment followed by flat glass and other glass segments. Liquor and beverage industry fuels the demand for container glass market.
India media- A new digital age: The government’s intent to enforce mandatory digitization, a stance backed by key stakeholders like broadcasters, direct-to-home (DTH) TV operators and multiple-system operators (MSOs), suggests that this transformational change for television in India is likely to materialize in the near term.
Consumer Decision Making on the Web: Recent empirical data on online shopping suggests that consumers have the potential to make better quality decisions while shopping on the web. Web-based stores offer immense choice and provide a virtual shopping experience that is more real-world than ever before, through the use interactive video, animation, flash, zoom, three-dimensional rotating images, and live online assistance.
Going Global How Smaller Enterprises Benefit from Strategic Alliances: This paper focuses on understanding three dimensions of international alliance formation by SMEs: the role of internal actors, planning/opportunity management, and organizational learning.
India’s National and Regional Innovation Systems: There is a need for continuous reforms in India’s infrastructure, innovation culture and dynamic leadership to sustain the growth of innovation. Also, there is a prerequisite need to study the changing innovation systems in India to identify the challenges and opportunities for innovation in order to foster India’s growth.
A Study of the Value and Impact of B2B E-Commerce: Web-enabled business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce enhances interorganizational coordination, resulting in transaction cost savings and competitive sourcing opportunities for the buyer organization. Organizations need to measure and determine the impact of Web-based systems on B2B processes and the value to the enterprise.
Managerial Motives in Mergers Propensity Score Matching Approach: Recent research finds that managers of public firms overpay for acquisitions relative to private equity acquirers and that the public acquirer ulterior motives explain the apparent overpayment. I find that, in sharp contrast to the existing literature.
Admissions Puzzle- Getting the Mix of B-School Students Right: Creating a business-school class isn't unlike casting a reality-television show or assembling guests for a dinner party: it's all about the mix. Admissions officers spend every fall and winter weighing how certain types of students may fare in a classroom and debating how many diverse student body can be added up.
The key steps necessary for creating a relevant business school: Most business schools need a new business model. Numerous writers in this column have argued about the unsustainability of the current model, which primarily rewards academic research while not generating sufficient revenue to fund that very expensive activity. Only a few wealthy schools are exempt from this dilemma.
How Executive Education Organizations Can Gain a Competitive Advantage: Executives up and down the corporate hierarchy as well as business owners and all types of professionals are increasingly recognizing the need to refine and expand their knowledge, perspectives and skills.
Graduates turn away from Wall St: More graduates are opting for careers outside investment banking as the pull of big bonuses is replaced by job insecurity in an industry struggling to adapt to regulatory change. MBA statistics show a steady decline in the number of graduates taking jobs at investment banks.
India's business school gets tough lesson in supply and demand: A boom in India's management sector that saw the number of business schools triple to almost 4,000 over the last five years has ended as students find expensive course are no guarantee a well paid job in a slowing economy.
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