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Automobiles - Two wheelers & Four Wheelers : The automobile industry in India provides direct and indirect employment to 13.1 million people. High levels of growth for the Indian automotive industry is expected in the coming years. The growth factors like - level of vehicle penetration, growth of the economy, demographic profile of the country, increasing wages and salaries coupled with the huge investments being made by the government in the infrastructure sector are all very favorable.
Consumer Electronic - Trends And Analysis : Tablets, smartphones and LCD TVs will remain the key driving forces of growth in consumer electronics in the near future. The continued shift of demand towards inexpensive models for mainstream consumers in emerging markets will drive down average selling prices, slowing value growth significantly in the long term.
Internet Access in India : The internet access sector consists of the total revenues generated by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from the provision of narrowband and broadband Internet connections through both consumer and corporate channels. The ISPs act as intermediaries between their customers and the telecommunication infrastructure that underpins the internet technology such as ADSL lines, servers, packet switching software etc.
New Product Development - The Quest for Differentiation Continues : Global foodservice is now more competitive than ever, and operators must continually reach new heights in search of differentiation. This is due to increasing competition and more discriminating customers, who now have a staggering array of dining options for every potential eating occasion.
Oil Crops in India : The oil crops market values the supply (consumption) of agriculture items such as soybeans, oil palm fruit, seed cotton, and rapeseed. The market volumes reflect supply in each country, calculated on the basis of production plus imports minus exports. Oil crops may be processed for use by the food and animal feed industries, as well as resold as a raw material to other processors.
Waving or Drowning : The world economy is yet to move towards strong and sustained growth after the onset of the great recession in 2008. Even if the crisis in the North is resolved, developing countries are likely to encounter a much less favorable global economic environment in the coming years than they did earlier.
How to Let 999 Flowers Die : When it comes to innovation, most executives place a high value on variation. They set up formalized systems that encourage employees to generate ideas and submit them to their superiors. Even firms without a formal mechanism frequently empower their people to experiment without fear of punishment for failure.
So, you want to be a business professor? : Career transitions within the same industry are challenging enough, but transitions across sectors are even more difficult. Underlying cultural and operational differences between industry and academia present significant hidden obstacles for practitioners seeking to become teachers in higher education.
The Elements of Leadership : Leadership is not merely a matter of possessing certain traits, such as tough-mindedness or bottom line thinking. Leadership requires mastery of a competency-based skill set that can be learned and practiced by anyone so inclined. The only limitations are personal preferences, convictions, determination, and situational constraints.
Seven Management Follies that Threaten Strategic Success : One of the most common yet tragic follies we have witnessed over the years is that of managers acting in willful ignorance of the events and trends taking place outside the ongoing activities of the firm. These managers remind us of the age-old cliché of a frog at the bottom of a well who thinks it’s the entire world.
Human Rights Lessons in Spotlight at B-Schools : NYU Stern School of Business is set to integrate human rights in its MBA curriculum and into the way the business school operates by launching the world’s first human rights centre at a business school this year. Some Indian business schools, however, seem to have beaten Stern to this, by broaching the subject through active discussions and graded courses with its students. Stern is open to collaborations with Indian and other overseas faculty members.
Babus, PSU Chiefs Learn the B-School Way of Steering Ship : Premier business schools of the country such as Indian Institutes of Management and Indian School of Business have a new set of visitors coming to sharpen their leadership skills —top rung officials of public sector companies and government departments. PSUs such as HAL, ONGC to IPS, IFS, and government sector organizations are investing heavily on leadership development to prepare themselves for future challenges in a fast changing economic and market environment.
B-school students relieved as top jobs come from emerging sectors : E-commerce and retail firms are bringing cheer in the pre-placement offer season in top B-schools even as institutes grapple to beat slowdown blues. Pre-placement offers are jobs offered to students by companies they had interned with over the summer
At Harvard Business School, Lessons in Leadership From Literature : For lessons on leadership, there are few better sources than literature. For the last 12 years, Harvard Business School students, who take a class on literature and leadership, have been scanning the pages of books, mostly fiction, for lessons to help them tackle business’s most challenging dilemmas.
Bangalore B-school to incubate start-ups : The Bangalore-based B-school, Global Institute for Corporate Education (GICE), has established a start-up incubation centre in collaboration with Bangalore Alpha Labs (BAL). To be called GICE Start-up Incubation Centre, it will both nurture young entrepreneurs and address one of their major concerns - human resources - by getting students of the B-school to intern with the start-ups during their two-year course.
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