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Indian Consumer Goods Firms Go Shopping
“It is very early days to tell whether these acquisitions are a success or not,”
Why Indian Business Books Bomb
Indian business books about Indian businesses typically describe idiosyncratic conditions that apply only to India, which is not very useful as learning material for conducting business in developed economies.
Romancing the Dollar
Chidambaram has ushered in a new wave of reforms and some of the anti-FDI moves of his predecessor — and now president Pranab Mukherjee — have been watered down.
Family Physicians Make a Comback in India
The primary health care sector in India is around $39 billion in size but is highly fragmented.
India's Demographic Dividend
Half a century ago, there was only one answer to the question of India’s growing population. In a 1967 book titled Famine 1975!:
Signal & The Noise
The consumer insights that come from analytics give a competitive advantage to firms that use them strategically.
Why America is Losing the Race for Talent
"Brain drain is a European phenomenon. It’s an Indian phenomenon. It’s a Chinese phenomenon. It’s not an American thing. We don’t have brain drain in America."
Affordable Housing in India
Whatever the definition of affordable housing, no one disputes that there is a huge shortage in this segment. A report by global property management firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) points out that according to MHUPA, the shortage of urban housing in India at the end of the 10th Five-Year Plan (2002-2007) was around 27.1 million dwellings to serve 66.3 million households.
Restaurant Sites Target Scale
“Indians are a lazy bunch,” laughs Goyal. “So we wanted to create something very close to their physical world. While menupages.com has menus in [a] standardized format, we scanned the actual menu cards and then put them up.”
Have Global E-Tailers Missed the Bus in India?
India's base of unique Internet users has grown rapidly, reaching 120 million and expected to expand to more than 350 million by 2015. India’s unique mobile subscriber base is 600 million.
Moving to a Digital Future
“When we launched Smartclass in 2004 as the first-ever digital classroom program, it was an uphill task convincing schools to adopt it. These schools had not witnessed any change in a century.... It is a completely different scenario now. Private schools across India today see (technology) as an imperative. A digital classroom is set to become the bare-minimum teaching accessory in schools, just like a blackboard is today.”
Branding a Homemade Indian Staple
Global Yogurt Franchises Attempt to Brand a Homemade Indian Staple
B-School for Rural Indian Women
The women who have been educated at MDBS have little in common with the well-heeled students in MBA programs around the world. They are an eclectic mix of ages ranging from 19 to 50. They include a potter, a spice and noodle maker, a seamstress, a goat and sheep herder, a farmer, a homemaker and a bangle vendor.
Off-Shoring As a Value-Creator
So far, Indian firms have been below the radar. But now that they are bigger, and also visible thanks to the politicians going after them, the lawyers are moving in.
Socio-cultural Changes Cheer India’s Wine Market
Spread over three days and across sprawling grounds, the wine festival offered Bangaloreans an opportunity to understand the basics of wine, varietals, wine tasting and food pairing. There was also grape stomping, musical concerts, a fashion show, a display of vintage automobiles, a flea market and food stalls.
Can Telemedicine Alleviate India’s Health Care Problems
“There’s a huge, unmet health care need in our rural hinterlands. The challenge is to make health care affordable for the masses....”
India’s Education Dividend
Education can be the only leveler. It is the means to bridge the huge divide that exists between religious groups, castes and regions.
Aseema’s Value-Driven Education
Education can be the only leveler. It is the means to bridge the huge divide between religious groups, castes and regions.
