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Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana passes away

Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana passes away

Rediff.com12 Nov 2011

Pioneering Indian American biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for medicine, has died of natural causes in Concord, Massachusetts. Khorana, 89, who was Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Alfred P Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry emeritus, died earlier this week. He won the Nobel Prize in 1968, sharing it with two others, for unravelling the nucleotide sequence of RNA and deciphering the genetic code.

Lessons for bosses who silence their colleagues

Lessons for bosses who silence their colleagues

Rediff.com13 Mar 2015

Bosses have played a stellar role in stifling the voice of their junior colleagues.

Professional manager, businessman...

Professional manager, businessman...

Rediff.com17 Oct 2017

Ajit Balakrishnan on mapping the Business Serengeti.

Rescuing a threatened species -- the Manager

Rescuing a threatened species -- the Manager

Rediff.com27 Jan 2015

In leading companies in Information Age industries, the word "manager" is taking on a pejorative meaning -- something like "zamindar" -- a man who lived off other people's work and did no work himself, says Ajit Balakrishnan.