Harvard Business School's Indian-origin dean Nitin Nohria has said he is keen on changing the perception that business schools are "about credentials and connections" at a time when "trust in business leaders is close to an all-time low".
India has famously been a one-sport country, with sponsors and audiences obsessed with cricket. Robust economic growth and greater exposure, however, have recently encouraged commercial and consumer interest in sports from soccer to Formula One motor racing and the Olympics.
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In a study titled Internet's New Billion, the Boston Consulting Group said Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia will have more than 1.2 billion Internet users by 2015 -- well over three times the number of Internet users in Japan and the US combined. In 2009, the BRICI countries had some 610 million Internet users.
In a study titled Internet's New Billion, the Boston Consulting Group said Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia will have more than 1.2 billion Internet users by 2015 -- well over three times the number of Internet users in Japan and the US combined. In 2009, the BRICI countries had some 610 million Internet users.
Three Pakistanis were arrested on Thursday in the US after authorities conducted raids on new locations in the Northeast in connection with the failed Times Square car bombing, federal investigators have said. The searches were carried out in Long Island, the Boston suburbs and New Jersey.
Electronic book readers and tablet PCs, known to be niche products for technology geeks, are set to become mass-market devices in this decade, a survey by the Boston Consulting Group has said.
Ponda is currently director of the firm's tax department, which is among the six finalist law firms nationwide for Chambers USA Awards for Excellence 2010 in Taxation Law.
Max India founder and chairman Analjit Singh is in talks with four foreign universities to set up a medical college in the country.
China has the third largest number of dollar millionaires in the world, after the United States and Japan, with the number touching 6.70 lakh (670,000) in 2009, an increase of 60 per cent compared to the previous year.
"Kashmir mein naee hava bah rahee hai (New winds are blowing in Kashmir) and we will all build a new Kashmir together that will be for everyone," he told the delegation.
Besides undertaking the routine work, Ahluwalia entrusted the task of revamping the Commission to new member Arun Maira, formerly with the Boston Consultancy Group. "We cannot work is silos. We need better lateral inputs," Ahluwalia had said at a recent internal meeting of the commission.
What's next for the free-telephony service, en route from Luxembourg to Redmond. Building IP telephony into phones is cool, but the real impact would be in Miscrosoft's business software.
A mix of around 150 variations in DNA sequence could act as an effective predictor of whether a person has the genetic artillery to live up to 100 years, researchers have found.
India's Internet economy has two choices: An immediate $30 billion Sale-and-Leaseback or a $3 trillion value harvesting over decades, observes Vibhu Arya.
The brilliant Indian boy star of the musical The Jungle Book, currently playing in Chicago, is being applauded for his rare talent.
Besides Parikh, Singh sent letters of appreciation to V L Chopra, B Mungekar and Anwarul Hoda indicating that they may not find a place in the reconstituted body.
Nikita Mathur started volunteering for bone marrow donation drives even before she left high school. Now as she gets ready for college, the teenager is looking forward to networking with more South Asians to fuel her efforts.
A computer programmer, who knew Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad, is among the three Pakistani men arrested during investigations into the failed plot. The three men were picked up on Thursday in a series of raids in the Boston suburbs, on New York's Long Island and in New Jersey, as the Federal Bureau of Investigation followed the money trail in the failed attack.
Anand Raghuraman, partner, The Boston Consulting Group, said it is extremely tough to make money on small food and grocery stores.
Patel, 55, who took over as the 24th Governor of the central bank on September 5, 2016, had the shortest tenure since 1992.
The report on Mutual Funds Investments released by Research and analytics firm, Boston Analytics, suggests investors are holding back from putting their money in mutual funds because of their perceived high risk and a lack of information on how mutual funds work.
People are taking to Twitter to protest peacefully, via a movement called #TwitterBlackout. They are changing their profile pictures to a blank black square. Some of them are also tweeting hopeful messages of support to the people that feel particularly vulnerable now that Trump, whose campaign was marked by divisive rhetoric, has won the White House.
With a pay packet of $84.5 million, software major Oracle's Larry Ellison has emerged as the highest paid CEO in the US last year
Does the 21st century indeed belong to the Asian nations?
According to the research, consumers are willing to spend small monthly sums to receive news on their personal computers and mobile devices.
That's some stylish way to travel!
The Los Angles Lakers rallied from a big early deficit to win their second successive NBA championship with a cliff-hanging 83-79 Game Seven victory over the Boston Celtics on Thursday.
'My father never saw any success for me. 'When I meet him in the next world, I will proudly say that I didn't buy houses and cars, but I made some art that will hopefully stand the test of time.'
Global wealth staged a remarkable comeback in 2009, increasing by 11.5 percent to $111.5 trillion, just short of the year-end peak set in 2007.
Notwithstanding their increasing economic power, women are made to feel underserved and ignored by companies they are associated with, said a global study by the Boston Consulting Group.
Reliance Industries has been named as the world's fifth biggest 'sustainable value creator' globally in terms of investor returns over a decade.
The six-member government-appointed board of scandal-hit Satyam Computer Services today appointed investment banks Goldman Sachs and Avendus to explore various strategic options for the company, which include identifying strategic investors and obtaining expressions of interest from them in a fair and transparent manner.
Companies are cutting back on recruitment and training in their bid to cut costs and cope with the current economic slowdown.
The BCG analysis shows Lupin gave an annualised average TSR of 29.9 per cent, ahead of the 18.4 per cent of Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical, the world's largest generics maker. Teva is next on the list. Another Indian generic maker, Glenmark, occupies third position, with an 18 per cent TSR to its investors.
Reader Radhakrishna Gowrishankara spotted Mahesh Bhupathi and Sitaram Sudarwa at the US Open and sent us these photographs.
The new application uses the HealthMap technology, an online resource that collects, filters, maps and disseminates information about emerging infectious diseases, and provides a new, contextualised view of a user's specific location.
In a shocking incident, two Muslim women were escorted off of a plane by the police after a cabin crew member accused them of "staring" at her.
Steve Finn helped England dominate Australia in another Ashes Test at Edgbaston on Friday to take a 2-1 series lead. A day later, there were celebrations across China as Beijing won the rights to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. And, on Sunday, Premier League club Arsenal finally won bragging rights after beating Chelsea 1-0 to clinch the Community Shield to kick-start their season on a positive note. Rediff.com has all this and a lot more action from the week gone by, snapped right here!
Ram Shriram, founding investor and board member of Google, thinks the Indian government should focus on better Internet access to create a conducive business environment.
