Nicholas Carr, a leading tech critic and former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, believes that whatever the ultimate outcome of the transaction, the eagerness of Microsoft to launch such a bid "tells us a lot about the changing shape of business on the Internet and how competition is likely to play out in the future."
Consulting Conclave at Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi
In just three years the online real estate portal has managed to raise about Rs 270 crore.
Going by the provisions of the new company law, the responsibility and accountability equation for independent directors has seen a major change.
Pankaj Ghemawat is dismissive of the obsession with growth and scale economies -- he calls them 'dinosaur economics.' He would be much happier if companies considered all components of economic value while assessing cross-border alternatives.
An Indian Institute of Technology-Chennai (IIT) alumnus has come up with instructions on how to make a flying carpet, just like the one in Walt Disney's creation 'The Arabian Nights'.
After Harvard Business School and Tuck School of Business, India's developing corporate scenario has now attracted France-based ESCP-EAP European School of Management to hold executive education programmes for corporates in India.
According to party sources, the Congress' hopes to regain power are pinned on the first and third phases of the election. The first phase (89 assembly segments) will cover the entire southern Karnataka along with Bangalore and Mysore. In the third phase, 69 constituencies of the northern part will go to polls.
When it comes to optimal nutrition, men and women have different considerations.
No Indian varsities, including the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology, figure among world's top 200 universities this year while six Chinese universities were listed, signalling the rapid stride the Communist giant is making in higher education. Harvard University tops the league table followed by Cambridge and Oxford at second and third positions respectively. The top 10 universities are all either in the United States or the United Kingdom, a survey has found.
China fears Dalai Lama would steal Chinese President Hu Jintao's thunder if invited for the Beijing Olympics.
With the introduction of CTT, commodity players raise their doubts about the fledgling futures market.
The unpredictability is seen in the number of questions, the number of sections, the marking scheme, negative marking, duration of the test and most importantly in the composition of the test.
The "pyramid" component stems from the idea that there should be a main governing thought for the communication.
From a dark horse in the Democrat race to the first black US presidential candidate from a major party, Barack Obama has had a meteoric rise from political obscurity to be at a sniffing distance of the White House.
People close to the erstwhile royal family underline that Jyotiraditya Scindia is neither as accessible nor as unpretentious as his father.
For Duflo and Banerjee, an important part of their work has been ensuring that the agency of the "beneficiaries" -- usually, in developing countries like India, poorer individuals -- is put at the centre of any policy design. This is a crucial way in which experimental results are often better than large scale data-based inference, says Mihir S Sharma.
This year's Laureates have shown how the problem of global poverty can be tackled by breaking it down into a number of smaller - but more precise - questions at individual or group levels, he Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
Progress on the steps taken by Governor Shaktikanta Das' predecessor Urjit Patel to restore financial system integrity will be a key thing to assess any damage to the institution, Subramanian said.
Actor Ajay Naidu completed his first production Ashes which he also directed. You hear him on the audio of the much acclaimed and bestselling Jhumpa Lahiri's collection of stories, Unaccustomed Earth
Indian American Harvard Medical School student Sachin Jain looks beyond boundaries of direct service.
Online learning platforms have become go-to places for those suffocated by the current curbs on movement.
Divya Narendra, along with two other former Harvard students, founders of ConnectU, brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, had sued Facebook, the fast-growing social networking site. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. A Facebook spokeswoman said the company would not comment on legal matters.
Learn how you can find a way to work more efficiently with your supervisor.
Meet Shirish Nadkarni, co-founder and CEO of Livemocha.com.
Just find out whether your potential life partner smokes or not, for a new study has revealed that being married to a smoker can significantly raise your risk of a stroke.Previous studies have indicated the dangers of stroke to smokers, but till now had not explored the high risk from passive smoking.Now a team at Harvard University has found that even if one does not smoke, tying the knot with a smoker increases the chance of suffering a heart stroke by up to 72 per cent.
The Tata Group, one of India's largest business houses, has made summer internship offers to 19 students of five leading US business schools this year
Planet hunters have spotted more than 200 planets beyond the solar system, but the vast majority are hot, Jupiter-sized planets that will dwarf Earth and are almost certainly lifeless.
"Our study suggests a new method for identifying stress-induced episodes and also reveals another terrible health risk of domestic violence," says lead researcher S V Subramanian.
Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Viral Acharya is the eighth economist to quit since the Modi government took office.
The award is constituted in the memory of Prince Mahidol, the father of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
A new report compiled by researchers at Harvard Medical School, suggest that the medications work only if the man is feeling sexual desire for his partner, but if emotional issues are impinging on libido, the pills will not help.
'The easy availability of funds has enabled us to not only hire the best faculty, but has also made it possible for us to retain them with the best possible infrastructure -- labs, grants etc,' Ashoka University VC Malabika Sarkar tells Geetanjali Krishna.
Simply put, say researchers in a study widely cited in the international news media, obesity can spread through social interaction, much like flu
'..or even technology blindly. Rather, he wanted it to be in the control of ordinary people, not the corporate elite and the governments that serve them.' says Indian-born philosopher Akeel Bilgrami.
'Some of the longer-term implications of COVID-19 are not related to the virus itself.' 'They are actually related to immune responses from the virus.'
The relaxation response, the opposite of the stress response, is a state of profound rest and release.
Following their passion paid off for Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth with their fantasy sports platform Dream11 entering the unicorn club with a valuation of over $1 billion.
Technology can certainly help the spreading of education, for example in making the schooling of maths easier and faster
Past Rhodes scholars from America who have studied at Oxford University include president Bill Clinton, the newly elected Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and the eminent surgeon and bestselling writer Atul Gawande.
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