San Francisco: Google Inc unveiled major changes to its shopping business that will likely prove controversial in the e-commerce world. Starting in the fall, product search results for users in the United States will be influenced by how much retailers and advertisers pay, a company executive said. In the past, product search results were based mainly on relevance and the program was free. Google, the world's most popular Internet search...
10:28 AM, Jun 02, 2012
'Saar Osthara', to be produced by Vyjayanthi Movies, will go on the floors from June 16. Ravi Teja and Kajal Aggarwal will join the shooot on the same day in Ooty. The banner has announced the film's launch date along with the heroine's name. It is known that after Amala Paul backed off from the film, Trisha Krishnan too walked out without citing any reason even in her Twitter post....
11:46 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Howard Gardner The Man: The professor of cognition and education at Harvard Graduate School of Education taught us why IQ is not everything; broadened the focus of the educators, and changed the way children are taught in American schools"even as he introduced the idea of multiple intelligences in the field of psychology. He tells us the meaning of truth, goodness and beauty in an age of twitter. The Oeuvre: Spans...
01:14 PM, May 25, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Britain is keen to forge ties with the city-based Asian School of Business (ASB) for conducting collaborative studies in areas like climate change, agriculture and energy, director of the premier B-school said on Thursday. The proposal for tie-ups between British universities and the ASB came up for discussion during a meeting between British Deputy High Commissioner in Chennai Mike Nithavrianakis and ASB director S. Rajeev here on Wednesday. "The...
06:19 PM, May 24, 2012
Michael Porter The Man: Is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School. Porter is every B-School students staple diet; gave the term competitive advantage and several frameworks"Five Forces, Cost / Differentiation"to think about management problems; founder of Monitor, a consultancy that Rahul Gandhi started his career in. He tells us how to get business and society to work together. The Oeuvre: Has written widely on management strategy and...
11:08 AM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Some IT professionals and businessmen were facing problems in getting visas mainly due to outsourcing issues in those countries but Indian consulates are active in providing all help in resolving the grievances, Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Asked during Question Hour about denial of visa by some countries to some IT professionals and even students, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said her ministry as...
10:40 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Worried over deteriorating global economic situation and its impact on India, the government on Wednesday announced that it would resort to "unpopular" austerity measures to deal with fiscal problems but made it clear there is no pressing of "panic button". Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Rajya Sabha that the government needed to deal with difficult situation in wake of the rising prices of the crude oil in...
06:59 PM, May 16, 2012
New York: IT giant Infosys paid its top management personnel a total remuneration of $ 10.7 million (over Rs 50 crore) during the last fiscal, marking an increase of about 50 per cent from the previous year. The remuneration paid to its key management personnel, which includes directors and executive council members, had remained almost unchanged at about $ 7 million for fiscals, 2009-10 and 2010-11, as per an annual...
04:36 PM, May 13, 2012
Mumbai: At the opening ceremony for Daimler AG's $850 million India factory, Chairman Dieter Zetsche stepped down from the cab of a gleaming yellow 25-tonne truck with scaled-down horsepower, a stripped-back gearbox and no sign of the iconic Mercedes-Benz three-pointed star on its grille. Daimler has been assembling high-end trucks in India for years, but its recently launched cut-price BharatBenz line has joined a trend by global heavy equipment manufacturers...
01:19 AM, May 13, 2012
Be careful. Very careful. "Bad management theories are destroying good management practices". That is what Sumantra Ghoshal, one of the most respected voices in the world on what management ought to be like, argued in a path breaking paper by the same name. It was published shortly after he died in 2004 and continues to hold resonance even today. It was written when a wave of devastating corporate scandals had...
01:46 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: In order to recover his business losses, a 43-year-old software engineer stole jewellery worth Rs 3 lakh from his neighbour's flat but landed in the police net, police said on Friday. Debashish Dutta, a resident of Shyam Vihar Phase-II in west Delhi's Dwarka, was arrested on Thursday for stealing jewellery from Shikha Paul's flat. Paul informed the police that she resides at Vizag in Andhra Pradesh with her...
01:30 AM, May 12, 2012
Dubai: The booming markets of India and China, where a new war for professional talent is hotting up, will see incredible opportunities for Western professionals, a noted marketing expert has said. "The new war for professional talent is hotting up like never before and will see huge and developing opportunities for westerners looking for jobs in India and China," said Nirmalya Kumar, Professor of Marketing at London Business School. Speaking...
03:18 PM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: Calling for renewed efforts to revive India's flagging structural reform agenda, the IMF on Friday said governance concerns have weakened business sentiment in the country. IMF's Asia-Pacific Regional Economic Outlook released on Friday pointed out that domestic factors have also played a role in India's growth slowdown over the second half of 2011. "Concerns about governance and slow project approvals by the government have weakened business sentiment, which...
07:44 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Mumbai: Maverick director Ram Gopal Varma feels that though the item songs are intended to boost overall entertainment value, they have now become the face of contemporary films. "The technical definition of item songs is that they are supposed to be an item and to give hype and additional bonus to a film. But in today's times item song has become face of the film. But in 'Department' the item...
05:47 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Shital Kakkar Mehra is one of the most experienced practitioners of corporate etiquette and international protocol in India today, having trained over three thousand executives, focusing on the specific requirements of the global Indian. Her articles have been published across business dailies and magazines. For the past 4 years, and has been invited as guest speaker to several business schools, including the Indian School of Business, IIM Bangalore and IIM...
06:20 PM, Apr 25, 2012
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