Can China teach India about cities?
By: Vishal R & Kala S Sridhar Bengaluru’s civic governance is quite typical of Indian cities. Recently, the Karnataka High Court directed the city’s municipal body, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara...
View ArticlePower Utility Scenario
By DAVID FRANKEL ET AL As the world economy has grown, so has demand for power. Even so, the performance of utilities has been dull. The average cumulative return to shareholders of 50 major publicly...
View ArticleShared Values, Common Destiny: What we expect from the 16th ASEAN-India Summit
By Prabir De Next week Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to attend the 16th ASEAN-India Summit and 13th East Asia Summit (EAS) at Singapore. Starting 2014, the coming one will be Prime Minister...
View ArticleBanking on Analytics
By Imke Jacob et al We recently conducted an indepth analysis of more than 20 banks in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), assessing their analytics maturity.… For more than half of the banks...
View ArticleFor Success and Peace
By E RAVISHANKER All actions that are undertaken can have four parts, not necessarily in sequence. These are: focus on the action at hand; discrimination between right and wrong to help us act...
View ArticleHow to Make ACs Cool
By Richard Branson ‘Disruption’ is a word that gets overused. But it is important to remember that shaking up industries and ‘screwing business-as-usual’ can do a world of good. Examples abound. Mobile...
View ArticleIndia must name a special envoy for Kabul theatre
By Prasad Nallapati India’s decision to send two former envoys to participate in Afghan peace talks in Moscow (November 9) is a path-breaking decision, though not for the reasons cited by the spokesman...
View ArticleIntellectual property rights: Create, consume, own
By: Francis Gurry What’s new in Indian cinema? A lot — and not just the latest releases. According to the latest figures, the Indian movie industry is now the world’s largest. At the same time,...
View ArticleInnovation Quantified
By ALAN GREENSPAN What is distinctive about this book is that we state that creative destruction — and, hence, its most immediate measurement, productivity or output per hour — is the key to determine...
View ArticleDivine Avatars
By SHAMMI PARANJAPE Krishna assures in the Bhagwad Gita, “For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil forces and the firm establishment of dharma, I am born in every age.” It is...
View ArticleCreative Energy
By ANDREW COHEN There is a different motive that can easily equal the energy of the ego, if not far surpass it. I call it egoless passion. The goal is to awaken egoless passion in human...
View ArticleChinese Chequers
By KAI-FU LEE We currently see narrow artificial intelligence (AI) — not the science fiction, AI human intelligence — but specific AI engines that solve one problem at a time. For instance, [we see]...
View ArticleRules of Conduct
BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR You are here for a unique and noble purpose, not just to eat, sleep and talk. Remember this always, and don’t stop smiling. To grow and to be strong, we need...
View ArticleAre You Workplace Cultured?
By Anuvab Pal A number of Indian startups — our great glory to economic success — have come under the spotlight, mostly for the conduct of powerful men in those firms. These are the sort...
View ArticleGet rid of fin-optical illusions
By Ashok Haldia The Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) has turned out to be quite a case study of how to notset up and run an infrastructure development and finance company....
View ArticleAfghanistan as Partner Country at India International Trade Fair
By Neelapu Shanti Afghanistan seeks unique opportunity in the India International Trade fair as a partner country that begins in New Delhi from 14 November, 2018 supported by India Trade Promotion...
View ArticleMovement to Stillness
By SP MEHTA There are only two things to what we know as life: stillness and movement. The physical creation that we see around is the movement, and that which creates is stillness. Every movement...
View ArticleLeaner, meaner business machine
By N Venkatram The recent affirmation of India’s higher ranking up from 100 to 77 this year in the World Bank’s Doing Business (DB) 2019 report, which investigates the regulations that enhance business...
View ArticleNo point leaving on a Jet Plane
By Arijit Barman Two’s company, three’s a crowd. Then why on earth is Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran, after inheriting two sub-scaled airline joint ventures — AirAsia India and Vistara — pursuing...
View ArticleFor Spiritual Awakening
By SANT RAJINDER SINGH Technology has enabled us to access a wealth of information from all fields of knowledge with just a few computer keystrokes. But with all this compiled knowledge, are there...
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