Australian Open: Magical Roger Federer takes on Novak Djokovic
By Gaurav Kalra There was visible gasping. And audible swooning. While sparkle mode is his default setting at most times, Roger Federer has turned it up a notch at the Australian Open. It isn’t merely...
View ArticleWorld T20: Australia need to tackle spin well to win, says Michael Clarke
By Chetan Narula Five, the number of times Australia have won the ODI World Cup. Compare this with the number of times they’ve won the Twenty20 version since its inception in 2007 — zero. It’s...
View ArticleCracking the mobility code; the future is services!
By Rahul Sharma ‘Everything changes and nothing standstill’. This phrase from a pre Socratic Greek philosopher- ‘Heraclitus of Ephesus’ stands apt for the smartphone industry across the globe. In a...
View ArticleWhy public markets will be the real test for startups
By Arvinder Gujral The enterprise value of Google pre-IPO was estimated to be between $33 to $40 billion (based on a S&P’s pre-IPO Google report). Google listed on the Nasdaq on August 19, 2004 at...
View ArticleLPG subsidy: Analysing the ‘Give it Up’ scheme
By Kirk R Smith & Ambuj D Sagar In recent years, a new kind of public policy tool, the ‘nudge’, has gained currency. Drawing on psychology and behavioural economics, a ‘nudge’ tool aims to guide...
View ArticleCorporate valuation and customer valuation
By Peter Fader This paper brings together two topics: one very old and well established, and one that is new and emerging. The old topic is corporate valuation. Everybody today is talking about how you...
View ArticleDon’t blame or complain
By Chander Gupta During one of those Whats-App chats recently with my niece who lives in New York, she shared that day’s weather in NYC. I was amazed that it was –11° C in NYC...
View ArticleLet’s see what this new Yuvraj Singh has got
By Chetan Narula One of the key points of Ravi Shastri’s pre-series press conference in Adelaide was when he spoke about the morale of the seniors returning to the T20 fold. He held on to...
View ArticleHow Novak DJokovic is making a joke out of tennis
By Boria Majumdar Modern tennis is staring down the barrel. It is all so predictable and the crisis is only deepening with time. And the name of the crisis – yes, the crisis, on this...
View ArticleWooing back the Starbucks brigade: Tea companies innovate to make it popular
By Sutanuka Ghosal “Wow!” exclaimed 20-year-old Sayani Mukherjee when she learnt from her friend that Jadavpur University would host another tea carnival next month on campus. “Last year I had tasted...
View ArticleBanking reforms: How to improve banks’ balancesheets
By Ananth Narayan Global markets are off to a shaky start in 2016. The Chinese economy appears to be slowing. The capacity of central banks and governments to counter a China slowdown will be tested....
View ArticleGandhiji’s life lessons
By Suraksha Giri First, do away with platitudes. Language, communication and discussion have become a labyrinth of context, nuances and sophistication. A society based on truth and non-violence affirms...
View ArticleNations as brands: Why perception matters
By David Reibstein Nations and geographies such as cities, states and regions have brand associations. Brands are perceptions that people have of the region — anticipation of what they can expect. We...
View ArticleNeed strong pool of local fund managers, capital
By Gopal Srinivasan There is a Silicon Valley adage that successful investors should stick to the “one hour” rule, fund startups that are within a 50-mile radius. But Indian startups today operate at...
View ArticleLet Facebook get into a PPP if it wants to bring the internet to all
By Milind Deora India’s everlasting net neutrality debate never ceases to amaze me. This time, however, the fight isn’t between telcos and over-the-top (OTT) service providers. It’s between Facebook...
View ArticleA Divine Gift
By OSHO Religion has to be rooted in the earth. It also has to rise towards the sun. It is like a lotus flower — rooted in mud and rising towards the sun. The lotus...
View ArticleTracking the highs and lows of a great business
By Dhirendra Kumar Analysts of Indian equity investments now have a pet hate -IndiGo airlines. A few days ago, IndiGo’s first post-IPO results came out. Analysts declared the numbers and the...
View ArticleSmart City Challenge has kick-started a revolution in urban landscape
By M Venkaiah Naidu The proposal for building smart cities was mooted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 as part of ‘Mission Transform Nation’. The announcement of 20 smart cities selected from a...
View ArticleIndia too dumb for artificial intelligence?
By Anjana Menon Machines are having a go at human intelligence. Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program, AlphaGo, recently beat the human European champion of the ancient Chinese board game Go,...
View ArticleSemidistraction is potentially devastating to your performance
By Cal Newport Researchers have studied the effect of multitasking — trying to accomplish multiple tasks simultaneously — on performance, but in the modern knowledge office, it was more common to find...
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