How to deal with death
By Jamuna Rangachari Isn’t it amazing that we never think of death as a real possibility in our own lives? Coping with death — whether dealing with the possibility of one’s own death or that...
View ArticleHow the next US jobs report may influence the Fed
By Mohamed A El-Erian Most of the time, it would be very foolish to suggest that a single data release could determine a policy decision by the Federal Reserve. After all, Fed officials — board...
View ArticleIndia, simply plug into Tesla
By Anjana Menon August, usually dull, was a highly charged month. Elon Musk unveiled the world’s fastest car: an electric Tesla. Shortly before that, he bid for SolarCity, the biggest rooftop solar...
View ArticleBehaviour and science
By G S Tripathi Science is beyond the grasp of many mainly because it is perceived to be complicated. However, a closer inspection of some of the laws and phenomena in science would reveal how...
View ArticleRBI reforms have opened up currency market
By Kuntal Sur The measures Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced for the development of corporate bond and currency markets cover all the three areas of market development — a) market regulations and...
View ArticleCoach and player parting ways doesn’t always mean there is a conflict
By Joy Bhattacharjya I wish they had not named the Indian coaching awards after Guru Dronacharya. My reasons are neither religious nor aesthetic. It just perpetuates a myth about the coach player...
View ArticleBehind every successful woman there is a man
By Boria Majumdar Behind every successful man there is a woman goes the conventional saying. For our athletes, however, it is the exact opposite. Behind the three girls, Dipa Karmakar, Sakshi Malik and...
View ArticleDeliver GST from evil, amen
By Hema Ramakrishnan Subramanian Swamy has reportedly advised the prime minister to dump the private ownership structure of the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), the company created to run GST’s...
View ArticleThe kings of good times
By Anuvab Pal I was at an awards ceremony of a leading Indian multinational and the CEO was giving his usual speech aboutthe year’s performance. After he was done with the usual business forecast...
View ArticleManaging public debt
The crisis of 2008 originated in the US. Normally, the country [where] the crisis originated should be the one that symptomatically is worse off and ought to have the hardest time recovering. I...
View ArticleReorganise your mind
By Swami Sukhabodhananda People raise their standard of living but not their standard of thinking. Understand the mind, transform the mind and transcend the mind — this is possible through yoga. Our...
View ArticleAn excuse to be joyous
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev The whole science and wisdom of what we refer to as inner engineering means not seeing joy as something that we could achieve in our life but seeing joy as the...
View ArticleTill taxes do them part?
By Dinesh Kanabar On Monday, the European Commission (EC) ordered Apple to pay up to $12.5 billion in back taxes to Ireland. The EC found that two tax rulings issued by Ireland to Apple artificially...
View ArticleCapital budgeting
In my experience, executives struggle to figure out where they should reallocate, how much they should reallocate, and how to execute successful reallocation.… Beware the tyranny of averages. A single...
View ArticleThe ‘almost champion’
By Abhishek Takle The enduring image of Felipe Massa’s 15-year-long career has to be the diminutive Brazilian standing atop the podium at his home race in 2008. He had come so close to winning the...
View ArticleThere’s no success like failure
By Arun Pereira Over 25 years ago, Peter Drucker wrote about the coming knowledge organisation, and its importance for business success. Today, consistent with Drucker’s predictions, most experts agree...
View ArticleMarketing & Analytics
By Peter Fader As I celebrate year 30 on the faculty here, I’ve spent about half that time — well, I’ve spent all that time — building mathematical models to predict different things about consumer...
View ArticleTadpoles to thunder lizards
Ina seminal 2015 article (goo.gl/a78kA9) on the culture of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, Newsweek highlighted the rarity of enormously successful tech startups — unicorns — that were valued at...
View ArticleThe Virtue of Patience
By Janina Gomes The sweep of the scythe is sure to be followed by the shower that brings relief. Time and again, God comes into our lives with the scythe, which we tend to dread....
View ArticleA teacher on her students
By: Chitra Srinivas Teaching is my passion, and luckily, my experience as a teacher has been beautiful, emotional and fulfilling. Over the years, I’ve watched the student-teacher equation evolve: from...
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