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Need To Improve Ability To Attract The Best Faculty

SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) boasts of a unique pedagogy, with a strong element of non-classroom based experiential learning, and a faculty body with a mix of researchers and practitioners-turned-academics, which ensures that what is taught in the classrooms is current and relevant. In an email interview with BW’s PRIYA SARAF, RANJAN BANERJEE, Dean, SPJIMR discusses issues surrounding B-school education.

Obsession With 'Quality'

The IIMB is driven by a mission to .mould leaders and entrepreneurs through transformative education BW.

Setting Standards

A luminous faculty and an alumni of industry stalwarts, keeps IIMA in a league of its own, as the most coveted B-school in India.

Performance Paranoia

Right from hiring the right person to promotions, career development and all other business and people initiatives, values remain the guiding light at HDFC Life. The values framework EPICC (Excellence, People Engagement, Integrity, Customer Centricity, and Collaboration) informs the inspiring culture at HDFC Life, fostering growth and progress for its employees. Vibha Padalkar, MD & CEO, shares with BW Businessworld’s Avishek Banerjee the workplace dynamics at his company.

The New G3: US, China And India

A G3 triangle of power comprising the US, China and India in the second quartile of this century (i.e., after 2025) will have conflicting national interests though India and the US clearly have more in common: democracy, language and laws

Fiscal Stimulus For Ural India Could Drive Consumerism

Recently appointed Chairman of Dabur, Amit Burman, the youngest to occupy the post, is credited with conceiving and nurturing the Real Juice brand and making it a category leader. In a free-wheeling conversation with BW Businessworld’s Jyotsna Sharma, Burman talks about his as well as Dabur’s journey, the challenges they faced along the way, besides a whole gamut of issues includingrship, Indian economy and its challenges, among other things.

'India Is A Key Centre For Us'

Miki Migdal, president of the NICE Enterprise Product Group, a big data firm listed on Nasdaq, talks to BW Businessworld’s Ashish Sinha about the growing importance of its India Global Talent Center at Pune, NICE’s largest site outside its Israel headquarters.

Why And How To Build A Respected Brand?

Respect in the market and among your customers is vital to brand longevity. Respect means trust, which in turn translates into business for you.

The Younger Generations Are Driven By A Sense Of Purpose Rather Than Monetary Rewards

INDIA IS ONE of the world’s fastest growing economies. With fast-paced economic progress, there is also an underlying need to have corporate leaders consciously implement best work practices and business ethics as a core part of a company’s growth strategy. Only this will result in creating ‘highly effective global leaders for future generations’.Brand Tata has always been synonymous with ‘trust’. Even today, each employee of the Tata Group is proud to be part of a truly ‘global’ and yet ‘humble and socially responsible’ company. Munnish Puri meets with Mukund Rajan to discuss his role as the Tata Group’s chief sustainability and chief ethics officer.

A Big Stepping Stone

The Success of Google Globally Is Primarily Dependent on Its Large User Base, and With 1.2 Bn People in India, the Country Is Surely a Very Important Market for It 

Last Straw On A Camel's Back?

Last Straw On A Camel's Back?

‘Cyber Security Breaches On The Rise'

Robert Le Busque, regional MD for Australia, New Zealand and India at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, told BW Businessworld’s Monica Behura that cyber security breach had risen by 500 per cent in India post demonetisation. 

Time For Greater Collaboration

In an exclusive interview with BW Businesssworld’s RUHAIL AMIN, Oracle Marketing Cloud’s marketing transformation & strategy director WENDY HOGAN spoke about the need to build complementary relationships between customer data and the potential challenges facing future marketers and more.

Taking Stock Advisory To Another Level

BW businessworld’s brij pahwa in conversation with kaushlendra singh sengar, founder and ceo.

No Second Guessing Here

The Central Banker’s tough stance on inflation lays to rest the questions on its autonomy, writes Clifford Alvares.

Big Push To Infrastructure

Money begets money. Will the Rs 4 trillion budgetary push to infrastructure attract global investors?

Since Growth Begets Growth

GMR Group is all set to begin the $2.5-billion renovation-cumcapacity expansion of Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, starting with Terminal 1 

Flexibility Is The Key Strategy

IT IS, PERHAPS, only human tendency to frame the times that one lives in as exceptional in the flow of history.

The Future Of Fintech

The nascent fintech industry in India is set for a boom and investments are expected to double to $2.4 billion by 2020

‘What I Inherited Is Today 12 Per Cent Of L&T; The Other 88 Per Cent I Have Created'

FOR A.M. NAIK, Larsen & Toubro is his temple and work, indeed, is worship. It’s his relentless passion and commitment to L&T that has led him to spot new opportunities in new businesses. The executive group chairman has transformed L&T from a mere engineering and EPC player to a mammoth conglomerate that’s into defence, water, technology and hydrocarbons, and heavy engineering. In a free-wheeling conversation with Clifford Alvares, Naik dwells at length on what drives him, on the importance of succession planning and the growth of L&T. Edited excerpts:

Bringing Democracy To Art

Crowdfunding Will Not Only Allow Art Lovers To Own A 'part' Of The Painting But Could Also Boost India's Art Market

Air India Sale Hits Turbulence

Air India Sale Hits Turbulence

The Enabler Of Sustainable Growth

Malik took Eicher Motors on a steady path of growth by focusing on strong cash flows, negative working capital & maximising operating leverage

Small Steps To Big Success

Bringing changes in ERM and better focus on working capital and resource allocation helped Ravichandran take the big leap

The Rise Of An Unicorn, Or Many

One in every five fundings in India is in the edtech sector that is pegged at over $100 billion. Indeed, the sector is fast growing and so are the chances of unicorns

India Scores Big!

India Scores Big!

Late, But A Good First Step

Late, But A Good First Step

‘BCCI Is The Biggest Media Company In The Country'

‘BCCI Is The Biggest Media Company In The Country’

‘I Would Also Like To See Our Economies Come Together'

AMERICAN Democrat Robby Wells will be contesting the US Presidential polls in 2020. Ruhail Amin spoke to him during his recent visit to Mumbai, where he shared his vision for the United States. Wells remained reticent about the Trump Administration’s flip-flops on foreign policy and climate change, but spoke enthusiastically about the need for new rules of engagement in the Middle East and Afghanistan and of the need for a stronger economic partnership with India. Edited excerpts:

Not A Cracker Of A Curb

A ban on cracker sales in Delhi hasn’t worked miracles. However, it could be a step in the right direction.