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INTERVIEW
A Push to the ‘Pull’ Entrepreneurs
Dr V Chandrasekar is Executive Advisor-Indu Centre for Infrastructure and Real Estate. Earlier, he was
Executive Director of Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (WCED) at The Indian School of Business
(ISB), Hyderabad. He has been actively involved in promoting new start-ups, both in technology and non-technology
areas. He is an Invited Member of the Techno Entrepreneurship Promotion Program of the Department of Science
and Technology, Government of India. He has taught at the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore, University of Colorado, University of Denver, the University of Central Florida, Orlando,
Queen Margaret College, Scotland, and ESSEC Business School at Cergy, France. He has a Ph.D. from University of
Denver, graduate degrees from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Madras Christian College.
"Government policies and societal approach to support failing entrepreneurs are definitely more favorable in the
US. But successful entrepreneurship has a lot to do with robust growth and the changing market economy. This is
what is happening in India. Therefore, you will see more Indian entrepreneurs in future."
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HRM
Transforming Talented Terrors: Addressing Organizational Acedia with the
Virtue of Humility
-- Corné J Bekker
Talented terrors are, not only disruptive to the organizational goals of
the organization, but sometimes will drive away high performing employees who
are not prepared to deal with the politics of sloth.
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SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Developing Intercultural Competence: What Business Leaders Need to Know?
-- M Gail Derrick and Jiuhan Huang
Leaders and business executives must position themselves with a
global perspective and cultural competence to be able to participate in
today's competitive arena; those who do not, will find themselves and their
companies marginalized and ill-equipped for international business.
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COVER STORY
B-Schools: Bridging the Industry-Academia Gap
-- Ajaya
It is an established fact that the corporate scenario is undergoing
incredible transformation since the last decade, which has been marked by
changes, challenges and opportunities. The expectations of the corporates are surging
in terms of employee efforts and achievement. Employees need to be
creative, proactive and outgoing to avail of the opportunities thrown open by the
vibrant corporate world. This rising corporate expectation has challenged the very
mode of functioning of most of the management institutions as they still focus on
mere academic learning. The need of the hour today is, academic advancement
with personality development to make students' placements in tune with
the requirements of business corporations. This article dwells on
contemporary challenges before the management institutions and reflects on some of
the initiatives to align the institutes with the industry expectations.
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COVER STORY
Achieving Excellence:
B-Schools in India
-- Rahul Choudaha
Undoubtedly many Indian B-Schools aspire to be in the global league of best
B-Schools. However, they fall short of achieving it because of several internal
and external factors, which are explained in detail in this article.
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COVER STORY
Management Education in India: Growth and Trends
-- Bholanath Dutta
There are reasons for optimism that business education in India would
improve and be appreciated globally. Significant improvements in the quality of
business programs have occurred since the policies of liberalization in India. The
existence of pockets of quality is evidence that it is possible to get high quality education
in India. The effort to reach out globally will also play an important role
in exchanging institutional learning and in broadening the perspectives of
the faculty members and the students and lead to improvement in the quality
of business education in India.
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INDUSTRY
Knowledge Management: A Framework for IT Sector
-- Kamlesh Kumar Mishra and Rajesh Kumar Upadhyay
The biggest challenge for IT companies is, not only to deal with knowledge
base associated with highly dynamic IT tools and techniques, but managing
the knowledge base associated with the complex business processes of
multiple clients being handled by various project teams at different locations across
the globe is really a mind-boggling task. This article aims to propose a
systemic knowledge management framework for IT Sector.
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TECHNOLOGY
Technology-led Transformations
-- Mahima Rai
This article aims at understanding and recognizing the transformations
that Information Technology has been able to achieve across the world in general
and India in particular. It is also an endeavor to see what the future of Information
and technology holds for us.
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MARKETING
Strategies for Strengthening Customer Relationship in Recession
-- K B Sridevi and S David Amirtha Rajan
To attract and retain customers, marketers can no more depend on
conventional customer service and support personnel alone. They need to have a right mix
of technology and analytic capabilities.
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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Organizational Politics: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
-- Dr. Gaurav Sankalp and Shalini Agrawal
It is not just only in international affairs, Parliament and domestic issues
where politics occurs. In fact, every organization is actively engaged in politics.
Politics plays a major role in the functioning of any organization. This means it has a
direct impact on the behavior of the employees of the organization. Power and
politics has a very close relationship. It is assumed that an individual who has more
power has a greater scope for indulging in politics, but this is not always
true. Sometimes, a person who is close to the center of power also influences politics.
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CASE STUDY
Corporate Financial Governance and Ethics Dilemma
-- Pankaj Baag
This case study deals with approaches to ethics, corporate governance
and strategic issues in the field of investment banking. It discusses ethical issues
in finance and the behavioral effects of one's action on others in the
corporate market; agency problem and incentives associated with it; and financial
network contracts with responsibilities, incentives and wealth maximization issuesall
of which are of topical relevance for the current management students
and practitioners.
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BOOK REVIEW
Multiple Intelligences for Inspired Workplaces
-- Author: Anitha Arunsimha
Reviewed by Asha Sanath
The book captures the nine intelligences, as part of the Multiple
Intelligence Theory, propounded by Dr. Howard Gardner.
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