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The Indian Rupee: Slow Internationalisation and Capital Controls This article examines the indian rupee: slow internationalisation and capital controls in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overv...

The Indian Ocean: Strategic Importance in New Great Power Competition This article examines the indian ocean: strategic importance in new great power competition in contemporary India and its global implications. Context...

The Brain Drain Reversal: Why Top Talent Returns to India This article examines the brain drain reversal: why top talent returns to india in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overview The Brain...

The Adani Effect: Corporate Governance Lessons for India This article examines the adani effect: corporate governance lessons for india in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overview The Adani Ef...

NRI Remittances: The $125 Billion Lifeline This article examines nri remittances: the $125 billion lifeline in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overview NRI Remittances: The $125 Billion Lifeli...

Modi's Second Term: What the First 100 Days Reveal Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third term began in June 2024, yet the first hundred days of his new cabinet reveal a government focused more on consolidating economic ga...

India's Green Energy Target: 500GW Renewable by 2030 This article examines india's green energy target: 500gw renewable by 2030 in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overview India's Green Energy...

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India's Digital Public Infrastructure: UPI Model for the World This article examines india's digital public infrastructure: upi model for the world in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overview...

India's Defence Exports: Quiet Revolution in Global Arms Market This article examines india's defence exports: quiet revolution in global arms market in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overvie...

Indian Startups Going Global: International Expansion Strategies This article examines indian startups going global: international expansion strategies in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overv...

Indian Luxury Market: From Fabindia to Dior This article examines indian luxury market: from fabindia to dior in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overview Indian Luxury Market: From Fabindia to...

The Indian Farmer: Why Prosperity and Crisis Coexist The Indian farmer's paradox: agriculture sector data shows production records, productivity improvements, and export growth. Yet farmers report declining incomes, incr...

Trump's Return and India's Strategic Balancing Act Donald Trump's return to the White House in January 2025 creates uncertainty for India—a relationship that had deepened under Biden but rests on complex interests that m...

India's Semiconductor Gamble: Why Making Chips Matters More Than Ever India announced its semiconductor ambitions in 2021: attract global chipmakers, build local capability, establish India as an alternative to Taiwan an...

Chennai-Kochi Industrial Corridor: South India's New Growth Story This article examines chennai-kochi industrial corridor: south india's new growth story in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Ove...

BRICS Expansion: India's Multipolar World Strategy This article examines brics expansion: india's multipolar world strategy in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overview BRICS Expansion: India's...

Ayurveda's Global Rise: Can Ancient Wisdom Scale in the Modern Wellness Market? Ayurveda—India's ancient system of medicine—is experiencing unprecedented global interest. Wellness brands worldwide incorporate Ayurvedic p...

Starbucks rolls out “Starbucks Evenings” This week Starbucks rolled out Starbucks evenings in seventy locations countrywide. After 4 P.M, you can walk into Starbucks for a glass of carefully selected wine with small plat...

Whole Foods- Whole paycheck. People pay a premium to shop at Whole Foods, believing the price is just for the health benefits the store’s supposedly superior groceries and produce have. Truth? Not so much. The 24 Whole F...

A video showing a car attempting to park but actually plowing into journalists might have resulted from the Volvo’s owner not paying an extra fee to have the car avoid pedestrians. The video, taken in the Dominican Repub...

One of the popular questions on ( is – What did Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and other famous people do between the ages of 10-22. Answers are interesting. When most children and teens are busy watching TV shows and...

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There are so many reasons to love Naperville and among them one that stands out is budding women entrepreneurs. So much talent in this small town! Today we write about Niketa Jhaveri, a Naperville Momtrepreneur who devel...

WotNow is a social local calendar app that helps manage life events better. This is the brainchild of Deepa Salem (Founder/CEO). Anand Sivaraman ( Chief Technology Officer) and Vidhya Iyer, (Communications & Marketing),...

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Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped the Forbes magazine's list of the top 100 richest tycoons in India for the eighth consecutive year with a net worth of $23.6 billion, up $2.6 billion from last year....

Facebook testing “disappearing posts” feature like Snapchat Facebook is testing a “snapchat” like feature where you can schedule a post to expire in due time. Snapchat, is a social networking service where chats disappea...

SOMPRIYA FINE SPIRITS, LLC Announces the Launch of SOMRUS, The Original Indian Cream Liqueur A first of its kind product to roll out in Illinois, New Jersey & New York CHICAGO, IL – SEPTEMBER 2014 – Chicago-based SomPriy...

Martine Rothblatt, the highest-paid female CEO was born a male. To be specific, she belongs to the category of trans genders. Roughly five percent of the Fortune 500 companies are run by female CEOs and those five percen...

Nigeria's Richest Woman Folorunsho Alakija is proud to say that she never went to university. This businesswoman is worth $2.6 billion by FORBES. While addressing the students at University of Lagos she revealed that she...

Throughout the summer we've had an intern working with us to help test new product features before they go live with our customers. Evan is a Junior from Carnegie Mellon. Here he is in the office showing his support for...

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A new app called “FIXED” helps top fight parking ticket fees. Right now it is only available in the San Francisco area. San Francisco is one of the cities, which has very strict parking guidelines. Once a person gets a p...

Once in a while every house would have a clogged toilet . Boy! That’s ugly! Unclogging toilets are a pain –tools and chemicals are abundant in the marketplace for unclogging them. The best one though is baking soda-which...

Facebook friends could change credit score A new trend – lenders would be giving loans not just on your credit score but also on the kind of friends you have on Facebook. Simply put, if you have friends that show irrespo...

Desperate times calls for desperate measures. People waited for Christmas and Thanksgiving to buy the things they wanted at a bargain – well ,now there is no need to wait . ( reported on ( “Even before the school bells a...

yesterday – “Once you've changed the world once, you'll do it again and again and again.” True to his word he intends to change the entertainment in his “Little Red “ flight. “Little Red” is Virgin Atlantic’s new UK dome...

Most stores will ask for your zip code when completing a credit card transaction. Without blinking, we give our five digit numbers readily. It will be a surprise to many that zip codes are not needed for the credit card...

Phaneesh Murthy, CEO of iGATE enterprises fired. He is accused of sexually harassing an employee. He, of course is denying the charges. He was asked to resign from Infosys in 2002 for sexual harassment charges against hi...

Restaurants and washrooms may have provided the ambience for some brilliant ideas, but for telecom operator Uninor, the flicker of inspiration came when a top executive was on his way home in an autorickshaw. Uninor Maha...

Samoa Air has become the first airline to start charging customers according to how much they weigh. The company, based in the Samoan capital Apia, is the first to bring in the controversial measure that means overweight...

Days after ( (WIEF) dropped Gujaratchief minister Narendra Modi as its keynote speaker, ( chairman, Manipal Global, turned down the invitation to speak at the annual event, saying that he is upset at the way India is tre...

holder of a Harvard M.B.A., protégé of Clinton Treasury Secretary ( former vice president at ( ( chief operating officer at ( ( and mother of two young children—believes women are holding themselves back. In "Lean In," s...

Facebook reveals secrets you haven’t shared The increasing amount of personal information that can been gleaned by computer programs that track how people use Facebook has been revealed by an extensive academic study. Su...

Best Buy Co. said Monday it has ended its program that allowed corporate employees to control their schedules and how often they showed up at the company’s Richfield headquarters. Known as Results Only Work Environment (...

He's been named the ( a self-made mogul behind the Zara fashion house who has amassed a staggering fortune estimated at $US57 billion ($55 billion). But search for a photograph of Amancio Ortega online or any information...

This is the third wave of test results received by the FSA, which has now received a total of 5,430 test results. Meanwhile, new tests conducted on beef retail products revealed no new cases of horsemeat adulteration, th...

Young Electronics Engineer commits suicide - was maybe asked to spy by the chinese government On June 24 last year, the body of a young US electronics engineer, Shane Todd, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment. P...

Titan boss Maurice Taylor tells French they have 'beautiful women' but 'no idea how to run a business' An American tyre tycoon has fired off a second virulent missive to France's industry minister, saying his country has...

Google looks to cut funds to illegal sites The web search giant, which is embroiled in a long-running row over the way it deals with pirated material, is considering the radical measure so that it can get rid of the root...

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The desire from people all over the world to look for a life in US continues to be ( There are millions of illegal immigrants in US who are perpetually at the risk of deportation. Obama tried to get them some comfort, an...

Last month German retailer Aldi posted ( The UK business made a profit after tax of £57.8 million in 2011, having made a loss of £56 million in the previous year. The privately owned chain opened 29 new stores last year...

The showdown between global steel giant ArcelorMittal and France over its Florange plant hit new heights on Monday as a minister said the company was no longer welcome in the country. A source close to the matter said co...

An Indian radiographer has been sacked from his job at a cancer hospital after six years following a string of complaints that he could not speak clear English. Ramani Ramaswany was dismissed from The Christie hospital,...

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There was a time when the holiday shopping season began the day after Thanksgiving. Then it began on Thanksgiving itself. Then it began in early November. At some point in the recent past, Christmas decorations began app...

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Guardian is collecting stories on Steve Jobs through readers comments . Steve Jobs changed the tech world and for the better ... but people generally knew him as a selfish and self-centered person. Some stories will amaz...

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Tim Cook's open letter apologizing for Apple Maps — published in September 2012 following the disastrous launch of iOS 6, which replaced Google Maps with Apple's own mapping application — became a minor classic of the co...

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The Indian government's decision in September 2012 to allow foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail — permitting international retailers like Walmart and Carrefour to establish majority-owned operations in India...

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Self-Driving Cars Approved by California Legislature In California, it's illegal to talk on a cell phone handset while driving your car. The reasoning is pretty simple: with one hand glued to your smartphone, not only ar...

In the crowded landscape of the American food industry, the story of Deep Foods stands out as a remarkable account of immigrant entrepreneurship, cultural preservation, and business acumen that transformed a small family...

It was a rare moment to see the Chairman of such a big company, delve into personal memories of an era gone by, and that too on a public platform. I am talking about Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki's nostalgic m...

Apple Inc. on Monday gave a federal judge a list of eight Samsung Electronics Co. products it wants pulled from shelves and banned from the U.S. market, including popular Galaxy model smartphones. U.S. District Judge Luc...

Apple is Wall Street's all-time MVP -that's Most Valuable Property. On Monday, Apple's surging stock propelled the company's value to $624 billion, the world's highest, ever. It beat the record for market capitalization...

Google's announcement of significant workforce reductions—concentrated in its hardware, recruiting, and certain product divisions—reflected the technology industry's broader recalibration following years of aggressive hi...

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Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs, predicted "horrible problems" in the coming years as cloud-based computing takes hold. Wozniak, 61, was the star turn at the penultimate performance in Washin...

Maruti Seeking Vaastu Expert Advice Maruti Suzuki appears to have suddenly realized that the root cause of all its problems at its Manesar plant is Vaastu defects. How else can one understand the fact that Maruti Suzuki...

Grids supplying electricity to half of India's 1.2 billion people collapsed on Tuesday, trapping coal miners, stranding train travellers and plunging hospitals into darkness in the second major blackout in as many days....

Randi Zuckerberg — older sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, former director of market development at Facebook, and briefly a reality television producer — made news in 2012 when it emerged that she had joined Go...

The next time you perform a calculation in Google's search box, be prepared for a surprise. New Google calculatorGoogle launched a new feature that displays a scientific calculator as well as the results of your calculat...

McDonald's made one of the most improbable brand pivots in fast food history when it invested heavily in upgrading its coffee program, launching the McCafé platform with espresso drinks and specialty beverages that posit...

German court bans Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 7.7 across the European Union, but allows Samsung to continue selling its Tab 10.1N. The patent war between Apple and Samsung rages on. The latest victim is Samsung's...

A robust and self-sustaining U.S. recovery is not on the cards, and we should now expect below trend growth for many years to come, according to Nouriel Roubini, the economist famed for his bearish views. Roubini, best-k...

The software industry in India's technology capital, which has been a beneficiary of benign government neglect, is concerned that the malevolent gaze of arcane rules and regulations may be falling upon it. Employers in B...

That Fresh Look, Genetically Buffed A small company is trying to bring to market a genetically engineered apple that does not turn brown when sliced or bruised. But it has much of the rest of the apple industry seeing re...

Governance, Corruption, and Institutional Strength Good governance is foundational to societal progress. When governance is weak and corruption is endemic, even well-intentioned policies fail. The Corruption Challenge In...

Seeing a celebrity endorse a pair of shoes alters a woman's brain activity - even if she does not drop everything to get her feet into the latest Jimmy Choos, a study suggests. A Dutch team scanned the brains of 24 women...

An Indian-American couple has been charged by U.S. federal authorities for running a healthcare fraud scheme in which they claimed over $8 million through false medical bills. Usha Shah and Deepak Shah, both 63, of Michi...

Allegedly upset over her techie-husband's upcoming assignment in the US, homemaker H Sowmya Vishwanath, 25, hanged herself at their house in Channasandra, near Whitefield, on Monday night. Sowmya, a native of Bijapur, ma...

FINS: Facebook to Launch Job Postings Board--Sources Facebook Inc. (FB) is planning to launch its own job board later this summer, said people familiar with the matter. The board will aggregate the job postings of third-...

Mitt Romney, during his 2012 presidential campaign, proposed bringing in McKinsey & Company — the global management consulting giant where he began his business career before co-founding Bain Capital — to conduct a compr...

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The story of contemporary India is the story of coming to terms with the legacy of two families: the Gandhis and the Ambanis. Taken literally, this statement is, of course, absurd. But it is often a summary way of thinki...

Apple has paid $60 million to settle a dispute in China over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market. Apple's...

In July 2012, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper publicly confirmed that he is gay in an email to Daily Beast columnist Andrew Sullivan, which Sullivan published with Cooper's permission. The statement was characteristically dir...

The Aakash tablet, developed through a partnership between the Indian government and the Canadian company DataWind and manufactured in India, was presented in 2011 and 2012 as a technological breakthrough that could tran...

The death of a Cognizant Technology Solutions employee found unresponsive in a US hotel room drew attention in India both because of the circumstances — a young Indian IT professional working abroad, far from family — an...

A pointed critique of Google's digital advertising business model made waves in the tech and marketing world, arguing that the search giant systematically profits from "accidental clicks" — interactions that generate rev...

India's corruption problem is not a peripheral dysfunction of an otherwise functional system. It is structural—woven into the incentive architecture of how political parties fund themselves, how government contracts are...

In several Afghan provinces the fight to curb the growing of opium poppies seems to be a losing battle. In 2011 a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime survey said opium poppy cultivation rose by 7% overall from the p...

The conviction of Rajat Gupta in June 2012 on four counts of securities fraud and conspiracy marked the end of a legal proceeding that had captivated both the business world and the Indian-American community — not becaus...

North Dakota's 2012 ballot measure to eliminate property taxes entirely—replacing them with unspecified alternative state revenues—was the most radical property tax proposal considered by any American state in recent mem...

The case of Krystle Marie Reyes of Oregon, who in 2012 filed a fraudulent tax return claiming a refund of approximately $2.1 million and received a prepaid debit card for that amount from the IRS, became one of the more...

Barnes & Noble has apologised to a 73-year-old man who was kicked out of one of its stores for browsing the children's section on his own. Dr. Omar Amin, from Scottsdale, Arizona, said he was asked to leave after a femal...

The attackers behind the complex Flame cyberespionage toolkit, believed to be a state-sponsored operation, used an extensive list of fake identities to register at least 86 domains, which they used as part of their comma...

Understanding Health and Wellness Health is multidimensional—physical, mental, emotional, and social. True health requires attention to all dimensions. The Interconnection of Health Factors Physical health influences men...

The conversation about inequality in America has increasingly centered on a distinction that was, until relatively recently, obscured by the broader category of "the rich": the difference between the merely affluent — do...

In the wake of the Andhra Pradesh High Court order striking down the 4.5 per cent sub-quota to minorities within OBC reservation, IITs have decided to abide by the ruling, "ignoring" the quota provision till further lega...

In 2011, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge — a competition inviting researchers and engineers to design a toilet that could function safely and hygienically without connecti...

On the surface, Thomas Langenbach had it all. A $2 million home with a killer view high up in the hills of San Carlos, California; a wife; two children; a nanny; and a prestigious job at technology giant SAP. But when po...

A civil lawsuit filed in 2012 against a prominent Indian-American executive — identified in various reports as a senior figure in the financial services industry — alleged a pattern of unwanted sexual advances, harassmen...

Indra Nooyi, the PepsiCo CEO whose career trajectory from Chennai to one of the most powerful positions in global business became a touchstone story in discussions of Indian-American achievement, has spoken in various in...

The phenomenon known as "vanity sizing" — the practice by clothing manufacturers of labeling garments with smaller size designations than their actual measurements correspond to, in order to flatter consumers and encoura...

When IBM banned employees from using Siri, Apple's voice assistant, on company devices, the technology press reported it with a mix of amusement and raised eyebrows. The concern IBM articulated was data privacy: conversa...

Gina Rinehart, the Australian mining magnate who by 2012 had become the world's richest woman with a fortune estimated at over twenty billion dollars, represented an unusual figure in the global conversation about wealth...

Big Tech and Society: Power, Responsibility, and the Path Forward The technology companies that shape modern life—Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon—wield unprecedented influence. Understanding this influence and its implic...

Facebook Shares Plummet on Day 2 Shares plunged on their second day on the stock market, a black eye for all those involved with the social networking company going public. "The underwriters completely screwed this up,"...

Billionaire Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani's wife Nita describes their 27-storey Mumbai house Antilla as a "modern home with an Indian heart" and the "only home we have in the world." The ultra-luxurious 400,000 sq f...

Facebook's experiment with charging page owners in New Zealand to "promote" posts to their own followers drew sharp criticism in 2012, exposing tensions between the social network's business model and user expectations b...

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SEC subpoenas Chipotle in hiring probe Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc on Friday said it received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of that agency's investigation into the burrito chain's hiring p...

Although companies have focused greater attention on the need for ethical practices over the past few decades, male business professionals who self-report high ethical character earn, on average, 3.4% less than their pee...

Scott Thompson's tenure as Yahoo CEO lasted approximately four months. He departed in May 2012 after it emerged that his official biography — circulated to investors, employees, and the public — contained a fabrication:...

The argument has a certain seductive logic: raise taxes on the wealthy, and they'll simply leave — taking their capital, their businesses, and their economic activity with them, leaving behind a smaller tax base and, ult...

Bill Gates has been cast as many things over the decades — college dropout turned tech visionary, ruthless monopolist, philanthropist attempting to rewrite his legacy, global health crusader. But a comic book hero? That...

Apple's new iPhone 5 could be housed in a little-known hi-tech alloy known as 'liquid metal' - which feels like glass to the touch. The alloy, a mix of titanium, nickel, copper and zirconium among other metals, is tough,...

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A quiet but growing trend emerged in the early 2010s: more Americans than at any previous point were formally renouncing their United States citizenship, and taxes were a central reason why. The numbers, while still smal...

Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned abruptly, with the company announcing that an internal investigation had found evidence of an "inappropriate relationship" with a female employee. The departure was swift and the circumst...

The arrival of 3D printing technology in the consumer food space began, appropriately, with chocolate — a substance that is solid at room temperature, melts predictably when heated, and resolidifies cleanly, making it am...

The King of Twitter is now the King of Apple, as "Two and a Half Men" star Ashton Kutcher is attached to play Steve Jobs in the indie pic "Jobs," which Joshua Michael Stern ("Swing Vote") will direct from a script by Mat...

Fraudulent marriage arrangements in which siblings or other relatives pair up with foreign nationals willing to participate in exchange for payment—creating immigration paperwork supporting a spousal visa application wit...

The camera industry was confronting a genuinely disruptive question by 2012: had the smartphone camera become good enough that most people no longer needed or wanted a dedicated camera? The iPhone 4S, with its 8-megapixe...

Electronic tablets like the iPad are a revolutionary educational tool and are becoming part of childhood, but should be watched carefully so that overuse doesn't lead to learning or behavioral problems, experts say. "It'...

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Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged in France on Monday with "aggravated pimping" for his alleged participation in a prostitution ring, prosecutors said. He is not allowed to have...

Moves toward international recognition of Indian engineering degrees — the BTech qualification awarded by Indian universities and institutions — represented a significant development for Indian graduates seeking employme...

Reports and photographs documenting Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump posing with slain wildlife during a hunting trip to Zimbabwe — including images with an elephant, a crocodile, and other animals — generated a significa...

Greg Smith's resignation from Goldman Sachs became one of the most discussed moments in modern financial industry culture when the 12-year Goldman veteran published his letter of resignation in the opinion pages of the N...

India's Supreme Court rejection of Novartis's patent application for Gleevec—a leukemia drug that costs tens of thousands of dollars annually in Western markets—represented the most significant assertion of a developing...

Apple's third-generation iPad arrived with specifications that seemed designed to answer every criticism of its predecessors simultaneously. The headline feature was the Retina display — a 2048 x 1536 pixel screen with 2...

A Michigan man filed a lawsuit against AMC Theaters challenging the legality of the chain's policy prohibiting moviegoers from bringing outside food and beverages into the theater — a policy that, in his view, amounted t...

With her silk scarves and immaculate make-up, Ding Yu looks every inch the modern television presenter. Indeed, for the past five years she has hosted a hugely successful prime-time show in China which has a devoted foll...

Prem Ganapathy arrived in Mumbai from Tamil Nadu in 1992 with almost nothing. The story of how he built Dosa Plaza — a chain with dozens of outlets across India and abroad, generating revenues in the tens of crores — is...

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Manoj Bhargava, the reclusive founder and CEO of 5-hour Energy, occupies one of the more unusual positions in American business: he is almost certainly one of the wealthiest people in the United States, worth an estimate...

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Research examining consumer behavior patterns found a measurable correlation between alcohol consumption and online purchases—specifically, that people who drink and shop online spend more, buy more impulsively, and are...

When white leaders succeed, people often say it is because they are competent. When black leaders succeed, people say it happened despite their incompetence. At least, that's what two business-school professors found aft...

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It was not a chant that many had ever expected to hear, as up to 50,000 Russians from all walks of life stood, the snow falling steadily upon them, a few hundred yards across the Moskva river from the Kremlin. "Russia wi...

The European Commission fined eight consumer goods companies a combined €315.2 million in 2011 for operating a price-fixing cartel in the laundry detergent market, exposing years of clandestine coordination between compa...

Social networking site Facebook will now have an employee from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi. After trying - and failing - to recruit students from the institute last year, Facebook came back to the campus thi...

The remarkable success of Indian-origin executives at the helms of global companies — from Microsoft to Google to IBM to Pepsi — has generated considerable analysis about what, if anything, distinguishes their leadership...

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In the autumn of 2011, the European sovereign debt crisis reached a pitch of intensity that had serious economists and policymakers openly contemplating what had previously been unthinkable: the possible dissolution of t...

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In a big-ticket policy decision, the cabinet on Thursday opened the high-growth retail sector to foreign chains. That means people can soon shop at international department stores such as Walmart, Carrefour and Tesco in...

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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's decision to overturn Labor Party policy and allow uranium sales to India represented a significant shift in Canberra's nuclear non-proliferation stance and a recognition that Ind...

NSW Police and the Fair Trading Department continue to seek the operators of a company organising school formals who have gone to ground owing a six-figure sum, most of it to school leavers. Students from at least 15 sch...

Reports of boardroom tension at PepsiCo surrounding CEO Indra Nooyi's strategic direction sparked speculation about whether the long-serving chief executive's position was at risk. Nooyi, who had led the company since 20...

In the days after Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011, the world received tributes from colleagues, competitors, and admirers across every corner of the technology and creative industries. But perhaps the most intimate po...

The world's most expensive home is lying unused and abandoned because its billionaire owners believe moving in will bring them bad luck. The 27-storey, billion-dollar tower in Mumbai, called Antilia, is said to have fall...

By the time Occupy Wall Street's encampment at Zuccotti Park was cleared by New York City police in November 2011, the media narrative about the movement had calcified into a set of impressions that were, at best, incomp...

LONDON - Protesters inspired by the growing 'Occupy Wall Street' movement in the U.S have today taken over the City of London. Thousands have descended on the area known as the Square Mile - under the banner 'Occupy the...

When the Commonwealth heads of government meet in Australia later this month, one prominent leader is almost certain to be conspicuously absent: India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. India is a strong backer of the asso...

Across four of the world's most consequential societies — China, India, the United States, and Europe — the first years of the second decade of the 21st century brought wave after wave of social unrest. The forms varied:...

Long before Steve Jobs gave his celebrated 2005 Stanford commencement address — the one where he spoke about death as "life's change agent" — he had already articulated a striking version of the same idea in a 1985 inter...

The owner of an Iowa convenience store chain has been called "the boss from hell" by a former worker who claims he offered prize money to employees who predicted which of their colleagues would be fired next. A judge dec...

Youth The Jobs family Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco. His biological mother was an unwed graduate student named Joanne Simpson, and his biological father was a political science or...

When Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S in October 2011, the announcement disappointed many observers who had expected a radical design overhaul — the device looked identical to its predecessor. But a closer examination of the...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

The protests against corporate America, which began in New York City two weeks ago, have spread across the country, with demonstrations occurring in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Seattle. Sparked by the Occupy...

A case at a New York City hospital sparked pointed debate about immigration policy and healthcare obligations when it emerged that the hospital had spent approximately $1.4 million providing medical care to an undocument...

Reebok learned an expensive lesson about the gap between marketing promises and product reality when it agreed to pay $25 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it had made false and unsubstantiated clai...

Friend lose a job? Hallmark wants to help With unemployment numbers staying high, there's a new way to reach out to someone who may have lost their job. In the business of selling sentiments, there's a card for everythin...

On the evening of April 6 this year, John Halford packed his suitcase and left it outside the door of his cabin on the cruise liner Thomson Spirit. It was the last day of a week-long Egyptian cruise and the ship was due...

Lady Gaga attended a fundraiser with the president on Sunday night, according to a White House pool report, and she raised the issue of suicide and bullying of gay teens. The report describes her as wearing enormous heel...

Apple doesn't often fail, and when it does, it isn't a pretty sight at 1 Infinite Loop. In the summer of 2008, when Apple launched the first version of its iPhone that worked on third-generation mobile networks, it also...

The initial public offering process is often portrayed as a celebration — the moment a private company graduates to the public markets, raises capital, and lets early investors finally cash out. But for many companies, t...

Reed Hastings made his fortune with one exceedingly smart insight: People would pay a lot to escape video-store late fees. Ever since, the Netflix founder and CEO has devotedly sought out and implemented clever ideas for...

Buying a ( is a decision that most ( can take after weighing the pros and cons of various ( implications. But getting a property as inheritance is often not a choice, especially for first generation ( whose parents beque...

By now, it is well established that more and more employees are increasingly using their mobile handsets for work related tasks. There is no dearth of statistics on the web that will reinforce this if you are not yet con...

For generations, Procter & Gamble Co.'s growth strategy was focused on developing household staples for the vast American middle class. Now, P&G executives say many of its former middle-market shoppers are trading down t...

Economic projections published in the early 2010s generated significant debate when they suggested that China's economy could reach twice the size of the United States' by 2030 — a forecast that seemed extraordinary at t...

Once a Leader, Yahoo Now Struggles to Find Its Way ( has been one of the most-visited sites on the Internet since its glory days as a Web portal. Yet as the rest of the Internet moved on to social networks and mobile dev...

US falls to 5th in global competitiveness, survey shows The U.S. has tumbled further down a global ranking of the world's most competitive economies, landing at fifth place because of its huge deficits and declining publ...

Old Navy occupies a specific retail niche — affordable basics, frequent sales, accessible style — and within that niche it is genuinely useful. The mistake that many shoppers make is treating it as a store where everythi...

India's most consequential export may not be software, pharmaceuticals, or textiles. It may be CEOs. The Banga brothers are the most visible current example of a phenomenon that has been quietly reshaping global corporat...

One Sunday morning, January 6th, 2008 I was attending religious services when my cell phone vibrated. As discreetly as possible, I checked the phone and noticed that my phone said "Caller ID unknown". I choose to ignore....

Delhi is one of the world's great cities of becoming — a place that has reinvented itself so many times across its long history that the question of what it is becoming now carries particular weight. As India's economic...

Hurricane Irene sent East Coast shoppers into stores to stock up on essentials this week, instead of the clothes, notebooks and other supplies that retailers were counting on selling as children get ready to go back to s...

The notion that a car dealership could be a genuine social destination sounds improbable, but Lexus of Naperville appears to have achieved something close to it — establishing itself as a gathering place for the area's S...

Fast-food deliverymen 'often offered sex instead of cash' A new study has found that pizza and other fast food deliverymen often get offers of sex sessions as one of the alternatives to cash payments. A poll for online r...

Economic Policy and Development: India's Evolving Path India's economy has undergone dramatic transformation in recent decades. Understanding this transformation and ongoing debates is essential for informed citizenship....

Google has added voice search capability to its Chrome browser, allowing users to initiate searches by clicking a microphone icon and speaking their query rather than typing it. The feature, which brings to desktop compu...

Groupon Stumbles in China, Closes Some Offices SHANGHAI - A wave of layoffs at Gaopeng.com, the Chinese arm of US-based Groupon Inc, signals a dramatic turnaround for a company that just months ago aimed to dominate Chin...

Housing prices - done dirt cheap: The three-bedroom homes that can be yours for as little as $5,000 For a prospective homebuyer, $5,000 may not buy much, but in one U.S. city, a dream home can be yours for just that amou...

The luxury baby products market has expanded steadily even through periods of general economic contraction, driven by demographics—older, higher-earning first-time parents, smaller family sizes concentrating spending on...

The cultural prescription for career success has long included passion as a near-obligatory ingredient. Find what you love, do what you love, bring your whole self to work. It is advice given freely, received eagerly, an...

Vinod Rai has a good first serve. He takes full advantage of his over six-foot frame to smash the ball across the court. The opponent, a colleague of his, has to receive the ball at an uncomfortable height. It is not com...

If you use Internet Explorer, your IQ might be below average--at least, according to one study. AptiQuant, a "psychometric consulting" firm that provides hiring exams for businesses, gave online IQ tests to more than 100...

What did Larry Summers really think of the Winklevoss twins? "Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind," the former president of Harvard said in an interview at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech co...

Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? If you aren't sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy...

The phone-hacking scandal that engulfed News International in 2011—revelations that journalists at the News of the World had hacked into the voicemails of murder victims, terrorism survivors, and members of the royal fam...

It wasn't her beer. Monique Lawless had nothing personal at stake when she saw three men leaving a Walmart store in Alvin with three cases of beer they didn't pay for. She was a customer, not an employee, of the store. Y...

When Groupon turned down a reported $6 billion acquisition offer from Google and announced plans for an initial public offering, the business press responded with a mixture of excitement and skepticism that, with the ben...

Youngsters leave cushy jobs to take up farming Thirty-five-year-old Gaurav Sahai prefers the rhythmic, rugged beat of his recently purchased power tiller to the soft purr of the Honda Accord he was driving in the US only...

They were, until recently, among the most visible women in Indian corporate and political circles — accompanying their husbands to Davos, attending charity galas in Delhi, appearing in the society pages of magazines that...

The foreclosure pipeline that built up during the 2008-2012 housing crisis continued working through the American housing market long after the acute phase of the financial crisis had passed, with millions of properties...

The mobile phone industry is in the middle of a transformation that its own executives are struggling to manage gracefully. The shift is not subtle: voice calls, the service that wireless carriers built their entire busi...

The structural transformation of American employment toward contingent work—temporary contracts, freelance arrangements, project-based hiring—has been underway since the 1980s but accelerated substantially in the years f...

Harvard Business School is expanding its executive education offerings in China to meet growing demand for management instruction there, says David Yoffie, senior associate dean of executive education at Harvard. The sch...

The rush for merchandise celebrating the killing of Osama Bin Laden has seen one young entrepreneur make $120,000 in less than two days. Maurice Harary, 23, set up his T-shirt website Osamadeadtees.com as soon as he hear...

Research on corporate advancement consistently identifies attributes that predict executive success with more accuracy than technical competence alone—patterns that emerge from studying the careers of those who reach the...

For three decades, China's formula seemed unbeatable: invest heavily in infrastructure, manufacturing, and export capacity, and let growth take care of the rest. It worked spectacularly. China lifted hundreds of millions...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Reverse brain drain to rule global trends in coming years One of the top mega trends that will influence and shape the world in the coming years would be reverse brain drain , with a steady flow of foreign nationals and...

Dilbert creator Scott Adams's argument that American high school curricula should prioritize practical business skills over traditional academic subjects — including art history and calculus — landed in a familiar debate...

LinkedIn's announcement in 2011 that it was extending its social infrastructure across the broader web — adding a suite of plugins that allowed websites to display LinkedIn profile information, recommend connections, and...

Call-center company 24/7 Customer Pvt. Ltd. is desperate to find new recruits who can answer questions by phone and email. It wants to hire 3,000 people this year. Yet in this country of 1.2 billion people, that is begin...

Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata and Niira Radia were on Monday quizzed in connection with 2G spectrum scam by Parliament's PAC whose head MM Joshi said the panel found the industrialist candid and the corporate lobbyist "e...

Amazon.com's (AMZN) squat Seattle headquarters looks nothing like the country club affairs found in Silicon Valley. There are no free soft drinks or volleyball courts. The light fixtures hanging from the ceiling in the r...

Rajat Gupta's fall from the pinnacle of corporate America arrived in the form of federal securities fraud charges that, when the full arc of the case became clear, constituted one of the most consequential insider tradin...

JCPenney's search engine ranking collapsed in February 2011 after a New York Times investigation revealed that the retailer had been benefiting from a massive link-buying scheme—a violation of Google's webmaster guidelin...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

It is almost two years since the German Government had passed on the names and bank account details of eighteen Indians who had stashed their alleged ill-gotten wealth in the LGT bank of Liechtenstein, a well-known tax h...

Here is a very interesting interview of Steve Jobs after he was just kicked out of Apple in 1985. He doesn't beat around the bush on getting fired and his disappointment. However what's even more remarkable is how he has...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

When Verizon takes the stage at Lincoln Center in New York tomorrow to share the "latest news" with us, it's almost a given that it's going to be the long-awaited iPhone on Verizon's network. The press conference is goin...

Good folks at Linkedin did some analysis and have given us a list of words to avoid. Interestingly the Indian habit of calling people Dynamic has crossed over to internet as well. Americans on the other hand have the emp...

A darkly comic piece of internet culture in 2010 juxtaposed three things that seemed, at first glance, to have nothing in common: Goldman Sachs, the Nigerian advance-fee scam, and the endless parade of Facebook quizzes a...

Goldman Sachs entered 2010 as one of the most admired and most reviled institutions in American finance simultaneously — a distinction that required a particular kind of excellence to maintain. The firm had navigated the...

It may seem like airlines have thought of every possible way to squeeze more money out of air travelers, charging extra for everything from early boarding to checking bags. But hold on to your wallet: There's probably ro...

Suhas Gopinath When 14-year-old Suhas Gopinath started Globals Inc ten years ago from a cyber cafe in Bengaluru, he didn't know that he had become the youngest CEO in the world. Today, Globals is a multi-million dollar c...

In December 2010, in the chaotic weeks following WikiLeaks' release of hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables, a loosely organized network of hacktivists calling themselves Anonymous launched a series of distributed...

In a country where a month's salary for many workers barely touches ten thousand rupees, the news that a single chemist shop in Mumbai was paying rent of ₹42 lakh per month — roughly $90,000 at 2010 exchange rates — was...

Five years ago, Shop.org published a press release: "While traditional retailers will be monitoring store traffic and sales on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), online retailers have set their sights on somethin...

Credit default swaps (CDS) measuring risk on German, French and Dutch bonds have surged over recent days, rising significantly above the levels of non-EMU states in Scandinavia. "Germany cannot keep paying for bail-outs...

The job interview is a peculiar institution. It asks two parties who have never met to assess each other's suitability for a relationship that will define a significant portion of each party's waking life, typically over...

Mighty US Dollar is about to go the same way of once mighty British Pound. China daily reports that China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Pr...

Having settled Ireland, next big scare is what if this was not enough As Wall Street Journal reports - Contagion once again emerged in Europe as investors turned from Ireland's debt crisis and set their sights on Portuga...

So what will you really miss out on if you buy a handset without 3G? Well, no prizes for guessing, faster internet speeds. Although 2.5G (or EDGE) internet may be enough for text-based data transfers like emailing, chatt...

Ireland's request for an €85 billion international bailout in November 2010 followed a trajectory that analysts of the eurozone debt crisis had seen before: a country whose government had made commitments that its econom...

The Social Network, David Fincher's film about the founding of Facebook, arrived in October 2010 to widespread critical praise and commercial success, and almost immediately generated a debate that the film itself seemed...

The handwriting teacher who arrives in a classroom with a box of sharpened pencils is making, among other things, a statement about what kind of learning she believes will happen in her classroom that day. The pencil — i...

If the company invites you to an interview, that means the job is still open. Alas, no. In fact, the job may never have existed in the first place: "Some companies use 'interviews' to do market research on the cheap. The...

The social prohibition against discussing salaries with colleagues operates to the consistent benefit of employers and the consistent disadvantage of employees, and the evidence that this is not a coincidence but a desig...