Response to Global Survey Indicates Greater Investment Risks Ahead
A recent survey by business consultants McKinsey & Co. suggests corporate managements should come up with new game plans, based on the lingering crises in global finance.
They say signals by players in the financial markets, as well as pundits and policy makers, are espousing an unreal
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With the placements season fast approaching, top B-schools across the country are to ensure they churn out as many entrepreneurs as possible.
They are forming entrepreneurship cells/clubs, collaborating with associations, organising lectures and seminars, besides arranging for consulting projects with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and non governmental organisations (NGOs).
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS),
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Many people dream of shedding the corporate life and starting their own companies. They imagine creating the next Google or Apple. From Steve Jobs to Bill Gates to Pierre Omidyar, many of the world's richest people on the Forbes Billionaires List started as entrepreneurs, so it's little wonder so many believe that's the path to
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RISING INCOMES: Due to a number of factors such as microfinance products, exemption from income tax, NREGA, mass media penetration, investment in rural infrastructure and the increased production of higher-value crops, disposable incomes in rural households are increasing, thus creating a positive scope for retail opportunity in rural India.
COMPARABLE GROWTH: The spending patterns of rural
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After contaminating the search results on major search engines such as Google and Bing, search engine optimisation (SEO) poisoning is set to pose a threat to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
SEO poisoning is a technique used by malware authors to mix rogue search results with legitimate ones. This attack, coupled with news items that are
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There is nothing better than a heartwarming thank-you note.
Writing powerful thank-you letters is not just a formality. Thank-you letters are marketing tools that can have tremendous value in moving your candidacy forward and positioning you above the competition. Although much of what you include in your thank-you letter may have already been communicated during your
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"Carry out all my demands or the entire country's electricity will be cut off." Is this another line from a suspense film, or is it a palpable threat made possible with a computer keyboard? "Today, there is a growing trend amongst hackers around the world to threaten national infrastructures for ransom," says Dr. Yaniv Levyatan,
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The World Wide Web is a portal containing billions of quality information, spanning resources from around the globe. Through the years, the internet has developed into a competitive business environment which offers advertising, promotions, sales and marketing innovations that has rapidly created a following with most websites, and gave birth to online business transactions and
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In a recent circular IRDA (The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India) has stated,
“We have reached a situation where the role of appointed actuaries has to be enhanced significantly so that general insurers are in a position to cope with public demand for non-life products and at the same time ensure the availability of
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Some of the frequently asked questions in Actuarial Interviews -
• Why do you want to be an actuary? How did you hear about actuarial science?
• What are your future plans/goals?
• Where do you see yourself 5/10/15 years from now?
• Why do you want to work in this company?
• Why are you applying for this
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Institute of Actuaries of India
Last Date for May 2010 Membership - 2nd January 2010
Last Registration Date for May 2010 Exams – Registration closes 12 weeks before beginning of the exams. (Approximate start date of May 2010 exams - 3rd week of May)
New Eligibility Criteria for 10+2 Students: From 2010 onwards IAI is giving a 10%
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After winning the recent general election with a thumping majority, the UPA (united progressive alliance) government has once again brought back the issue of disinvestment into limelight. A number of public sector undertakings (PSUs) are on the radar of government's disinvestment plan- either complete disinvestment or offloading a minority stake.
The names of some companies where
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The yawning gap between the compensation of senior management at public sector undertakings (PSUs) and their counterparts in the private sector was the key focus of the Pay Revision Committee (2nd PRC), headed by retired Supreme Court Judge M Jagannadha Rao.
As a part of its strategy to make PSU jobs financially rewarding, the committee of
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On Jan 5, Google did a very Apple-like thing. In a presentation at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., the 11-year-old search behemoth unveiled Nexus One, a stylish touchscreen smartphone that runs on the company's Android operating system, is sold through a Google-operated retail Web site, and greets the market with an advertising tagline ("Web
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It is usually the listed companies that figure on the radar of ET500. But Life Insurance Corporation of India is an exception. We cannot miss LIC, which is corporate India’s single largest shareholder and investor. For India Inc, it emerged as an investor of last resort at the peak of the global financial crisis. In
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Two brains are always better than one but it can be a challenge to bring people together at the workplace.
Many work processes can be done faster or more efficiently with team work rather than individual contribution. However, it can be a great challenge for the human resources department to build balanced and effective teams.
The advantages
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