What Does, What a Firm Says, Say About the Firm?
What explains firm performance? Although various metrics have been developed to measure firm performance, measuring firm strategy has remained a...
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Moser Baer and OM and T Choosing a Strategic Partnership Mode
In the case study, "Moser Baer and OM&T: Choosing a Strategic Partnership Mode," set in the optical storage media industry...
Read moreThe Psychology of Decision Making in Acquisitions
Decision makers become risk-seeking both when they have enjoyed greater gains in the past and when they have suffered losses...
Read moreThe CSR Law: Enabling “Extraordinary” Business
In this paper, Ram Nidumolu, CEO of Innovastrat, USA, and Professor Sanjay Kallapur of the Indian School of Business, argue it is possible to treat CSR strategically while also complying with the new CSR provisions in the Indian Companies Act 2013. Without this strategic approach, CSR becomes only a compliance activity that may end up achieving neither corporate nor social purpose. They go on to suggest a new Responsible Business (RB) Framework, which if implemented properly, can enable companies to turn the new clause in the Indian Companies Act 2013, mandating them to spend at least 2 percent of the average net profi ts of the previous three years, into a driver for extraordinary business in India.
Read moreEntrepreneurial Firms: Coast On or Cash Out?
Environment impacts performance capabilities of entrepreneurial firms. BASED ON THE RESEARCH OF ANAND NANDKUMAR (ISB) AND ASHISH ARORA (DUKE UNIVERSITY)...
Read moreState of Family Togetherness in Indian Family Businesses
Indian Family Businesses form the ‘backbone’ of the Indian economy and hence there is a need to extend the life span of these family businesses so that the economy can continue to derive benefit from their contribution. Executive Director of Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise at ISB, Professor Kavil Ramachandran and Research Associate at the Centre, Navneet Bhatnagar, explore the meaning and state of family togetherness in Indian family businesses.
Read moreContinuity of Family Business Across Generations
Less than 30 percent of family businesses survive into the third generation of family ownership. Family businesses can go under...
Read moreOvercoming barriers to Women’s Leadership at the Village Level
Tarun Jain, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Indian School of Business; Lata Gangadharan, Professor of Economics...
Read moreThe Dark Side of Finance
As finance is about using other people’s money, opportunities to steal are strong (lots of money to be made), easy...
Read moreHow can Competitors share Data Opportunistically?
Is it ever beneficial for competitors to share data with each other? Professor Subodha Kumar throws light on how a...
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