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By Tonya Boone, Nalin Kant Srivastava and Arohini Narain In 2009 ITC Hotels launched its first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum Certified luxury hotel, the ITC Gardenia in Bengaluru. While it provided the highest levels of luxury, the Gardenia also became the largest LEED Platinum certified hotel in the world and the first LEED Platinum hotel in Asia. …
Read More »Honchos from a cross-section of private healthcare providers in India got together at ISB recently to brainstorm on the future of the sector. In emerging markets like India, health insurance and technology have emerged the game changers making healthcare accessible to more sections and geographies. But healthcare players need to foray into new markets and technologies with caution if they …
Read More »Bhagwan: It is a great opportunity to talk to Lars after many years. So let me start by talking about your Nobel Prize. When we heard about the news, of course we were delighted but not surprised that you got that prize. And the students asked me, why Gene Fama, Rob Shiller and Lars Hansen? And my answer was maybe …
Read More »Based on the case study authored by Raveendra Chittoor and Geetika Shah Set in April 2014, the case describes the key challenges faced by the Azim Premji Foundation and outlines the importance of scale, strategy and effective execution in achieving its goals efficiently. The case highlights the challenges of building a large, professionally managed not-for-profit organisation and the strategic decisions that …
Read More »Inaugurating a new flyover or metro rail may be a better photo op than cleaning it, but it's a compromise on maintenance that may be responsible for Indian cities getting regularly submerged In the recent past, we have seen several examples of a city virtually going under water after one heavy downpour. The most recent was in Delhi, when even US …
Read More »While it is heartening to note that Indian policymakers seem to have realized the importance of manufacturing in providing jobs, it is also equally important to realize that the path leading to higher manufacturing employment has to necessarily cross a difficult bridge called labour reforms. Careful research done by several leading economists using nationwide plant-level data and also employing cutting-edge …
Read More »Companies can hire from two buckets: rookies or seasoned employees. How do companies decide whether to hire rookies or seasoned employees? In this video, Professor AJ Chauradia explains that this decision depends on the capabilities of the company in terms of the support system it can provide to the employees it hires. Professor AJ Chauradia is an Assistant Professor of Strategy …
Read More »Antibiotics are hailed as life-savers and miracle drugs. Then, why would pharmaceutical companies back out from the production of new antibiotics? Professor Mukesh Eswaran says they are doing so because they are spending their money on more profitable drugs such as lifestyle drugs. Using his research, Professor Mukesh Eswaran sheds light on this issue and related issues of profitability and …
Read More »Should the gatekeepers of a firm be hired and paid by the very firm they are to watch over? A new study evaluates the common belief that there is a fundamental conflict of interest in the hiring and firing of auditors by clients. Based on the research of Gil S. Bae, Sanjay Kallapur and Joon Hwa Rho The hiring and firing of …
Read More »Firms will benefit by having a better understanding of the search behaviour of their inventors, which in turn helps them optimally utilise their knowledge resources. Firms operating in knowledge-based industries conduct extensive R&D activities, in the process creating a huge knowledge base. The important question is how to optimally utilise this knowledge base. Snehal Awate, Assistant Professor of Strategy at ISB, …
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