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Video meetings have turned the lens on what lies behind us
From carefully curated backgrounds to pre-recorded options, experts are cropping up everywhere to show us ways to strike a balance between ambience, aesthetic, and right virtue signalling.
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What companies can learn from Liverpool’s growth stall
A slump after a spectacular success is a fairly common occurrence - across individuals, teams, institutions and even companies. The reasons for this 'growth stall' are usually internal.
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Remembering Russi Mody, corporate India’s original maverick
Rustomji Homusji Mody joined Tata Steel as an office assistant. By the time he left, he had quadrupled the company's production capacity and set the tone for India's nascent human resources practice.
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Will the pandemic lead to big cities losing some of their lustre?
Will more people choose the less complicated life of the village now? Or could the pandemic trigger the big declutter in cities, with better infrastructure for those whose priorities are different?
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India needs its moonshot diviners
When the best individuals and companies chase radical - seemingly impossible - ideas to solve problems that affect millions, even billions, of people, that's called a moonshot.
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Are you who your mail address says you are?
An ill-considered email address can have lasting consequences. Here's what not to do when signing up for a new mail account.
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Work from home and rest in office
With WFH here to stay, companies must devise ways to separate the home and office again.
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Why don't cars in India come with Indian names?
The short answer: most car makers believe that the aspirational values that come with buying an automobile in India are best addressed by foreign-sounding names.
BUSINESS
How NIIT and others pioneered computer training
The private training institutes sensed an opportunity in this and showed great foresight in anticipating that there was an industry in the making which would need thousands of young people even if they had rudimentary computing skills.
BUSINESS
The near-death of online retail 20 years ago
From the ashes of the collapse in the late 1990s emerged today’s vast e-commerce retail market which stood at $30 billion in 2019.
BUSINESS
Rahul Bajaj has shown the way for Indian business family patriarchs
Even as many Indian businessmen flamed out following ill-thought through forays into disparate businesses, the Bajaj patriarch stuck to knitting through the company’s healthy balance sheet and allowing it to constantly explore related opportunities.
BUSINESS
What is behind the cracks in the Hinduja Undivided Family?
The Hindujas, known as the Rothschilds of India, were a family that ate together and so stayed together. Now the billionaire brothers face the twin threats of embarrassing exposures as well as a fragmentation of the family fortune.
