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| BANNED! |
| 2008-07-05 02:24:56 |
IIPM - Admission Procedure Is I&B Ministry’s ad ban spree mere outrage at obscenity or a move to gag the industry? The thunder-down-under (read men’s jocks!) has been given a solid jolt by being served (legal) notice to stop the plunder and surrender to the august body called the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B). Two ads in this category – Amul Macho (ranked as Bakwaas ad by 4Ps B&M) and Lux Cozy have been alleged to have a ‘negative’ effect on zillions of tele-viewers and generally playing havoc with the very concept of ‘family viewing’!Coming ahead of the proposed broadcast bill – designed to control media outbursts of the wrong kind – the banning of these ads is being seen by many in ad-frat as sending out the wrong signals. Within the media indu...
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| High, wide…inside! |
| 2008-07-04 02:41:40 |
When IIPM comes to education, never compromise Indoor cricket to strike the winning sixer?Even as the world of sports has undergone sweeping changes in the past few decades, with newer avenues being explored by several organisations to harness potential talent that would set new benchmarks on the field, here is a brand, Neo, way to go about the entire exercise. Neo International Sports Academy (NISA), launched a year ago, is crafting inroads into the arena of sports training, marketing and management by promoting the unique concept of indoor cricket in the country.Mushtaq Khan, MD, NISA spoke to 4Ps B&M on this unique initiative. Some excerpts from the interview:Would indoor cricket work, when youngsters still play cricket in gullies?Gully cricket is not producing Ranji players and tes...
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| GOOGLE |
| 2008-06-12 01:57:08 |
Why Study Abroad When IIPM Gives You 3 global Advantages!Brand Google is soaring globally, but its India strategy clearly needs more punchEvery one loves the $144.6 billion giant Google! And why not, thanks to them, you have the world at your finger tips! It might have slipped fifteen places to a seemingly unimpressive number 37, but surely, with 53.7% of the world search-engine market share, it undisputedly stands tall and worthy to be called a brand that garners a swashbuckling $10.6 billion in revenues during 2006 (at a growth rate of 121.6%, since 2002). The year 2006 also witnessed quite a few acquisitions, starting with Google’s acquisition of YouTube – a popular video sharing website, making it a huge rage among the youth. Then in October 2006, ...
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| ‘Chai’ or ‘thanda’ what’s the global funda… |
| 2008-05-07 02:57:36 |
IIPM - Admission Procedure ... behind Tata Tea’s adieu to Glaceau and Coca Cola tying the knot instead?Rub Aladdin’s lamp and whoever the appearing genie is beholden to, can use his magical prowess to amass enormous power for himself. A throwback to those pages from Arabian Nights, in the 21st century corporate world, the genie has assumed the form of Glaceau or the US-based Energy Brands Inc.. Last year, the enhanced water maker was the global expansion genie for the 68- year-old Ratan Tata, who purchased 30% equity of Glaceau. This year, Glaceau stands testimony to Tata’s aborted dream. In contrast, for soft drinks major Coca-Cola, Glaceau was a distant dream, which would bring it into the reckoning as a serious non-fizzy drink maker. This year, the dream became reality, with Coca...
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| IIPM is A World of Career |
| 2008-04-24 02:13:19 |
LAST DATE FOR IIPM ADMISSIONS CLOSING IN Course commencing in August 2006>>> Send Email For Registration at info@iipm.edu ...
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| IIPM, GURGAON |
| 2008-04-24 02:03:34 |
IIPM, GURGAON“IIPM Gurgaon students will share the same world-class Placement and Faculty with IIPM Delhi!!”WORLD-CLASSEDUCATIONWITHWORLD-CLASSINFRASTRUCTURENOW ALSO INGURGAONTHE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANNING & MANAGEMENTFOR FREE PROSPECTUS RUSH TOADMISSIONS OFFICEIIPM Tower-1, Building No.- 29, Sector- 32, Gurgaon-122001AndIIPM Tower-2 Building No.- 79, Sector- 32, Gurgaon-122001WHAT WE TEACH TODAY OTHERS ADOPT TOMORROW For More IIPM Info, Visit Below....IIPM - Admission Procedure IIPM, ADMISSIONS FOR NEW DELHI & GURGAON BRANCHESARINDAM CHAUDHURI’S 4 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE IIPM...IIPM Economy ReviewIIPM :- Cicero's Challenge is going globalThe Indian Institute of Planning and Management (I...Time for Awards at IIPMSTUDENTS AGAINST CORRUPTION & KICKBACKS : SACKThe B...
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| If you Thought that the colour of success was red, blue or pink; think again, my friend! It’s positively Green... |
| 2008-04-11 01:28:45 |
IIPM, ADMISSIONS FOR NEW DELHI & GURGAON BRANCHESMadonna will “speak to the planet” at Wembley stadium in London. She would call for mass global change to reduce carbon emissions and to tackle the “climate crisis.” Former US Vice President, Al Gore, has turned into an environmental campaigner and has started a spectacular series of concerts across the world called “Live Earth” to raise awareness about global warming. The world’s biggest stars would perform across all the seven continents (even Antarctica!) to appeal to the world to reduce its “carbon footprints”.In fact, Carbon foot printing is the latest buzz among environmentalists. It is a way of measuring how much impact you, as an individual or a corporate, have on the earth in terms of units of carbon dioxide pr...
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| From bestsellers to blockbusters |
| 2008-04-03 23:54:54 |
Why Study Abroad When IIPM Gives You 3 global Advantages! Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code, Lord of the Rings, Gone with the Wind, et al were all bestsellers before they become thundering blockbusters. Not only these, the best of Hollywood cinema has been picked up from the best pot-boilers. But, when it comes to Indian films, such cases are few and far in between. However, cinema adaptations of books have seldom failed to work their magic at the box office. Fascinated by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay’s book Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray decided to portray it on silver screen. The film went on to become one of India’s most recognised films globally. When it comes to cinema inspired by literature, Bengali cinema boasts the maximum numbers – Devdas,...
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| Read between the lines |
| 2008-04-02 02:04:01 |
Why Study Abroad When IIPM Gives You 3 global Advantages!Potter’s swan song is taking the global literary world by storm. Is the Indian publishing Industry turning green? 4Ps B&M searches for the magic wand!For John, getting up early in the morning is an ordeal. If work or play require him to be up before the crack of dawn, he doesn’t sleep at all. July 20 is one such day in the life of John, a merchandising manager at one of the leading bookstores in the country. Midnight will mark the launch of the seventh and the last book of the Harry Potter series – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bookstores all over the country will pull up their shutters as early as 5 a.m. in the morning, only to be greeted by droves of eager fans waiting to lay their hands on the book before it’s ...
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| Dishy Doubts! |
| 2008-03-24 01:55:20 |
Why Study Abroad When IIPM Gives You 3 global Advantages!Arun Kumar Kapoor, Dish TV CEO on the trials & triumphs of the Indian DTH mart!Late last year, when Jawahar Goel – Additional Vice Chairman, Essel Group – went to Chandigarh, to wean away the then Hutchison Essar (South’s) CEO of Punjab Circle, Arun Kumar Kapoor, as the new CEO for Zee’s Direct-to-Home (DTH) venture, Dish TV, he hadn’t had the faintest idea of the responsibility he was taking on. Kapoor’s concerned wife, who stayed back in Chandigarh for some time, urged Goel to ensure that her husband remained ‘well fed’ in Delhi, despite her temporary absence. And ever since, the generous Goel makes it a point to invite the beleaguered Kapoor to share his home-packed lunch daily. And it’s easy, as the two shar...
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| Harry Potter and the India story |
| 2008-03-19 02:57:33 |
Why Study Abroad When IIPM Gives You 3 global Advantages!Warner Brothers has been going full throttle with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in India – make no mistake about that! So, to grab the imagination of the masses – and ensure that they come in hordes into movie theatres, fifth Harry Potter film has been dubbed in regional languages across the country. Warner Brothers has released 250 prints of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (the movie released on July 13). Of this, there are 75 prints in Hindi and 25 each in Tamil and Telugu; the remaining are in English. English versions of the film have hit markets like Mumbai, Goa, Pune, Bengalooru and Kolkata. English and Hindi versions have been re...
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| The Indian Telecom Sector |
| 2008-02-28 02:47:10 |
IIPM PUBLICATIONThe Indian telecom sector is unfolding a strange saga of unprecedented growth on one hand and some nonsensical interference from the ministry on the other hand. If everything goes as per the telecom ministry’s glorious plans, the time is not far when the telecom sector’s fantastic growth journey is smashed to extinction without even a ‘dumb’ hope of resuscitationRam Singh a labourer by profession, knows nothing beyond his paraphernalia and his daily target of digging the land. Along with a few coworkers, he is busy digging the pavement and putting in cables besides a road in the hustling city of Indore. As instructed by his the kedar, he is dumpi...
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| The Sensex rise and fall means |
| 2008-02-15 01:31:22 |
IIPM International Student Exchange Programme nothing at all...for the bottom disadvantaged 80% of IndiaThank god for the Sensex (and the Nifty and similar indices), that news channels and media houses have front page news to write about. And why not! Didn’t the Sensex reach giddying historical heights of 15,800 odd points and also had the second highest fall in history to languish below 14,000 points, all in the last few weeks? In reality, apart from being ‘front page news’, for whatever the news, media might be imagining, these indices mean nothing at all to the majority India.That’s no surprise, considering the fact that only a miniscule 4% of stock market investments are of retail investors, with 96% being in the hands of institutions! Consider t...
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| The Indo-Us Nuclear Deal |
| 2008-02-07 01:14:27 |
IIPM Mumbai Parables - Stories that change life Indo-US 123 Agreement. It solves the enriched uranium shortage that has hampered India’s nuclear programme for decades, pushing India down to 27 among the 30 countries using nuclear power.123 also preserves India’s right to reprocess the spent fuel from civilian reactors producing commercial power.While the agreement claims not to impinge upon India’s military strategic programme, it has been accorded the status of non-nuclear weapons state and if India chooses to conduct tests that are found to violate IAEA norms, the US has a right to terminate the agreement. But even this termination will have to be followed by a year’s notice.If the US goes ahead with the termination, it has a right of return ove...
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| When re-structuring becomes the key! |
| 2008-02-05 00:44:22 |
The Sunday Indian - India's Greatest News weekly Your focus has been the global market. Do you think Indian textile market doesn’t offer enough? Prior to 2000, the home market was not as profitable as it is today. So we were more into exports as 50% of our revenue accrued from exports. This was perhaps the reason. Mayur as a brand lost its popularity and our business in the country wasn’t doing well too. But now, with the domestic market growing at more than 30%, we are coming out with various ways of diversifying an capturing more domestic share.Like other textile giants, you too did not diversify at right time. Does this matter to you today?I agree that it took us some time to find out the potential areas. But I do not think it’s too late as the Indian market is growing and we have...
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| Global markets are changing – is India following suit?! |
| 2008-01-31 01:26:13 |
IIPM, ADMISSIONS FOR NEW DELHI & GURGAON BRANCHESThe market for textile products is witnessing significant changes. Competition from Asian suppliers has been increasing even in Western markets, whereas participants in their Regional Trade Agreements are losing ground. Domestic production in North America & Western Europe has been declining consistently during the last few years and their textile industries are projected to shrink mostly into high tech segments in the coming years. In India, the industry has experienced an impressive growth in terms of installed capacities. Exports have also recorded significant growth after abolition of bilateral quotas. However, certain developments during the last few months such...
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| Unleashing the superheroes within! |
| 2008-01-09 03:02:46 |
ARINDAM CHAUDHURI’S 4 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE IIPM... Chris Zook, Partner Bain & Company Companies that face turmoil must leverage on their inherent strengthsPeter Parker, alias Spider-Man, was about 15 years old when he first appeared in the 1962 comic book Amazing Fantasy No. 15.That would make the besieged photographer from the Daily Bugle close to 60 years old this spring, when he exploded on movie screens around the world with the release of “Spider-Man 3.” Perhaps even more marvelous is how the geriatric Parker also rescued Marvel Entertainment, the firm that created him. Not so long ago, Marvel’s financial fate hung by a thread. Spider-Man’s box-office might shows that superheroes are not the only ones with hidden powers. Businesses have them, too, in the form...
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| Heavy dut(t)y stress Sanjay Dutt Bollywood Actor |
| 2007-12-04 23:42:42 |
IIPM PUBLICATIONNo amount of working out will help relieve Sanjay Dutt from all the stress. After being burdened with court hearings time & again, followed by countless allegations & mindless gossip, the poor guy is weary to the bone. So much so, that a couple of his vertebrae bones have suddenly given away. The big guy has been in such agony that a trip to his doctor has become as routine as a trip to the gym. Someone give Sanju Baba a jaadu ki jhappi right this minute!For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM ArticleSource : IIPM Editorial, 2007An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) InitiativeFor More IIPM Info, Visit Below....! The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) ! IIPM: The Indian Inst...
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| English roses on Sunset Boulevard |
| 2007-11-07 02:09:25 |
IIPM MANAGEMENT INSTITUTEPirates and Mossgate: A tale of two Ks!Two British beauties – one who has ‘bent’ it in style in the UK movie scene and consequently Hollywood, and the other Moss who has gathered a few dazzling stones as she has rolled along in her ‘super’ modelling career. Together they represent the new wave of dazzling British celebrities and are proudly at the forefront as the most recognizable faces of that clique. We, if you have ignored the hints till now, are talking about Keira Knightley and Kate Moss. Kate Moss represented the new wave of super-models and was known almost as much for her pencil-thin figure as her drop-dead gorgeous looks. A face that has been worthy enough to launch the thousands of campaigns and dozens of top notch brands that it has, Kate star...
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| Relying on Mukesh |
| 2007-10-31 03:05:27 |
IIPM PUBLICATIONRIL is expected to continue on its aggressive growth path, and set new benchmarksWhen it comes to Indians and food, the word “Fresh” has a universal appeal, and smoothly supersedes every credible constriction construed under the sun. If it has to be eaten, by simple logic, ‘fresh’ is how the Indians love it.As Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) finally got off with its gargantuan retail foray in the financial year 2006-07 with a food retail chain named Reliance Fresh, a powerful connection was established for the incorrigible ‘freshness conscious’ Indian at the outset. A connection that is pan- Indian, just the way Mukesh Ambani plans to make Reliance Fresh a household name across India (RIL currently has 138 Reliance Fresh stores in place), which is, in turn, a ...
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| Ambitious Ambanis! |
| 2007-10-22 02:16:54 |
IIPM MANAGEMENT INSTITUTERead on to know the latest about India’s famed fable…If it’s true that Dhirubhai Ambani infused life into India’s moribund stock market, than it won’t be an exaggeration, if one were to conclude that both Anil & Mukesh have kept that life, that vigour & vitality very much intact.It’s the investors that have always stood by Reliance and that’s because of tremendous wealth created by both the brothers even after the de-merger of the business. The m-cap of Reliance Industries stood at Rs.1,153 billion, as on June 8, 2007 compared to Rs.683 billion a year ago, a smart 69% increase, what else could an investor ask for?For 2006-07, net profits of Mukesh Ambani controlled – Reliance Industries crossed Rs.10 billion mark. The turnover was up by 24% ...
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| Warming up for doomsday? |
| 2007-09-13 03:02:32 |
IIPM PUBLICATIONFrom an apt mix of heat and water paving the way for new life forms to this present state of global warming, human needs and technology have consistently given the earth an increasingly deadly makeover ever since we started rolling the first wheel. Are we drawing our doom closer?Mumbai Monsoon MadnessAlthough many fingers were pointed at Bombay Municipal Corporation for bad maintenance of sewage lines, it is unlikely that any amount of preparation could’ve helped on July 26 ’05. 37.2 inches of rain, all in a matter of 24 hours, brought the entire city and other parts of Maharashtra to a standstill. Such was the magnitude of the downpour that parts of Bengalooru and Rajasthan too were affected. Pune based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology did a study and found out...
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| Environmental risks?!?! Grrmph! |
| 2007-09-10 05:08:26 |
IIPM AlliancesGuess what! Companies are now refusing to reveal environmental risks!Now that the climate change discussions have moved from controversial to conventional, and economists expect the world to lose a mammoth 2.6% in terms of GDP this year due to extreme weather events (in fact, the loss in regional GDP will be a killingly massive 6% for the developing and South Asian nations by 2100 – see B&E issue dated February 22, 2007), the question that surfaces is how deep, financially, will the cut be in the global corporate world?Digest this! The most famous and recent survey conducted on S&P 500 companies by US based Ceres, the leading coalition of environmentalists and institutional investors, found out that only a quarter of the responde...
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| BRAND BUSTERS |
| 2007-08-31 05:03:19 |
IIPM PUBLICATIONThe following points are the prime criterion for selecting, short-listing and ranking the winning ads in this section:• Product positioning clarity• Clinching benefit to the brand• Presence of a power idea• Visibility of brand personality• Expectancy of communication• Single-minded focus of message• Reward to the prospect• Visually arresting• Painstaking craftsmanship Here’s the 4Ps B&M verdict for the fortnight ended May 22, 2007. First come the print ads, then the TVCs. Ready for a piece of action?BRAND: HutchHEADLINE: “I’m standing at the 107th floor balcony, sipping chai”BASELINE : Travelling abroad? Tell…………Hutch Home Calling Card.AGENCY : O&M4Ps TAKE : It’s summer time, and everyone loves the idea of going on a summer holiday! B...
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| IIPM Press Release :- “I’m Bad!” Gosh, really?! |
| 2007-08-06 04:39:45 |
IIPM AlliancesThey’ve known black, they’ve known white; wonder if “it don’t matter”?It’s not just the first name and the last syllable of the last name that Michael Jackson and Michael ‘Mike’ Tyson have in common। Two figures who have seen both the proverbial zenith and nadir of their careers under unprecedented media glare; both Tyson and Jackson remain, at worst vilified as celebrity villains and at best, personalities with strong affinity for controversy. Their talent is unquestionable, as is their penchant to surround themselves with situations so eccentric that they bordered on the fictional. Their lives have been full of events that tabloid and paparazzi fodder is made of and if their lives can be said to be running on parallel tracks, those tracks surely belong to ...
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| Who am I?!? |
| 2007-07-13 01:13:33 |
IIPM MANAGEMENT INSTITUTEChakmas have no nation... sadlyOn August 15, 1947, the Indian tricolour went up in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT); but fate, rather the British, had something else in store. Sir Cyril Radcliff e, head of the Boundary Commission, awarded the CHT to Pakistan. On August 18, the Pakistani army marched in, pulled down the Tricolour, and hoisted in its place the star and crescent Pakistani flag. The region has experienced trouble since then. In 1972, operations by the Bangladeshi army in the region led to a mass departure of Chakma refugees into the neighbouring Indian state –Tripura. Today, these Chakma refugees live in feeble settlements, while the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees does not consider them as refugees. All they receive from the Indian gov...
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| Spiderman creates history; yet again! |
| 2007-07-10 07:29:21 |
IIPM AlliancesMarking another glorious page in the history of Hollywood, Spiderman-3 has beaten all the previous records and captured the crown of ‘widest opening’, as it was launched in 4,252 theatres. It is also the highest first-day grosser in the North America. The previous record of The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($55.8 million) was outdone by Spiderman-3 as it amounted to a total collection worth $59.3 million. And yes, that’s not all, the aficionados have some more to look forward to from the kitty of Sony Pictures Entertainment, as already in plans is Spiderman-4.for complete IIPM info, click here Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management G...
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| Nokia nukes all competition! |
| 2007-07-07 04:29:49 |
IIPM PUBLICATIONWanna view slide shows while on the move but without the hassles of carrying a lap top? Then Nokia N95 is just for you. It’s equipped with a 5-megapixel camera and the Carl Zeiss optics facilitate real-life imagery. The gizmo also comes with a well-designed package that enables the user to browse the internet, listen to music, watch slide shows, all without compromising on any feature. And there’s more! This incredible phone has a search application whose service is available across 8 cities in India, giving location details of popular spots in each of those cities. Get ready to shell Rs 40,249 for this fully-loaded Nokia phone.For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM ArticleSource : IIPM Editorial, 2007An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chau...
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| Bank... of India & growth |
| 2007-07-03 02:53:03 |
IIPM MANAGEMENT INSTITUTEStrict credit monitoring, organizational restructuring coupled with various tools has helped the bankPrudence and caution are the only religions at Bank of India (BoI). A multi-pronged strategy of strict credit monitoring and organisational restructuring, coupled with various strategic tools, has helped the bank in attaining desired results. Consider their positioning: Bank of India – Rishton ki jamapoonji. Add to that some great advertising that tugs emotions and this bank is certainly going places. With a strong pan India presence and over 20% of its total business coming from overseas operations, BOI continues to sail smoothly on a strong growth trajectory. For F...
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| Nokia awakens from a deep slumber... |
| 2007-06-25 01:22:00 |
IIPM PUBLICATION ...launches low-cost handsets, but success is still far!In the 4Ps B&M issue dated 8-26 December, our cover feature titled Nokia – Disconnecting People, had talked about how Nokia’s over emphasis on hi-end models in the Indian market would not bear fruit and that the company should focus on the entry-level market. With competitors like Motorola and Sony Ericsson belligerently charging ahead on one hand and Nokia’s market share witnessing further dilution, on the other, the Finnish handset-maker seems to have realized the wisdom in our words. On May 3, Nokia launched not one, but seven new entry-level mobile handsets. Of these, Nokia 1200 & 1208 are aimed at first-time consumers, whereas, Nokia 1650, 2660 & 2505 are CDMA-based hand...
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| Spidey casts a magic web |
| 2007-06-20 05:46:45 |
IIPM MANAGEMENT INSTITUTESpider-Man 3 is already on the prowl and has been doing some great business globally (having had the best ever opening on Tuesday in countries like France, Italy, South Korea and Hong Kong). In all, it has already picked up $29.15 million in 16 overseas markets and has beaten the opening day collections of the previous two “Spider-Man” films in each market. In India, the movie was released on May 4 and is doing well.For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM ArticleSource : IIPM Editorial, 2007An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative...
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| IIPM Press Release :- Stop! Red Light! |
| 2007-06-14 01:35:13 |
IIPM PUBLICATION Truckers to be careful on the highway... in ways more than one!AIDS is that four letter word that usually spells death or a short life of extreme pain, and not always physical alone, as the body withers away against the onslaught of the killer. With no known cure, the disease that has reached pandemic proportions in some parts of the world, is so debilitating that the infected are usually left with little option other than awaiting their fate – their final date with death. Against such a determined killer, the logical response should ideally be of similar, if not greater, magnitude but alas, from our political parties and busy ‘culture police’, that would be expecting a little too much.What happened in New Delhi on 16th April during a campaign to create awareness abo...
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| Singita Private Game Reserve, Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2007-06-13 03:17:21 |
Renowned Management Guru Finishing first in the Travel and Leisure awards, 2006, the Singita Private Game Reserve boasts of everything African with a tinge of the West to suit all penchants & proclivities.THE VIEW: Located in the spellbinding Sabi Sands area, the Singita Private Game Reserve is situated right in the heart of the Kruger National Park.ARCHI-TYPE: Comprising five luxury safari lodges in the heart of the pristine forests – the Ebony Lodge, the Boulders Lodge, the Castleton, Lebombo and the Sweni Lodge – Singita redefines ‘fierce’ magnifi cence by the hour!BON APPÉTIT: Countless cuisines abundant, the Singita kitchen remains fragrant all day long with delectable flavours and ingredients, typically African. And the wide array of exquisi...
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| Now you see it... |
| 2007-06-11 06:49:51 |
Renowned Management Guru...now you don't! Democracy still a mirage for BangladeshIt is not only the floods and droughts that cause havoc in Bangladesh. Politics too is capable of causing chaos at a decent enough scale to keep the country in a constant state of flux. For more than three decades after independence from Pakistan, the tiny South Asian nation has been struggling to establish a viable democracy based on the rule of law. The latest in the series of misfortunes afflicting Bangladesh relates to the stalling of the election process. Thanks to that, the very survival of the political parties and democracy is at stake.The army-backed puppet caretaker government, headed by former Central Bank chief Fakhruddin Ahmed, added a fresh dimension to the existing political turmoil by asking th...
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| Unleashing The Power Of Sound |
| 2007-06-07 01:57:20 |
Renowned Management Guru :- Professor Arindam ChaudhuriImagine you want a glass of water but are feeling very lazy and how nice it would be if you can lift the glass sitting at your place... Sounds like a sci-fi Hollywood movie? But it’s true! Acoustic levitation is the technology that can actually lift objects, fluids & gases with the help of sound. Used majorly by scientists, it is fast becoming commercially viable too. Though, till now, only 1 kg has been lift ed via acoustic levitation, but scientists claim that the technology has the potential to lift tons of weight. So the day is not far when we will transport goods with the help of acoustic levitation.For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM ArticleSource : IIPM Editorial, 2007 For more IIPM info, ...
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| IIPM : Fall Winter Admissions 2007-09/10 |
| 2007-06-02 06:38:49 |
"AT IIPM DIFFICULT WAS ALWAYS EASY…. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE THAT TOOK A LITTLE TIME!!” More info about IIPM (The Indian Institute to Planning and Management), E-mail :- info@iipm.edu IIPM website :- http://www.iipm.edu/ Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) ...
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| Reddy, Steady, Stop! |
| 2007-05-31 04:28:56 |
IIPM MANAGEMENT INSTITUTEAfter hiking the repo rate five times since June 2006 and Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) three times since December, the wisdom of supply side inflation finally dawned on the RBI Governor Y. V. Reddy. The monetary policy announced by RBI on April 24, 2007 was met by sighs of relief from consumers along with rejoices from the bankers. This time around, Reddy refrained from hiking repo, reverse repo rates and CRR; throwing the ball in P. Chidambaram’s court, as Inflation is still above the 6% mark. Apart from tackling the issue of inflation, RBI also expressed concern over rupee appreciation which is stronger by almost 6% since March and is a serious issue for India’s exports, especially for the IT companies.Aimed at restricting further appreciation of rupee, RBI annou...
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| IIPM Release :- A perspective change in ‘talent acquisition’ that pulled through and became the answer for ‘talent retention’ |
| 2007-05-24 03:09:10 |
IIPM BUSINESS & ECONOMY“The big challenge at Bausch & Lomb was that people engagement and retention needed a fresh introspection on the whole approach to talent acquisition,” says Uttam Ghosh, Head-HR of Bausch & Lomb Eye care (India) Pvt Ltd, while he takes us through the journey of attrition (not so admired by most organisations), and the turnaround the company brought about to consolidate its numero uno position in the Indian eye care industry. Bausch & Lomb concentrates on three businesses – Vision Care, Cataract and Refractive. Notably, the Vision Care division operates through distributors in the country, to service its ophthalmologists, optometrist, optical & chemist customers, while the key accounts for their Cataract and Refract...
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| ‘Coz we are so different! |
| 2007-05-18 02:23:18 |
IIPM MANAGEMENT INSTITUTEABN Amro & Barclays complementIt’s official now! In a deal worth a whopping $91.2 billion, which would go down as one of the largest in the financial services domain till date, Barclays has merged with Dutch banking giant ABN Amro. The newly formed entity will now be named as Barclays Plc. and will be one of the largest banking entities on earth, boasting an employee strength of 22,000 and a staggering customer base of 47 million.ABN Amro is also disposing off its consumer banking arm at the La- Salle Bank by selling it to Bank of America for $21 billion as a part of the deal. This revenue generated will be passed on to the shareholders of the new company through share buy-backs. Commenting on the merger during the announcement of agreement, John Varley, CEO, Bar...
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| Your yearly ‘fix’ |
| 2007-05-14 04:18:57 |
IIPM BUSINESS & ECONOMYFDs have become the most lucrativeFor all those who’ve been cribbing about interest rate hikes, take heart, as the liquidity crunch in the banking sector has forced banks to raise interest rates on fixed deposits too, in order to mop up more funds. As Sumit Bhasin, DM, RLBP, Kotak Mahindra puts it, “There has been a change in the CRR (from 5% to 6.5%), so in order to maintain reserves in the banks and for lending money, the Fixed Deposits rates needed to be increased.” As for customers, the high deposit rate scenario (touching 11.3% a year, for bulk deposits) presents a super opportunity. Higher returns, coupled with shorter lock-in periods and insurance freebies under the Deposit Insurance & Credit Guarantee Scheme, are making these offers more lucrative.But i...
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