Given the rapid and tectonic shifts in the business environment and ever-fresh challenges to management thinking, anything lasting over a year would appear an anachronism. However, in the last few years there have been issues that have dominated business conversations and continue to do so. I did a quick poll among a small group of...Read More
This anniversary issue looks at the future and we ask some leading Indian CEOs to share their vision of the workplace, impact of technology and finally, management principles that will lose relevance and those that will survive the test of time. Predicting the future has never been easy, always fraught with....Read More
In this perceptive profile of the chairman of Unilever, Kamini Banga discovers the qualities a leader needs, as well as the man behind one of the world’s largest companies. This Irishman who was recently awarded an English knighthood, is, by his own admission obsessed with “not letting people down”.....Read More
Beermakers in China and other developing markets saw their seasoned global brands go flat in the face of scrappy local rivals. What these companies learned the hard way is that the 86% markets behave differently from the 14% markets of developed nations.......Read More
Academic, businessman, consultant, CK Prahalad dons many caps. Named among the top ten management thinkers in the world in every survey for over ten years, CK Prahalad is a thought leader whose contrarian beliefs have impacted managers globally.....Read More
