For any economy, infrastructure is the backbone of the growth. It affects the aggregate output in two major ways- firstly contributing to GDP and secondly by increasing total factor productivity. Thus, it can be considered as a complement to...

The entry of Indian brands and the surge of the aspiring Indian middle class have boosted the furniture retailing in India. NCAER report has said that India will have a middle class population of 267 million by 2015-2016 with...

Abstract:  Typically, innovation is seen more as an offering in the form of a new product/ service, whereas a Business Model Innovation (BMI) deals with an innovation that provides companies with an advantage to not only compete on the...

Any tech geek must be asking himself the same question over the last four weeks- Where is Apple heading? The much anticipated September 10th Apple event did not quite meet the expectations of analysts and Apple fans the world...

True to the maxim by Philip Kotler- “Marketing takes a day to learn.  Unfortunately it takes a lifetime to master”, all the companies try to achieve the best of the marketing practices in this vicious world. If one looks...

Let me run the time machine in reverse direction to second half of 2000s i.e. 2006-2008, when the so called Short Messaging Service known as SMS was still the most preferred type of communication amongst all classes. Be it...

Marketing is the social and organizational process through which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want by creating, communicating and freely exchanging products of value with each other.    People define marketing in different ways based on their perceptions....

“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” -Henry David Thoreau, Familiar Letters The quote above speaks volumes about the topic in hand and points us at the right direction -our...

It was not an easy decision to make when I was offered a platter of courses during my MBA. There was high paying Finance, dynamic and glamorous Marketing, Techno-freak Systems, Brawny Operations, and then in the end, the bratty,...

Indian textile industry can be divided into several segments, some of which can be listed as below: -Cotton Textiles -Silk Textiles -Woolen Textiles -Readymade Garments -Hand-crafted Textiles -Jute and Coir   Some of the other important salient features are following:- Textile industry...