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Love Your Job : Extract of Mr. Narayana Murthy's speech during mentor session I know people who work 12 hours a day, six days a week, or more. Some people do so because of a work emergency where the long hours are only temporary. Other people I know have put these hours for years. I don't know...

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Life lessons from Narayana Murthy N R Narayana Murthy, chief mentor and chairman of the board, Infosys Technologies, delivered a pre-commencement lecture at the New York University (Stern School of Business) on May 9. It is a scintillating speech, Murthy speaks about the lessons he learnt from...

You've Got To Find What You Love This is text of a speech by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University. I'm sharing it here and hoping that few young souls might find it enlightening... “I am honoured to be with you...

Live out your dreams, not your degree Vikas Tandon Let me first get one major grouse out of the way -- why is work experience still not an eligibility criterion for admission to a management programme? The one thing that B-school does teach you is that what you learn, understand and assimilate...

'Golden' management lessons from Titan Swarna Ganesh has attended over 100 weddings in his hometown Erode in Tamil Nadu in the past year. He is a little anxious about the weight he has gained, but Ganesh isn't really complaining. As the franchisee of Titan Industries' Gold Plus chain of...

Do You Need to Be Ruthless to Succeed? Not if you want to grow a business, earn the trust and commitment of employees and customers, and create sustained bottom-line profits. By Alex Hiam September 30, 2002 In this column, I want to rant and rave about what I view as a destructive...

Leadership lessons from George Washington By Mark Goulston and Kevin Gregson, FastCompany Friends, And Fellow Citizens The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your...

8 principles of visionary leadership Among the various roles and skills of a CEO, the most important is perhaps his ability to observe things. He should be able to sit at the periphery of his organisation and observe, and then get back and act upon his observation. F Zobrist, CEO of FAVI...

4 life skills b-schools don't teach By Prakash Iyer It was the summer of '86. And as I, and the rest of the graduating batch, walked out of the hallowed portals of WIMWI (ah, the Well-known Institute of Management in Western India), you could sense that we were probably echoing Bryan Adams'...

Here I will be posting articles which relate to management & business. Here is the first one... ------------------------------- 3 lessons B-schools miss teaching Business schools are great! They add value to students' education by actively providing insights into the learnings and practices of...

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When companies come for final placements to BSchools what are the factors they look for in candidates(besides marks)? What factors can make a CV standout so that a candidate can be selected for the interview (besides marks)? I am gng to spl in Finance (IB & Banking) My marks are not so good...

The company may also need funds to expand...so capital structuring & raising may also be an option...

I am currently pursuing my MBA after abt 4 years of wrkg. I plan to take up finance in my 2nd year...In finance plan to take up IB & Banking. What i wanted to kno is frm an HR perspective(for final placements)...do completing any of the additional courses & programs really add value? how do...

The company manufactures a/c components & Refrigeration products primarily for industrial/commercial use. It was loss making primarily due to poor management. Production used to be low & due to poor management of inventory the production used to get stalled on many occaisons. Also the cost of...

I have got a summer internship frm a mid-sized manufacturing co. It has just turned around. I had applied for an internship in finance, they have asked me to submit some proposals for the internship project which will help the company...I am looking to do Investment Banking & Banking in finance...

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I am dng a project on the following topic...I have got some information on brand commoditisation...but with regards to the importance of marketing in the backdrop of brand commoditisation i have got no information... could II have some suggestions as to how I should proceed with this... "As...

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