The World Business Council for Sustainable Development in its publication “Making Good Business Sense” by Lord Holme and Richard Watts, used the following definition. “Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well [...]
You can find them almost everywhere. Myers-Briggs, Enneagrams, leadership styles, learning styles, communication styles, teaching styles, conflict management styles…all designed to classify or label people so they can better understand themselves and others. More and more training vendors are using style questionnaires as a basis for training and development. The question is: are they really [...]
Everyone wants to do well and thus everyone loves to know the secret of success. What will allow me to be first? How can I be guaranteed that this song will be a hit? What should I do so that this presentation is going to be loved? The fact of the matter is that there [...]
Internet marketing, also referred to as i-marketing, web-marketing, online-marketing or e-Marketing, is the marketing of products or services over the Internet.
Internet marketing ties together creative and technical aspects of the Internet, including: design, development, advertising, and sales.
Internet marketing also refers to the placement of media along many different stages of the customer engagement cycle through [...]
The iPhone, Facebook, and Google’s mobile operating system, Android, have been instrumental in developing a completely new business niche – the application, or ‘app’ for brevity.
Whilst these applications are often simple games or utilities, the growing popularity of social networks and the rapid uptake of mobile technology have helped some apps become household names. Farmville, [...]
Management courses at business schools have always been the subject of much debate and discussion. Schools have had to modify and adapt to constantly changing economic demands, but 2010 might just be the most game changing yet.
Today, we are well on our way to making core classes on ethics and sustainable business practices a real [...]
How should a government promote entrepreneurship? This column argues that providing support programs for targeted sectors or companies is akin to “picking winners ex ante.” A far better approach is to encourage competition in the financial sector that facilitates experimentation in the real economy. Governments should forget about picking winners and focus on picking the [...]
HE is the chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and co-founder of Infosys Technologies Ltd. THE CHALLENGE: The UIDAI, too, is like a start-up. My prior success in no way guarantees success in this world and if I don’t deliver then the consequences could be large.
For Rohini Nilekani life seems to have come [...]
A Nottingham County Surveyor, Edgar Purnell Hooley, discovered tarmac by accident in the early 20th century. He found a barrel of tar had spilled onto the road at a local ironworks. This had mixed with waste slag from the furnaces. The result was a dust-free, strong surface. Hooley created and patented the product that could [...]
Here is a good article which is targeted towards identifying the opportunities for power saving in a typical industrial setup.
A real nice read for all who believe in the statement that “Energy is future”
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