Tag: business
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Traders and Tinkers: In Conversation with Maitrayee Deka
Some young shoppers – a generation of people brought up on a steady diet of Amazon, where just about anything and everything in the world can be ordered at the click of a button and delivered to your home the next day – might never have known the magic of trawling the narrow lanes of…
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Book Excerpt: Clash – Amazon vs Walmart
If studied closely, retail is fascinating phenomenon, especially the ways in which retail business has grown and evolved in the last few decades. Grand old-world bazaars, supermarkets, departmental stores, streetside weekend markets, swanky air-conditioned shopping malls and online shopping behemoths like Amazon – retail business has many avatars, each with its own set of strengths…
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Book Review: The Pursuit of Reputation
Let’s start with an honest admission. While I’ve worked as a journalist for most of the last 25-30 years, I have also worked in Public Relations and Corporate Communications for a few years. With a German car manufacturer, in Formula 1, with India’s only F1 and MotoGP circuit, and with a leading agency that’s headquartered…
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Book Review: The Geek Way
Who, exactly, is a ‘geek’? ‘The word geek is a term originally used to describe eccentric people. In current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit,’ says Wikipedia. And so, of course, you have car geeks, computer geeks, math geeks, book geeks and a thousand others…
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Book Review: The Fund
In India at least, Ray Dalio isn’t exactly a household name – unless you work in finance / investment banking, you might have no clue who he is. And yet, Dalio, Wall Street hedge-fund manager extraordinaire and billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates (the world’s biggest hedge-fund, which had US$168 billion under its management in 2022!),…
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Book Review: Breaking Twitter
Twitter and I have had a somewhat tumultuous relationship over the years. There have been times when I’ve been a committed Twit (Twitterer?) and have spent upwards of an hour on the platform every day. And there have been times when I’ve been off Twitter for months, repelled by barrage of bile – the unmitigated…
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Book Excerpt: Doing Business in Uncertain Times
As that hoary old proverb (or the 1985 Billy Ocean song, if you prefer that) says, ‘When the going gets tough, the tough get going.’ Indeed, business organisations can be resilient in many ways and most know how to weather tough times. But it’s important, in difficult times, for business leaders to exhibit exceptional skill…