Defining Debates Of 2011
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Vijay Govindarajan: Jugaad - A Model for Innovation
It is a word that has travelled from India’s hinterlands to the management lexicon. Meet Jugaad, the innovative workaround to complex problems. The problem arises when people start looking at it as a permanent solution
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Vijay Mahajan: Values vs.Valuations
Corporations are partly responsible for and have suffered the effects of the triad of crises — social, environmental and economic — that have hit the world since 2008. An ‘ideal’ corporation today would be one that takes care of society, employs a lot of people and is environmentally conscious
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Azim Premji: The Business of Ecology
The multiple debates over ecology are bound to be the defining issues of humanity over the next few decades. This would drive both risks and opportunities. Smart companies know that an improvement in ecology will determine economic sustainability. And whatever is ethical, whatever is good for the society, will eventually be good for business too
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Shashi Tharoor: War For Peace
Throughout history, men have waged war for power, wealth, land and occasionally over women. But rarely, except in the past two or three centuries have they gone to war to bring peace. Is peace really the raison d’etre for the wars being fought in different parts of the world? Or are the real reasons the same as history has taught us?
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T.N. Ninan: India's Newspaper Business is Not Disappearing Just Yet
Inflated newsrooms and the Internet caused the news business model to break down in the West
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Raju Narisetti: News and World Wide Web
As the Internet provided a platform for sharing news faster and wider with negligible distribution costs, the newspaper business models that leaned heavily on advertisers for revenues and an elaborate production and distribution infrastructure began to crumble
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Satyajit Das: Double-edged Dollar
An integrated international financial system certainly reduces economic sovereignty of nations, as the European Union experiment has shown. The issue is compounded by complex derivative instruments that are now arriving in developing nations like India. What is the risk that foreign capital packaged in complex instruments bring to local economies?
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Jaggi Vasudev: Spirituality and Secularism
No country lives with so many religions as India does. The conflict in the world today is between one man’s belief and another’s. It is not good versus evil as it is often projected to be