Thought Leadership
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The Role of Urban Cooperative Banks in Financial Inclusion
What is the future of Urban Cooperative Banks (UCBs) in the sphere of commercial banking institutions? This article discusses the advantages that UCBs have over conventional banks as well as the challenges they need to overcome to elevate their status and promote financial inclusion
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Mimicry: The Latest Negotiating Strategy
Negotiating online? New research shows that imitating your counterpart’s writing style can help seal you a better deal, proving that imitation is indeed the better part of flattery…
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Microfinance Lenders: To Profit or Not To Profit
Microfinance has been touted as an instrument that can raise the incomes of those living below the poverty line. But, can the Microfinance Institutes (MFIs) also make profit while �doing good?� Professor Krishnamurthy Subramanian compares the nonprofit and for-profit MFIs to examine whether profit maximisation by an MFI compromises on its social objectives
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Protecting Against The Pirates of Bollywood
A potential link between the disappointing box-office receipts and intellectual property (IP) law
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Why Microfinance Is A Different Kind Of Finance
How could one company evade the economic crisis practically unscathed? What made this model so different from any other?
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Three Disciplines To Beat The Merger Performance Odds
Mergers fail for several reasons and one of the most common is the failure of managers to plan how to retain the knowledge that existed in both organizations before the merger. Or, simply put, knowledge is too often lost in the merger. A simple solution, meaningful conversation properly organized and structured, will help managers combine not only the companies, but the all important knowledge that employees in both organizations have. This author describes how to do it
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Who Will Lead The Change
Leadership roles are changing. Deborah Ancona, director of MIT’s Leadership Centre explains who will lead the change
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A New Model for Business: The Museum
In general we understand the role and appreciate that an expert who functions as our decision-making proxy makes for a much better museum-going experience
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Social Networking: The Corporate Value Proposition
Marketers habitually find it hard to quantify the value of what they do, and their use of social networks is the latest manifestation of this difficulty. Why is it so hard to determine the business value of social networks? This article explores the slippery slope of coming up with a useful ‘social media ROI’ and offers new ways to understand social networking’s value proposition