Washington, July 10: Invoking national interest, renowned spiritual guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, has appealed to all Indian political parties to display ‘magnanimity’ and support the troubled Indo-US nuclear deal. "All parties must support the deal that is beneficial to the country," he said. India has always had a tradition of the government and opposition coming together in national interest whenever a crisis ...

And now the big one. Salary. Why big? Money makes the world go round. I ain't saying it. Its general consensus. In this article we plan to look at post-MBA salaries across various industries and sectors. Naturally, these depend on the number of years of work experience, the pre-MBA profile, how well defined are the aims of the candidate and the list goes on and on and on. In fact a company called Wetfeet publishes...

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/blockbuster-express-digital-rent-movies-on-sd-cards-20091110/# Last week Kingston announced it was going to start bundling movies with sales of Flash memory products, this week Blockbuster has announced you can start renting movies on SD cards. Now correct me if I'm wrong but out of the following two scenarios what looks good? This is what a sane human (Blockbuster management...

Growing political mayhem and economic mismanagement are turning India into a High Cost Economy. Read that as falling competitiveness, job losses and industrial emigration. On September 12th, 2005, Business week headline read : "Why the world must watch out for India and China". Alas, this very statement created in India a superego that is now hard to get rid of.  We are proud people. A little bit of praise thrown ...

I came up with a formula for my reading speed long time back in school, and thought I would share it here. Conventionally reading speed is defined in words per minute but I don't see how that is of any consequence. How can you know before hand the number of words in a tome and come up with how much time you're going to finish it in? This formula does just that. Its like this: Time taken to read in minutes = [(No....

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realised that what you heard is not what I meant. Rebecca Saxe tries to address the problem of how we develop the neural infrastructure to think about others' thoughts. The region of the brain called the RPTJ can actually, on external stimulation change people's perceptions of what is fair and what is not.

A good intellectual discussion on Google's Strategy, between two great thinkers on Planet Earth. Me After relentlessly aping Yahoo (email, maps, search, messenger, local), Apple (G1, App Store, et al), Microsoft (OS, Live mail, Docs, Browser), Google sets its eyes on Facebook. I think they should get an award for being the least creative company in the world - the only innovation they came up with was Google...

This is an analysis of how to strategically think about adopting a new social technology – if you value your freedom that is. The DATA: I asked a lot of my friends about what isthe time they think that occurs between interruptions, if one has access to any of the social technologies listed below – and here are the results: (for all practical purposes “Boss” is considered as a technology) I assumed (as is us...

After getting TONS of experience now for one year of researching GMAT and MBA stuff, I present prospective with MBAs some results of my research. In this post I shall be discussing only MBA degrees offered by colleges accepting GMAT and/or TOEFL scores for the same. Ok. Let's assume that you have already taken a decision to get an MBA. The reasons might be varied. You hate your job - want to switch an industry....

The Financial Times does a BORDA COUNT on all the factors responsible for ranking a B-School. However, some of these factors are not really "factors of competition". So from a voting perspective this article looks at the modified rankings of B-Schools, using the PLURALITY method of voting, considering the effect of removing the insignificant factors. The current article will look at the intimidating number of...