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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Style Police catches Sonam!

Sonam Kapoor’s co-star in Saawariya, Ranbir Kapoor, consciously toyed with the imagination of women as he danced with just his towel on, but Sonam herself recently came close to some inadvertent skin-show. At a promotional event organised for her upcoming film Aisha, Sonam nearly had a wardrobe malfunction incident, when it was noticed that she was having a rather tough time keeping her pants on. For someone who has been working very hard on being a style diva, such an event would’ve been disastrous!


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Friday, July 27, 2012

Green to Gold and author of Green Recovery

In The Aftermath of The Global Financial Meltdown, Corporations are facing unique Challenges. The Future is in Incorporating and Capitalising on a Green Strategy writes Andrew Winston, Co-Author of Green to Gold and author of Green Recovery.

All of these pressures are making up for a green wave which is altering business dynamics permanently. Like it or not, companies and countries must deal with current and longer-term environmental issues while simultaneously working on current economic challenges. Luckily for businesses, the solutions to both economic and environmental problems overlap heavily. The same strategies and tactics that address long-term environmental challenges will help companies survive today’s economic conditions.

Companies that want to stay healthy today, and also get ready for the inevitable upturn to come need a strong green plan. In tight times, figuring out what to prioritise is even more important. I suggest focusing on four areas:
Get lean by revving up your energy and resource efficiency to survive the downturn.
Get smart by using environmental data about products and value chains to save money, innovate, and generate competitive advantage.
Get creative and rejuvenate your innovation efforts by asking heretical questions such as “Can we run our business with no fossil fuels?”
Get (your people) engaged and excited by asking employees to solve their own, the company’s, and even the world’s environmental challenges.
The four major areas of focus will benefit your company today and tomorrow. Betting on efficiency and getting lean will save you money quickly, but also make you more competitive in a future with higher resource prices and more questions from customers about your environmental footprint. Gathering data on the company’s environmental footprint up and down the value chain will help you identify high-priority areas for cost cutting today and make you smarter about where to focus longer-term innovation efforts. Getting creative means optimising today’s processes and operations and developing tomorrow’s new products and services. And of course, engagement and alignment of all your people makes all of these efforts possible. In short, green isn’t an additional, tangential pursuit that clashes with business functions; it is a core part of operations today.

In tight times, more than ever, a solid plan for a green recovery will make your company more competitive, no matter what its size.


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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Food Prices Up; R&D Down

Dwindling Focus on R&D Investment in Agriculture Spells Disaster!

The advent of 20th century saw a sharp positive shift in the trajectory of global poverty alleviation by the means of enhanced agricultural production aided by R&D which lifted millions out of abject poverty. But R&D investment in agriculture has not been witnessing very positive signs.

As per a book titled ‘Developing World: Too little too late?’, from the period 1981 to 2000, worldwide R&D investment in agriculture increased by 51% (from $15.2 billion to $23 billion). Out of this, the contribution of rich countries was $12.8 billion in 2000 – two third of which came from just 4 countries – US, Japan, Germany and France. However, R&D spending in agriculture is negligible when compared to other industries even beyond 2000. In 2005, the European Commission data confirmed that, pharmaceuticals & biotechnology ($97 billion in R&D), technology hardware and equipment ($101 billion), automobiles and parts ($92 billion) and software and computer services ($35 billion) grossed more in R&D investments than agriculture, which rose by 2.3% in the last decade – pharma and biotech grew at 8.3%, technology hardware & equipment at 7.2% and software grew at 9.2% in just one year; 2005.

FAO’s biannual outlook mentions, “In international food trade, the global food import bill is expected to reach a new record of $1.29 trillion in 2011 – 21 percent more than in 2010. Low-Income Food Deficit Countries and Least Developed Countries would be hardest-hit since they would likely have to spend respectively 27 and 30 percent more on food imports than last year.World Bank estimates there was just 1.46% growth in agriculture during 2008-2009 in low income countries. Global food price index was estimated to have been around 36% higher yoy in March 2011, which has ensured that 44 million people moved back below the poverty line.


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Friday, October 26, 2007

Can solar be the ultimate energy source on Earth?

In my last column I pointed out that solar energy is – with exception of energy derived from nuclear, geothermal, tidal sources – the fundamental source of all energy on earth. Also mentioned was the fact that 90 petawatts – that's 90,000,000,000,000,000 watts for those who like to count the zeroes – of sunlight fall on the earth each day.Where's my solar power missing? And if the sunlight falling on earth at six specific locations was converted to electricity, the energy would more than meet current world needs (15 terawatts). So why haven't the governments of Algeria, Australia, Chile, China, Saudi Arabia & USA (the countries in which these locations are present) built solar conversion facilities at these locations? There are a number of technical reasons, but the principal reason is economic.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

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Friday, September 07, 2007

Black Dragon!

China offers the greatest conundrum of our times. China’s rapid modernization over the last 3 decades has brought millions out of poverty, but has left China with 16 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities (357 out of 696 cities experienced acid rain) in 2005. China should be an example to all economies, to focus solely on economic growth to the exclusion of sustainable practices only gives the illusion of economic prosperity,” said Anna Clark – President, EarthPeople, LLC, a Dallasbased consulting firm – in a chat with B&E. The Chinese authorities are not dismissing this as another western onslaught aimed at disrupting their economic growth. “There seems to be a great deal of interest in protecting the environment from the central government in China. There’s innovation around issues like green building & solar power. But China is also building a lot of coal plants. And in the province, rapid economic development and job creation take precedence over environmental protection. So the picture is very mixed,” said Marc Gunther, a senior writer at Fortune & the author of Faith & Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism is Transforming American Business.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007

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Monday, August 27, 2007

“Star has put all its eggs in the Balaji basket and created a brand bigger than itself.”

While, competition will surely go through the roof as also the options, it is specially NDTV and INX which are being closely watched. Reason? Paritosh admits, “...both (Sameer & Peter) know the genres and value chains in which Star operates and have a great network themselves.” If they could once help Star scale the heights that it did, what stops them from repeating the feat!

But, all is not lost.

Star Plus’ sister channel Star One is doing well, and it has some popular properties like Koffee with Karan, Antakshari, The Great Indian Laughter Challenge (hugely marketed), et al, to boast. “Star One’s weekend programming is quite strong, now you will see efforts to strengthen its weekday line-up,” says Vidyasagar. Moreover, to control the damage caused by the exodus, a major restructuring has taken place at Star India. Star News’ CEO Uday Shankar has taken over as the Chief Executive of Star India and Sanjay Jain has been appointed the CFO, among others.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

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