First Principles
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HDFC Mutual Fund Unwavered by Recent Failures
HDFC Mutual Fund’s Prashant Jain is unapologetic about the recent poor performance of HDFC Top 200, the country’s biggest fund, despite some mistakes in picking the wrong stocks and sectors
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Innovation Can't be Measured in Dollars: Harvard Prof Stefan Thomke
The most expensive and inventive things are not necessarily the ones that provide the greatest value to the market and vice-versa as well, says Stefan Thomke
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Farmer Suicides: The State's Killer Policies
Herbicide-tolerant cotton grows clandestinely in Vidarbha while the government tries to curb GM adoption under NGO pressures
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Movies Are Not A First-Weekend Game: Siddharth Roy Kapur
Films make most of their money in the first few days. But for a revenue stream over a lifetime, the film needs to succeed beyond that, says Siddharth Roy Kapur, MD, Studios - Disney UTV
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Ramco's Turnaround: Can a new CEO do it?
Virender Aggarwal is effecting a painful change at Ramco. Will he succeed?
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'India's Services Sector-Based Economic Model is its Problem'
Gary Dugan of RBS says when a currency falls, it also offers a solution to the underlying issue of lack of competitiveness. But India has to get its manufacturing act together
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Hybrid Maize Helps Uplift Gujarat's Tribal Farmers
Shifting tribal farmers from low-yield, low-income maize to more productive agriculture has been at the heart of Gujarat’s plan for tribal uplift
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IRDA Could Stifle Online Insurance Aggregators
Latest guidelines from IRDA threaten to further tighten the screws on web aggregators but they aren’t rattled yet—after all, internet-savvy consumers are their insurance
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Ruchir Sharma Analyses India's Centre-States Equation
India’s recent economic failures are the result of the breakdown in accountability at the Centre, says Ruchir Sharma. But mass-based leaders in states are faring much better
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Building Global Brands from Emerging Economies
Companies in emerging markets may not need to build brands. But, if they do, China can show how. It is far ahead of the game than India
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The Potato Farming Success of Gujarat's Banaskantha District
Contrary to NGO stories of exploited farmers and middlemen running riot, Gujarat’s potato farmers have scripted an entrepreneurial success story by teaming up with multinationals and other buyers of their produce