IIM Bangalore
IIM Bangalore
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Covid-19 and mental health fallout: Building resilience support for frontline workers essential to limit exits
The mental health of the FLHCWs needs to be addressed as a priority and given equal weightage along with other strategies to manage and control the disease and the pandemic at large
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Can we train the brain to conserve water?
Water management policies thus far have been about augmenting the supply of water rather than to lower demand. The resource is scarce and now we need to go beyond technological solutions.
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How to lay the solid foundation for semiconductor fabrication in India
The time has come that India incentivises local industries to make indigenous semiconductor chips. Here's how PLIs and SLIs will help establish a new industry and meet the ever-increasing demand.
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What America's dramatic Covid-19 turnaround can teach India
The crisis response of the US shows that evidence-based leadership that respects data, scientists and experts, funds science and and coordinates its crisis response can dramatically turn around the fate of a country. India needs a course correction too
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Critical communication networks need to be mined to contain an epidemic within a pandemic
Communication, source tracking and course corrections—the three-step protocol to effectively handle a crisis
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Supporting long duration R&D programs to avoid time compression diseconomies
The first Covid-19 vaccine came in record time but it's easy to forget the decades of research into mRNA, which underpins the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
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Why global commodity supercycles are not good for Paris climate targets
Apart from the policy lassitude induced by COVID 19, the other potent (but less noticed factor) standing in the way realising the Paris Climate Targets in the coming years is the phenomenon of overpriced global commodity markets
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Doing a good deed will make you resilient to deal with uncertain times
As civilians step up to help others, IIM-Bangalore brings lessons from endurance athletes and prisoners of war on how doing good deeds can help us cope with the devastating crisis unfolding around us
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Rethinking supply chains from the lens of omni-channel retailing
To provide customers with a seamless and glitch-free experience of shopping across platforms and channels, a more integrated approach is required
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The curse of daughters in dynasties
The emphasis on sons in dynasties, including family businesses, ensures that even now societies prefer sons carry their traditions forward, and the girl child remains neglected