Business, culture - 2018 twists

Launching 2018 with a cover story on "The Culture Factor," the Harvard Business Review (HBR) could not have touched a more loaded concurrent issue than this. To be sure, the HBR subject is "corporate culture," and its objective is to find how best to manage the "critical elements of organisational...

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Cloud dream: Staying an election year economy

In sports specially in cricket or football, technical reasons to postpone or stay a game is always favoured by the team with higher losing probability. It is a good excuse to save face and avoid the loss of faith from supporters. The same analogy, may be applied to the current...

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The West's broken promises on education aid

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE), a worthy and capable initiative to promote education in 65 low-income countries, is having what the jargon of development assistance calls a "replenishment round," meaning that it is asking donor governments to refill its coffers. Yet the fact that the GPE is begging for...

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