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The year in review: Apple's universe?

28 Dec 2012 | Aswath Damodaran

In my view, no company has dominated the financial news and the cultural landscape in any year as much as Apple did during 2012.

How to succeed in business

21 Dec 2012 | Nicholas Bray

Have fun, hold onto the stair rail, and communicate well – advice from the executive who transformed formerly sleepy UK-based engineering firm AMEC plc into one of the best-performing companies on the London Stock Exchange in just 6 years.

Cautiously optimistic for a rate cut

19 Dec 2012 | Indranil Pan

A surprising feature of the policy release was the absence of any reference to fiscal issues and the consequent repercussions on monetary policy.

Goodwill, more plug than asset

17 Dec 2012 | Aswath Damodaran

To understand the treatment of goodwill in GAAP, it is worth taking a quick look at how acquisitions have been accounted for over time, at least in the United States.

Corporate growing pains: Build, borrow or buy?

14 Dec 2012 | Nigel Roberts

Doing the wrong thing really well in growing your business could lose you your competitive advantage. Here’s how to avoid the “implementation trap”.

Q3 GDP growth weak; further deterioration in private consumption

30 Nov 2012 | Siddhartha Sanyal & Rahul Bajoria

This follows the previous quarter’s 5.5% y/y growth and leads to average real GDP growth of 5.4% during Q1-Q3 2012.

Are you winning the global innovation game or are you being left behind?

19 Nov 2012 | Yves Doz

Being successful at innovation today means changing the way you think about where critical knowledge comes from and how to use it.

The hazards of FDI in pharma biz in India

08 Nov 2012 | Raj Ramachandran & Manav Raheja

The challenge for foreign investors and Indian promoters is to determine whether and how to structure investment terms in order to comply with new conditions, without diluting their commercial considerations.

RBI does what a central bank should do

31 Oct 2012 | Indranil Pan

The RBI balanced its anti-inflationary stance against the need to support growth with its tactical policy easing through only a CRR cut of 25 bps.

How social media can boost profits

26 Oct 2012 | Alvin Lee

Social Media can work wonders in internal corporate communications and boost the bottom line, as long as the message comes from the heart.

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