Tata Group aims to achieve two things from this venture – first, fulfill its corporate social responsibility and second, make profit. This is precisely what Mr. C.K. Prahlad, the renowned management guru, has been advocating. Read more »

Consider this – At the time of writing this article, Susan Boyle-related videos have generated more than 100 million views in Youtube. As you are reading this, there must be thousands of viewers watching Susan Boyle’s videos. Read more »

There is a difference between recession and slow down. The dictionary meaning of recession is two continuous quarters of negative growth where as during slowdown there is growth but it is slow. And who says India has negative growth? The RBI is still predicting a GDP growth of about 7%. Read more »

It is official now – activecubes is one of the five who won the Tata Nen Hottest Start Up Award for 2008. Read more »

A recession in US should worry India as it has major outsourcing deals.The strengthening rupee is another cause of concern.Oil prices coming down is at present keeping inflation down. The way out of the present crisis is only through a massive fiscal stimulus either by monetizing or by tax cuts. Read more »

The Harvard had its fair share of recent criticism if the news coverage of the background and education that the instigators of the biggest financial turmoils in recent times had, was anything to go by. Now it was the other hand’s turn to face the music – ladies and gentlemen, enter RA Stanford. Read more »

If an original good quality DVD did not cost more than Rs 50 then there would be no piracy. If the production house distributes its content close to the prices of pirated ones, piracy will have to take a dip. Moserbaer’s initiatives in the right direction is worth emulating. Read more »

If you sit in a Six Sigma brainstorming discussion, the way the problems are resolved, might lead you to ask yourself “Is this something that I don’t know of ?” They are nothing new. Read more »

The infrastructure segments (Power, Road, Transport, etc) in India are not in sync today. Will any synchronization among these segments bring about a positive change to the Indian economy? Read more »

Attrition, for a long time, has been a taboo word. India is probably the only employment market in the world where there is no published industry data for attrition. Read more »

As someone who’s enjoyed the exotic spread of options available in the seven course buffet and expecting that this was a given every other day, the employee finds it hard to live with just bread and peanut butter alone Read more »

Many of us have been talking about Ramalinga Raju and his candid confessions. Spare a moment for the man who built the country’s fourth largest IT empire and gave livelihood to over 50000 families for over two decades and hope for millions of shareholders. Read more »

In this much needed era of awareness, Nokia announced their recycling campaign for the Indian region. What’s more, Nokia will also plant a tree for every handset received Read more »

Our detailed study & exercise led us to the conviction that land is less volatile compared to mutual funds, stocks, equities, investment trusts etc. Haven’t we all experienced and witnessed the massive erosion of wealth & valuation in the past few months, on most investment instruments mentioned above? Read more »

activecubes help clients take better business decisions by validating hypothesis & gut feel based on statistical data analysis. This data could be internal transactional data or from external sources like syndicated data, competitor data, etc. Read more »