40 years of Sholay: Lessons for Corporate India from Amitabh Bachchan – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 13 Aug (Thurs)
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Life
- 40 years of Sholay: Lessons for Corporate India from Amitabh Bachchan: Business Standard
- That little voice in our head: Star
- Octopuses, genes and intelligence: Tentacles that think; Studying cephalopods may illuminate the evolution of brains of all sorts: Economist
- Shooting for Start-up Success? Take a Detour: K@W
- Never call your customers. Research shows phoning customers is outdated, intrusive and most importantly, nothing but a waste of time.: TheAge
Books
- Business Book Award longlist: must-read titles of 2015: FT
- The Innovation Paradox: Why Good Businesses Kill Breakthroughs and How They Can Change: Amazon, CFA
Investing Process
- Buffett’s biggest deal casts light on pension burden: Reuters
- Avoiding Process Drift: AWOCS
- Lists of Market Wisdom: SC
- Asking the right questions: Investors need to step up when it comes to engaging company boards and holding them accountable.: BT
- Charley Ellis: Why active managers extract value from the investment process: EI
- A stockpicker confesses to recommendations you should not buy: FT
- Why Not Insider Trade on Every Company?: Bloomberg
- Trading Investigation Eyes Ex-Chairman of Dean Foods and Golfer Phil Mickelson: WSJ
- Company Documents Get Graphic to Increase Transparency: WSJ
- FASB Updates Revenue Recognition Rules to Reflect Delay: WSJ
Greater China
- Maybe China Doesn’t Have a Master Plan: Bloomberg
- Currency Rout Goes Global as Jen Sees Risk of 50% Loss on China: Bloomberg
- Alibaba Is Planning Its Comeback From the World’s Biggest Wipeout of Market Value; It took less than a year for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to turn from a stock-market darling into the biggest source of shareholder losses worldwide: Bloomberg
- Alibaba by the Numbers: Six Big Metrics From New Report Card: Bloomberg
- With Sales Slowing, Luxury Brands Are Finding Hong Kong Rent Too High: Bloomberg
- Here’s the Recent History of the Chinese Yuan in One Big Chart: Bloomberg
- What Does China’s Devaluation Mean?: Bloomberg
- Lessons for China from past currency peg mistakes: FT
- China Black Swans Not So Rare Anymore as PBOC Shocks Markets: Bloomberg
- Global Chinese Consumer Leaves No Winners in Luxury Stocks Rout: Bloomberg
- WeChat’s Growth Shows Why Messaging Apps Attract Big Valuations: Bloomberg
- Anger brews as China steel exporters cut prices after yuan drop: TheAge
- Devaluation Hints at China’s Rising Distress Over Economy: NYT
India
- Indian makers are still the stuff of Modi’s dreams; A goal to increase manufacturing is overdue but the obstacles are formidable: FT
- The technology tribe: Shift from traditional businesses; Though innovations have triggered a gentle new wave in brick-and-mortar businesses, the burgeoning startup culture in India is unequivocally tech-led and valuation-motivated: Forbes
Japan & Korea
- Beauty Without Borders as South Korean Products Sell in America: Bloomberg
- New ‘K-beauty brands’ find niche overseas: KH
- South Korea Struggles With Legacy of Japanese Colonization: WSJ
ASEAN
- Singapore’s white-collar crime buster admits that it needs to get to the bottom of the penny stock scandal that wiped $8 billion off the value of three share counters in 2013.: AsiaOne
- Ringgit Weakens Beyond 4 Per U.S. Dollar for First Time Since 1998: Bloomberg
- Head of Myanmar ruling party removed in power struggle: AsiaOne
- ‘Cronies’ of Former Myanmar Regime Thrive Despite U.S. Blacklist; Targeted companies such as Myanmar’s Asia World keep a tight hold on the country’s economy: WSJ
- Widodo Reaches for Indonesia Reboot as Currency Pressure Mounts: Bloomberg
Macro
- On Your Marks: The Race to Global Manufacturing Leadership Is On: Forbes
- How to Make Private Equity Honest: Bloomberg
- Redefining EM: governance regimes are the key distinction; The term ‘emerging markets’ should be replaced by six categories based on governance regimes: FT
- Yuan Devaluation Boosts Investors Betting Against Asia: WSJ
Energy & Commodities
- Cheap Debt Evaporates for Junk Companies in Oil’s Cruel Summer; The weakest corporate borrowers are finding the days of free-flowing credit quickly evaporating: Bloomberg
- The world’s producers are boiling in cheap oil; Financial pressures on petro-states continue to increase: FT
- Struggling dairy farmers scramble to sell milk directly to customers; Surge of dairy farmers using online marketplaces to achieve a higher price of milk: Telegraph
- Solyndra 2.0 Nears Bankruptcy As Bonds Collapse To Record Lows: zh
Healthcare
- Biotech Stocks Are on the Brink of a Correction: Bloomberg
TMT
- Google learns ABCs of conglomerate life: Reuters
- The Top Questions Facing Alphabet, the New Google Conglomerate: Bloomberg
- Alphabet can create a clever conglomerate; Big companies outperform when they exploit their advantages: FT
- The Example Larry and Sergey Should Follow (It’s Not Buffet): HBR
- Amazon.com Inc quietly shuttered a pay-per-click advertising programme that allowed businesses to divert traffic from the retailer’s platform to their own websites : Star
- Why Streaming Services Are So Secretive: Bloomberg
- Retailer-backed mobile wallet to rival Apple Pay set for test: Reuters
Consumer & Others
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