Henry Fayol, a French industrialist, summarized the practice of management with fourteen principles.

1. Division of work: A high degree of specialization should result inefficiency. Both managerial and technical works are amenable to specialization.

2. Authority and responsibility: Henry Fayol finds authority and responsibility to be related, [...]

To be a good business leader, one needs to develop an articulated vision.  Do not imbibe a rigid, ‘one size -fits all’ approach to leadership.  Learn the leadership principles, adopt them, modify and re-modify them with your one-of-a-kind style, unique values and individual strengths.  The following are some pointers to effective [...]

Marketing a product or service that is designed, produced and sold as if all buyers were all the same is the typical mass-market philosophy. There is no recognition of the different demands, behaviors or attitudes of buyers, nor is there any attempt to differentiate [...]

Portfolio Management

Each and every investor has to face risk while investing. What is Risk? Risk is the uncertainty of income/capital appreciation or loss of both. Risk is classified into: Systematic risk or Market related risk and Unsystematic risk or Company related risk.

Systematic risk refers to that portion [...]

Word of Mouth – You don’t need to spend billions in drumming about your products, if you can get your own customers to talk about it. The age-old Marketing mantra of customer referral ‘by word-of-mouth’ holds good even today. Word of Mouth marketing is just about the cheapest thing you can do to [...]

How do you evaluate a technology that has completely captured the public’s imagination and spawned thousands of articles in newspapers n magazines? What about a technology that has come to indicate innovation, where the ignorance of how it works is a sure sign of being on the wrong side of [...]

i-marketing is a hot topic especially in these days of instant results. The reason why i-marketing has become so popular is because they provide three major benefits to potential buyers:

1. Convenience: Customers can order products 24 hours a day wherever they are. They don’t have to sit in traffic, and a parking space, and walk [...]

American Marketing Association
Function of Advertising
Advertising Objectives
The AIDA Model- Attention,  Interest, Desire, Action.
Case Study on Beauty Parlour
5 M’s of Advertising
Pictorial of Amul Butter
Advertising  Campaign
Case Study on Pepsodent – Dishoom Dishoom
Advertising Budget
Deciding on Advertising Budget
Type of Advertising
Consumer Advertising
Advertising to Business and Professional
Product Advertising
Celebrity Endorsement
Advantages of Celebrity Endorsement a Brand
Disadvantages of Celebrity Endorsement a [...]

The origin of the State Bank of India goes back to the first decade of the nineteenth century with the establishment of the Bank of Calcutta in Calcutta on 2 June 1806. Three years later the bank received its charter and was re-designed as the Bank of Bengal (2 [...]

Introduction

Decision-makers within organisations need to look into the future. As they do so, their thinking should focus on their customers. These should include existing customers and potential customers who have so far not taken up products from that organisation.

In an age when credit is more widely available than ever, [...]

Introduction

Businesses need to set themselves clear aims and objectives if they are going to succeed. The Kellogg Company is the world’s leading producer of breakfast cereals and convenience foods, such as cereal bars, and aims to maintain that position.

In 2006, Kellogg had total worldwide sales of almost $11 billion [...]

Introduction

In 1895 in Czechoslovakia, two keen cyclists, Vaclav Laurin and Vaclav Klement, designed and produced their own bicycle. Their business became Skoda in 1925. Skoda went on to manufacture cycles, cars, farm ploughs and airplanes in Eastern Europe. Å koda overcame hard times over the next 65 years. These included war, economic [...]

Introduction

Barclays is a major global financial services provider. It operates in over 50 countries and employs 135,000 people. In 2007, Barclays had an income of £23 billion, generating a profit before tax of just over £7 billion. In the UK, Barclays has 724,000 business customers. Many of these customers run [...]

Introduction

Ben Sherman is a globally recognised lifestyle brand. It has grown from its business beginnings in quality shirts in Brighton in 1963 and is now sold in 35 countries around the world. It has expanded into the USA, Europe, and Australasia.

In 2004, Ben Sherman was acquired by the American-based [...]