Nokia: a lesson in how high-tech flyers can fall fast
In just five years Nokia fell from dominating the mobile phone industry to abandoning the handset business, a swift fall from grace with lessons for market leaders. The story of…
And the brand lives on… Oct 02, 2024
The product dies. The factory shuts down. The shelves become empty. The shops forget it. The mind stores in memory. The mind recalls. Such is the languishing power of a…
The al Qaeda plot to kill Bill Clinton that history nearly forgot
Air Force One with President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton aboard was on its final approach to Manila on Nov. 23, 1996, when their US Secret Service detail…
Change—accept, understand, adapt, grow
Depicting the glorious uncertainties of cricket, in a recent Test match between England and India, the first three days were all about the inevitable win for India. England’s batting floundered.…
Innovation for development
Innovation has long been recognized as a cornerstone of economic development and prosperity. It drives productivity, competitiveness, and job creation, while simultaneously addressing societal challenges and improving the overall quality…
Innovative economies
Innovation and entrepreneurship have now become the key drivers of fast-growing world economies. Countries that have realized this and are implementing aggressive strategies for implementation of national innovation and entrepreneurship…
Time to invest n ESG
The global community is working to transform the world by implementing sustainable development goals (SDGs) to protect fundamental rights of the people, promote equality, social justice, eliminate poverty; ensure access…
DIRBS: Initiative bearing fruit
With network coverage growing stronger and myriad options of mobile phones available in the market, the uptake of mobile technology is on an upward swing. Given the ubiquity of mobile…
China tries to flip the pandemic script, starring a ‘reborn’ Wuhan
China is recasting Wuhan as a heroic coronavirus victim and trying to throw doubt on the pandemic’s origin story as it aims to seize the narrative at a time of…
Investing in technology sector—a primer—II
The Part I of this series of articles on investing in information and communications technology (tech) sector highlighted the significant out-performance of this sector during the last several years and…
