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Teach for India is graduating to a different level

Edit The Hindu 25 Oct 2016
get in people who had no idea they wanted to be teachers, largely from middle-class families — where parents had spent their lives educating their kids so that they didn’t become teachers! — from the top schools and telling them, ‘With your IIM-A degree, leave that McKinsey job, and come and teach in a government school for ......

Emami to ramp up cement production capacity to 15-20 mt

Edit Newstrack India 24 Oct 2016
Kolkata, Oct 24 (IANS) The city-based Emami Group is planning to expand its cement manufacturing capacity to 15-20 million tonnes (mt) from the current 5.5 million tonnes in the next three to five years, a company director said on Monday ... Agarwal said ... Global consulting firm McKinsey is advising it on the marketing strategies for its cement business. --IANS. bdc/sm/vt. ....

Diversity leads to higher financial returns

Edit Khaleej Times 24 Oct 2016
Why do diversity and inclusion in a workplace matter to any company? ... Xu cited recent research by McKinsey which found that companies in the top quartile for gender or racial and ethnic diversity are more likely to have financial returns above their national industry medians ... "Having diverse experiences, viewpoints, and backgrounds brings innovative thinking and perspectives," she said ... - rohma@khaleejtimes.com. Rohma Sadaqat ... ....

Emami Cement eyes 15-20 MT biz in 5 yrs

Edit The Times of India 24 Oct 2016
Kolkata. Diversified Emami group is planning to build a cement production capacity of 15-20 million tonne over the next 3-5 years with an eye on changing customer needs ... We aim to be among the top three players in the cement industry ... The company is using the latest German equipment and robotics in its Chhattisgarh plant and roped in global consulting giant McKinsey to advise it on the marketing strategies for its cement business....

D.C. Mayor: 'We Cannot Grow With Gridlock'

Edit CityLab 24 Oct 2016
MIAMI—Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington, D.C., says that the current pace of population growth will soon boost her city’s population toward its historical highs ... home within 20 years ... To facilitate that growth, D.C ... “We cannot grow with gridlock,” Bowser told Jonathan Woetzel, a senior partner at the McKinsey Global Institute, during a live conversation at The Atlantic’s CityLab 2016 summit in Miami. Event. CityLab 2016 — ... Go ... ....

The shape of things to come – advanced networking security for the IoT (FSLogix Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Oct 2016
(Source. FSLogix Inc) ... This was recognised by a cross section of industry sectors surveyed in a new Quocirca report that covered the UK and German speaking region (, Oct 2016) ... The respondents were conservative about the number of devices likely to be involved over the next six months compared to industry estimates from sources such as Gartner, McKinsey, Juniper and previous Quocirca research (The Many Guises of the IoT, Dec 2015)....

Ardelyx Strengthens Executive Leadership with the Appointment of Reginald Seeto, MBBS, as Chief Operating Officer (Ardelyx Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Oct 2016
(Source. Ardelyx Inc). FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Ardelyx, Inc. (NASDAQ ... Dr. Seeto brings over a decade of pharmaceutical industry experience in corporate development, strategic operations and global marketing to Ardelyx. His appointment is effective immediately ... Dr ... Earlier, Dr. Seeto served as an engagement manager for McKinsey & Company and started his career as a practicing medical doctor and researcher in Australia. Dr....

ERG presents at major conference for the mining industry in Brazil: sets the course for BAMIN development, discusses key technological trends (Eurasian Resources Group SARL)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Oct 2016
(Source. Eurasian Resources Group SARL). ERG presents at major conference for the mining industry in Brazil. sets the course for BAMIN development, discusses key technological trends ... Via recent agreement with Google and McKinsey the Republic of Kazakhstan, another of the world's major producers of diversified raw materials, is aiming to become a pioneer in the use of 'big data' analysis to improve the efficiency of its mining sector....

Industry risks startup bubble

Edit The Jakarta Post 24 Oct 2016
Kaskus co-founder Ken Dean Lawadinata has broken his silence after marching out of one of Indonesia’s most prominent technology platforms, citing higher “risk” in the industry and even “a little bit of a bubble” ... Kearney ... These days, fewer tech companies are going for initial public offerings (IPOs) and when they do, it takes more time and more maturity to do so, according to data from McKinsey Indonesia ... ....

This time is different for Jamaica

Edit Jamaica Observer 24 Oct 2016
Businesses, facing the best financing conditions in generations, finally appear willing to increase their investment spending (they need to emphasise digitisation to improve productivity, according to a recent McKinsey Institute study at the excellent Institute of Chartered Accountants seminar last week), and project record financial prospects as a result of improving finances and profit expectations ... Looney notes further ... ....

SMU enhances curriculum and expands offering to prepare undergraduates for the digital age (SMU - Singapore Management University)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Oct 2016
(Source. SMU - Singapore Management University). · School of Information Systems revises curriculum to produce future-ready graduates as IT redefines jobs ... Singapore, 24 October 2016 (Monday) - Demand for infocomm professionals in Singapore is outpacing supply with 30,000 new infocomm jobs expected by 2020 ... According to the 2011 McKinsey & Company report, Finance is one of the sectors poised to capture significant value from big data....

How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul

Edit The Atlantic 24 Oct 2016
It was January 1975, and the Watergate Babies had arrived in Washington looking for blood ... Richard Nixon himself had resigned just a few months earlier in August ... One of their first targets was an old man from Texarkana ... The problem was ... And it turns out, according to a McKinsey study, that a disproportionately large amount of the productivity gains from the remarkable computerization of the economy were the result of just one company ... ....

How to upgrade America's airports

Edit Arkansas Online 23 Oct 2016
It's the one opinion that Donald Trump and his opponents seem to share. America's airports are so bad, it's like "they're from a Third World country," as Trump said in the first debate. Vice President Joe Biden used the same phrase to describe New York's LaGuardia two years ago ... It's enough to drive a frequent flier to distraction ... McKinsey recently estimated that the U.S ... Airports have been no exception to this trend ... To find a U.S....
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