Manufacturing sector in India is projected to have a very large short-fall of skilled workers (90 million by the year 2022, according to National Skills Development Corporation). Executives consistently stress that “skill development is the most pressing challenge to the manufacturing sector in India” (report from World Economic Forum). Recommendation …

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I had obtained data on the prices and the popularity rank of some 600 odd products from Flipkart.com website for a different project. Given that I had this data, it seemed like an interesting experiment to see if conventional wisdom that marketers like to have prices end in ‘9 …

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Consider a researcher who has submitted a paper to a good journal, and receives a revise & resubmit decision. Should the researcher revise the paper and resubmit it as soon as possible, or should she wait a fashionable amount of time before resubmitting the paper? Below is a simple model I …

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