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		<title>Brand Health: Get A Thermometer, Stick A Needle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post, 4 Sure-fire Ways To Screw Up Your Brand, we looked at ways a brand management strategy could go awry. In a continuation of this series, we will look at ways to mitigate brand risk and protect your brand&#8217;s mind share. Read the market pulse. Well, sounds clichéd but if there was ever [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hemanthg11.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7537806&amp;post=171&amp;subd=hemanthg11&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>4 Sure-fire Ways To Screw Up Your Brand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organizations today that believe in branding themselves do so with the notion that a branding dollar invested today cuts down incremental cost of sales tomorrow. This investment is intended to establish the brand firmly in the consumer&#8217;s mind and trigger top-of-mind recall. Often businesses go wrong in getting this right although they start out with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hemanthg11.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7537806&amp;post=152&amp;subd=hemanthg11&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communication in M&amp;A Integration: 4 Things That Can Really Go Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communication is more often than not a checkbox in the vision documents of most merger deals. What this translates to is a whole set of checkboxes and to-do lists under that, that a few are tasked with implementing and fewer still comprehend why. The front lines especially, are usually the first to be impacted but the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hemanthg11.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7537806&amp;post=87&amp;subd=hemanthg11&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Degree Of Separation: Lehmann And After</title>
		<link>http://hemanthg11.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/one-degree-of-separation-lehmann-and-after/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lehmann Brothers. Sep 15th 2008. The name and date synonymous with THE financial catastrophe of this century. The once-admired iconic investment banking firm and sanctum sanctorum or &#8220;garbha griha&#8221; of starry-eyed MBAs now stands a fragmented and forlorn shadow of its former self. The bankrupt bank has proceeded to become part of the Barclays and the Nomuras of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hemanthg11.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7537806&amp;post=56&amp;subd=hemanthg11&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>High-Frequency Trading: The Ferrari Among Golf Carts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s like questioning the use of engine-assisted steering or &#8220;Power Steering&#8221; in automobiles. It&#8217;s like opposing the evolution of the pedestrian mobile phone of yesteryears into a phone, camera, FM/music player and credit card all rolled into one. It&#8217;s also like using a Ferrari as a golf cart and saying &#8220;You know what, I got here too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hemanthg11.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7537806&amp;post=48&amp;subd=hemanthg11&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bharti-MTN Merger: The &#8216;Ham&#8217;Burger Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay. Take a hamburger, turn it inside-out.. burger sandwiched between the ham, add cheese on the outside, generous helping of mayo on the.. that&#8217;s right.. outside, bite off one half and chew for all you&#8217;re worth, spit it out, pop in the other half and yes, chew and spit it out, pop in the hapless-looking first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hemanthg11.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7537806&amp;post=17&amp;subd=hemanthg11&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Random-Walk vs Chartism Conundrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The central dogma of the Random-Walk Theory is that successive price changes of a security in an efficient market are independent. The efficient market here pre-supposes instantly and publicly available historical data. So Random Walk implies short-run price-change independence or that short-run price changes are random about the true intrinsic value of the security, since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hemanthg11.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7537806&amp;post=13&amp;subd=hemanthg11&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are stock markets leading indicators of government performance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 08:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as I pen this, the UPA, the leading alliance in Indian politics would be plotting the contours of the aftermath of its orgasmic win in the world&#8217;s largest democratic exercise, the 2009 edition of the Lok Sabha parliamentary elections in India. For those unfamiliar with the nuances of government formation in India, it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hemanthg11.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7537806&amp;post=6&amp;subd=hemanthg11&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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