The All India Management Association (AIMA), the apex body of professional management in India, has published its first ever Business School Directory. AIMA, which had come out with a Best B-Schools Survey in 2008, has now compiled a comprehensive and exhaustive list of over 1,700 business schools across India.

The AIMA directory provides listings for management institutes,...

Great historical research but suspect prognosis

The thesis of this book is simple. Starting from 1971, when defence manufacturing company Lockheed was rescued for $250 million, the US government has been consistently bailing out US companies. From loan guarantees for Penn Central in 1974 ($676.3 million), to the $1.5 billion rescue of Chrysler in 1980 and then Continental Illinois Bank in...

Read this story and see if you can find any parallels with investing. Zhuge Liang led an army to Qi Mountain six times. Eventually, he fell sick from exhaustion and passed away at an army base. Before he died, Zhuge Liang told his deputy, Jiang Wei to keep the news of his death a secret. He also wanted his artisans to carve a life-size wooden statue of him, for his soldiers to dress up in his...