Competitive intelligence, according to the author is the ability to see through or stay ahead of competition. It is the unspoken, hidden key to success. It helps you figure out your customer's strategic thinking, a rival's cost structure when making a bid, or a competitor's new product plans. Apparently, it helps you make moves ahead of your rivals. Example? T. Boone Pickens, the oil and gas...

PFC is not a growth story. Will its IPO be priced as a value story?

Power Finance Corporation, exclusively focused only on funding the power sector, is raising money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of 154,567,500 equity shares of Rs.10 each which includes a fresh issue of up to 103,045,000 shares and an offer for sale of up to 51,522,500 shares by the Government of India. Is it...

When you go for a tan, you're always advised to take along some sunscreen. While this may keep skin cancer at bay, researchers are now saying that a good dose of exercise could also help protect you from skin cancer. So get yourself into jogging shoes on the beach as well. Rutgers University cancer researcher Allan Conney reports that mice with running wheels in their cages had 32% fewer...