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Panasonic to make India manufacturing hub; to start
University of Pennsylvania
exports offers a free course on
Japanese consumer electronics major Panasonic will start “Introduction to Operations
exports of home appliances from India as part of plans to make Management”
the country a manufacturing hub and the first shipment is
likely by 2014-15.
MBA student seeks to recreate Money ball Magic
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The new MSc in Business Analytics program at Schulich trains
analytics experts in deciphering big data. The latest stati stical Ski King is a ski resort in
techniques are taught in conjunction with traditional business Manali. One of their triple
school management theory to provide more powerful tools to chair lifts unloads 960
skiers per hour at the top of
solve business problems.
the slope. (A triple chair
lift can carry three
passengers per chair.) The
India’s manufacturing growth held steady in ride from the bottom to the
September: HSBC survey top takes 5 minutes. How
The HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index many Skiers are riding on
(PMI) — a measure of factory production — stood at 52.8 in the lift at any one time?
September, the same as in August. The September reading of
HSBC PMI points to a significant improvement in the health
of the manufacturing space as the sector witnessed the weakest
growth rate in nine months in August.
Kwality Dairy Selects IBM Cloud to Drive Supply Chain
Efficiencies
Selected IBM cloud to improve the dairy’s operational EDITORS
efficiency and productivity in its bid to become a global milk  Abhay Shankar
and milk products company  Sujitha Tikka
 Manoj H