In a significant amendment to existing norms, a Ministry will no longer need to seek approval of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) or the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) if it wants to appoint a board-level officer in a PSU via the search-cum-selection route (which opens the door to private sector … Read more
All great innovators in literature, science, music, engineering, art, and business have practiced it. Thinking, today, is being taught at leading universities globally, including Stanford d.school (the Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design), Harvard and MIT. But why call it design thinking? Because, this is a practice practised during innovation, typically. However, now it is applied in all forms of … Read more
Nearly every startup prides itself on its proprietary software products. And that’s no surprise: Digital systems are crucial to operations and hold most of the value of everything founders and their teams work to build. Therefore, getting the development process correct from the get-go can have life-or-death consequences for your startup. After all, young companies … Read more
Recent PhD graduate Aaron Palumbo, along with graduate students Scott Rowe and Chubukov, sought a better way. They swapped cheap, abundant carbon for the silicon reactant and addressed flaws in the production process, landing on a system that requires much less energy. They also managed to extract magnesium continuously, rather than in batches, and eliminated … Read more