Shama Joshi and Seema Pai look like your average girls next door – smiling faces and dependable outlook mark their foray into entrepreneurship with a new sense of hope and admiration. Yet they both come from background one would not imagine the

 “I can’t build a house. I can’t afford to go for a family wedding. We are cornered by society.” -- Manpower worker attached to a state bank

Education, skills development and technical training providers are central to create productive employment opportunities for our young people. They prepare mostly young people for work in the 

At present, the public is minimally informed as to what the megapolis development is all about and has many questions regarding the concept of megapolis.

We now know that if you want your company become successful, you need to find the right level of aggregation—to categorize your customers in segments that are neither too big nor too small. 

We see and hear about CEOs championing various different causes – some are more motivational and socially inspiring than others. For the majority however, building a business has little to do with the soft skills of empathy and kindness –

There have been leaders in various spheres, since the origin of mankind. It was the leaders who created the history of the world, because of their actions, words and particularly vision to turn a new leaf in the world’s history. In other words,

Wedding functions, year-end corporate events, Christmas parties and New Year’s Eve dances are all over. December’s monthly revenue was high as the hoteliers bid adieu to last year, exclaiming ‘All’s well that ends well’.

In office real estate, vacancy levels in prime commercial areas play a vital role in deciding who shall have the better bargaining power while executing the transactions.   

The late Lee Kuan Yew told a group of civil servants in 1965 “Don’t change “No” to “Yes”. Don’t be a fool.  If there is a good reason why it is “No” it must remain No”, but tell the pub

As companies in every industry strive to become end-to-end digital enterprises, Oracle CEO Safra Catz who earlier in her career led that very transformation at Oracle offers this advice: “The attitude you need to have is not ‘

When economics textbooks give the impression that all consumers are alike, they are ignoring variances in the way different groups treat a product. In management, the term unsegmented, mass marketing is used to describe this approach

The cyclic nature of a stock market is well established. An intelligent investor should be able to maximize returns in spite of market cycles. This requires a winning spell of understanding market dynamics and adopting the correct attitude.

Amidst tough external and domestic environment, Sri Lanka’s shipping industry has grown beyond expectations. The growth in ship arrivals, growth in tonnage and the growth in throughput have all reached positive numbers by the end of 2015.

Developing Asia is poised to grow at 6 percent this year, a slight uptick from the 5.8 percent figure in 2015, but looking ahead, five major economic risks loom on the horizon and the impact of each will be different across countries.  

The Sunday Times had a headline recently that said with immediate effect that a Committee headed by Charitha Ratwatte a one time UNP Chairman will oversee the working of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). 

In Sri Lankan tourism, riding an elephant has become one of the key attractions. Due to this we find many elephants in the country being victims of...

Increasing fiscal deficit, reducing liquidity in the market, exchange rate pressure, US rate hike and inflationary expectations are likely to exert upward pressure on domestic interest rates during 2016. 

Customer relationship management (CRM) has gained widespread popularity in the business community for several reasons. 

Will Yahapalana’s plan to develop the country as announced recently - “Our objective is to make Sri Lanka the most competitive nation in the Indian Ocean and to develop the island as a MEGA CITY for the region that will go between Singapo

Global markets have had a rather rocky start to the year, to put it mildly. An indicator of global stocks has fallen 19 percent from their record highs in May 2015 amid a broad-based sell-off in risk assets. 

Everything is ready to celebrate the national Independence Day ceremoniously. It was because of our forefathers who shed their blood for the sake of motherland that the nation was free of British imperialists who exploited the spirit of people. The n

There is today considerable public interest in the Economic and T e c h n o l o g i c a l C o - o p e r a t i o n Agreement (ETCA),

In the last three weeks we reviewed what customer relationship management (CRM) means, challenges of CRM implementation, why

Fora smart young woman from Dallas, who went on to work for Microsoft, rising through the ranks successfully and then ended up married to her boss, 

On December 12, 2015, nearly 200 countries reached agreement to address climate change, which is one of the very few scientific theories that critically analyses the challenges to modern society,

When asked about what factors impact sales, many retailers will allude to the economy, weak consumer spending, competition and recent ‘shop from home’ innovations. 

?Most people in a country don’t understand the intricacies of exchange rate management. Nevertheless, actions in this regard have significant implications for the economic stability, growth and overall success of the economy, on which human dev

This article is written to commemorate the World Customs Day, which falls today. The focus of this article is the reforms and preparations undertaken by Sri Lanka to ratify the World Trade Organisation

According to a news item in Daily Mirror of January 22, 2016, (http://www.dailymirror.lk/103785/amunugama-stresses-need-to-bring-rural-agriculture-to-int-l-level), Minister Sarath Amunugama, at a meeting