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What's Your Medal Tally? – Behind the Scenes of myPicks | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

This game is developed by Pramati Technologies , the leading product development company, based in Hyderabad. Here’s what I found out from Pramati’s Co-founder & CTO Vijay Prasanna Pullur. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) RS: Congratulations on the new Facebook game release.

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Procter & Gamble and Innovation in Asia

Harvard Business Review

As promised , I asked Bruce Brown , P&G's CTO, one of the questions readers submitted last week: "As you look forward into the future what do you see as P&G's largest challenges, as seen through your eyes as CTO?" P&G is about an $80 billion company. Brown noted three specific challenges. First, the general challenge of growth.

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Get the Most Out of Your Board

Harvard Business Review

For this post, I examined the individual habits of board members of two struggling companies: Hewlett Packard and Yahoo. Are the board members champions of the product and services of those companies? In fact, research shows that companies with diverse boards outperform those with a "male, pale, and stale" composition.

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The Professional’s Guide to a Stress-Free Vacation

Harvard Business Review

Get over yourself — the company probably won’t implode while you’re away. Until this summer, Matthew Bellows hadn’t taken more than a few days’ vacation since 2010, when he launched Yesware, a Boston-based email productivity and tracking tool for salespeople. I get back, and the company’s running great without me,” he says. “We

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Act Like a Leader Before You Are One

Harvard Business Review

For example, you might be able to identify a customer need that isn''t being met by your company''s current product line, and propose a new one. Or you could do a quick analysis of how much a specific change would save the company. In late 2010, after ten years at Citi, Heather Espinosa was promoted to managing director.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, the first year, the event was fledgling, but charming. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. But as she began to consider her future at the company, she realized that all of the people above her were white, male engineers or accountants.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

Companies with broader risk management outlooks and practices outperform their peers, according to a survey from Ernst and Young. The movie-by-mail program was enhanced by the streaming option in 2010 and slowly they killed all their competition like Blockbuster. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT management'