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Dataspeak August 2017

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Economy and Policy

The Changing Dimensions of Customer–Marketer Relationship in Nepal

In marketing, companies aim to satisfy their customers in the best possible ways, and in the process of doing so, work on various customer-oriented strategies to satisfy and retain their customers, . . . Read more »

Size Zero Economy

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Nepal’s Airlines Companies in Red: CAAN

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New Nepali ‘Laissez Faire’ How Strong? How Long?

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Chronic Low Back Pain

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No Laughing Matter

Government’s Milking Tricks

Nepal Government knows well how to milk the people. Whenever it wants to extract more from them, it raises the price of the commodities like milk. As you may know, the milk pouches in Nepali market are not as easily available as do the liquor bottles. . . . Read more »

Analysis

The Blockade: Illusion and Reality

The problem seen in supply management in Nepal has put all three sides – Nepal government, Madhesi Front and India – in a tight spot. A solution will not be found until one of them blinks first. . . . Read more »

Sectoral

Changing Times for Nepali Film Industry

Gone are the days when Nepali movies would struggle hard just to break even months after their release . Nowadays, Nepali movies are making substantial profits even just a few weeks after opening. . . . Read more »

Stock Taking

Monthly Technical Analysis of Nepse (25 June to 24 July 2017)

The benchmark index gained 69.59 points (or up 4.44%) to close at 1629.08 last month. Events such as release of monetary policy and talks regarding online trading system were witnessed in the course of last month. . . . Read more »

Economy and Policy

Marxism in the Digital Era

Marxism, to put it simply, is a social, political and economic philosophy that analyses the interrelation between capital, labour and productivity with respect to economic factors. Developed by Karl . . . Read more »

Feedback May 2013

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FDI Policy Shortcomings in Nepal

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“Urban voters favoured liberal economy”

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Beating the Heat this Summer

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Interview

‘‘CEOs of banks are under pressure when promoters ask for 40-50 per cent return on their investments

Dr Yuba Raj Khatiwada, the Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) is set to retire on 23rd March completing his five-year term. He is admired for saving the Nepali banking sector from a 'systematic failure.' However, he is also criticised for micro-managing the banking . . . Read more »

Interview

“At Sakchyam, we want to be a game-changer”

There are differences between government-funded programmes and donor-funded programmes. A programme like ours aims to increase local capacity. The word Sakchyam itself means ‘building capacity’ . . . Read more »

Business Visitors

“We will educate Nepali consumers about the benefits of LG Inverter Technology Products”

CG Electronics, the sole distributor of LG consumer electronics recently launched LG Inverter Technology products in the Nepali market. Various types of home appliances with LG Inverter Technology were showcased at the launch under the theme 'Energy Saved is Energy . . . Read more »

Economy and Policy

Reviving the Nepali Textile Industry

The government in its earnest effort has offered much in the past to promote the domestic textile industry in Nepal. There was a time when Nepali textiles were exported to neighboring countries . . . Read more »

Voices May 2013

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‘I have identified Planning as a major weakness in most companies’

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Corporate Sector Defying General Strikes for Good

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The Glory of Advertising

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Personality

From Ambition to Achievement

“Honesty, responsibility and hard work is the key to personal and professional success,” says Rajesh Kumar Keyal, Director of Keyal Group. Keyal believes that proper division of work and responsibility makes it easier to attain any goal. “Contribution of all associated members is crucial for the success of any business or industry. Personal success of an individual is an outcome of his professional success,” . . . Read more »

Biz News

Biz News November 2015

The Federation of Handicraft Associations of Nepal, Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers Association and Federation of Nepal Gold Silver Gem and Jewellery Associations are the organisers of the expo. The expo is being organised with support from the Ministry of Commerce and Supplies and the Trade and Export Promotion Centre, according to a press . . . Read more »

Business Visitors

“We will be introducing more four-wheelers like Kwid and Duster in Nepal”

The French multinational brand Renault recently launched two new vehicles in Nepal- the SUV Duster and hatchback Kwid which were also showcased at the 11th NADA Auto Show. Marking its entry in the domestic automobile market with these two . . . Read more »

Economy and Policy

Second Pillar : Private Sector in Development

As the different elements of a Post 2015 Development gradually emerge there is at least one element that seems almost pre-ordained. That is, the private sector will have a feature role whether it . . . Read more »

Startup Scene

Connect IN: Connecting Dots between Nepali and Indian Startup Scenes

At a time when Nepali startups are trying to make footprints in various business sectors, it has become important to connect them with budding entrepreneurs from other countries and various players . . . Read more »

Biztoon May 2013

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‘The customers are required to get the full value for their money’

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Nepal-Finland Relationship Increasing Significantly

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Entrepreneurship Culture through Capital Market

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Management Gyan

Education Partnership : Agenda for Action

The relationship is indeed symbiotic in nature as both alternate their roles as supplier and user of resources for each other – business supplying inputs (resources, needs, information etc) to the . . . Read more »

Biz Launches

Biz launches November 2015

Ncell has launched Paisa Back offer for its prepaid customers. Under this offer, customers on using certain given amount from their main balance will enjoy a bonus return of equivalent amount every day throughout the campaign . . . Read more »

Business Visitors

“Nepali wine market is definitely strong and it’s growing”

With a history of 167 years, the Australian wine Jacob’s Creek was recently awarded as ‘Australia’s Most Trusted Wine Brand’ by Reader’s Digest. To keep the real taste of wine alive, Jacob’s Creek sources high quality grapes . . . Read more »

Economy and Policy

Managing Change Managing People

“Change is inevitable” – there is no argument about it. The only thing is how it’s creeping into our lives. When we look around, we see changes have happened and are still happening. Perhaps, . . . Read more »

Restaurant Review

Fine Italian Dining at Rox Restaurant and Bar

Choosing a restaurant in Kathmandu for a weekend dinner can easily lead to a state of indecision. Do you go to an old favourite, or try somewhere new? . . . Read more »

Dragonair’s New Uniform

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Lean Management: Making Value Flow

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“Stable political condition invited financial support to Nepal”

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InternationalDegrees in Nepal

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Management Gyan

Spotting Disengaged Employees and Making Them Engaged

Creating an engaged workforce gives companies a competitive advantage. In order to create such workforce, companies should differentiate disengagements from engagements and make a serious effort to transform disengagements into engagements. . . . Read more »

Banking Activities

Banking Activities November 2015

NMB Bank started its integrated operation from Sunday after a historic merger with four financial institutes - Pathivara Bikash Bank, Clean Energy Development Bank, Prudential Finance including NMB Bank itself. The meerged bank has retained the name NMB . . . Read more »

Cover Story

ARE WE CATCHING UP
WITH THE WORLD

Nepali Business Houses in New Economy

One of the characteristics of Nepali business houses is that they like to be omnipresent, in every sector, in all parts of the country and even may be . . . Read more »

3rd National B-schools Rating-Ranking-Awards 2017

Ace Institute of Management Declared Best B-School of Nepal

Ace Institute of Management has won Best Business School Rating-Ranking Award-2017. The college was named the best among the business colleges from across the country amid an award ceremony organised . . . Read more »

Trends

Modern Furniture : Encapsulating the Changing Nepali Lifestyle

Two quintessential qualities of furniture - creating an aesthetically pleasing ambience if placed creatively and facilitating daily human activities to the level of comfort- are what have made it so . . . Read more »

Qatar Airways’ First Passenger Flight to Chicago

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Imperial Associates & Coding Packing Solution

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Saurabh Group Leading Strong

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Creative Break for MBA Students

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Management Gyan

Staff Capacity Development in Human Resource Management : Time to Act

Human resource management (HRM) is a function in organizations designed to maximize employee performance in service of their employers’ strategic objectives. HRM is primarily concerned with how people are managed within organizations, focusing on policies and systems. . . . Read more »

Tourism And Civil Aviation

Tourism and Civil Aviation News November 2015

The four-star American chain hotel, Fairfield Marriott which is being built at the tourist hub of Thamel in the capital will commence operation from Mar/April 2016. “The hotel will start its services from Mar/Apr next year,” said Shashikant Agrawal, managing director of MS Group, the Nepali partner of the project. . . . Read more »

Feedback

Feedback October 2016

I would like to extend my congratulation all winners of the 3rd Newbiz Conclave and Awards 2016. . . . Read more »

Best Print Advertisement Published on NBA 2073-74

Best Print Advertising Award to Business Advantage

Business Advantage has bagged the 'Best Print Advertising Award'. The advertising agency was declared as the winner for its advertising design of Nabil Bank. The awards were presented on various . . . Read more »

Business Education

Become a Technocrat through M.Sc (ITM) at LBEF

IT management has become a vital tool to ensure the smooth functioning of the digital world as unmanaged data and information can translate into huge losses for businesses, governments and consumers . . . Read more »

China Southern to Start Guangzhou-Moscow Flights

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‘Orient has a very big potential in Nepal’

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COFFEE: Hot Drinks Versus Hot Business

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Danish and Nepali Business Partnerships

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Management Gyan

Being Social Means Being in Business

Way back in my college days at the Padma Kanya College and later at the Tri-Chandra College, I often spent my mornings at this newspaper shop, Dhurba Stationery, in the slope of Dillibazar. It put up a wide range of newspapers and magazines on stands and allowed its visitors to read them . . . Read more »

Economy and Policy

The Indian Economic Blockade and Nepal’s Strategic Rethink about its ‘Special Relations’

The first ever MOU signed between Nepal and China for importing fuel will go down in history as a veritable turning point. It will not only have ended the Indian monopoly but, significantly, opened . . . Read more »

Corporate Focus

NCHL: Making Payments Efficient

Promoted by Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), commercial banks, development banks, finance companies and Smart Choice Technologies Pvt Ltd (SCT), Nepal Clearing House Ltd (NCHL) . . . Read more »

Best Print Advertisement Published on NBA 2073-74

NEWS in Advertising: A Darwinian Perspective

In 1859, Charles Darwin wrote a book titled, “On the Origin of Species.” The book talks about the famous Theory of Evolution which states that only the strong species will survive and evolve in . . . Read more »

Information Technology

Digital Transformation : A Pathway to an Impactful HR Department

With everything around the world going digital, many organizations are already adopting software solutions for works of marketing and finance departments. In today’s highly competitive business . . . Read more »

Etihad Moves to Uttardhoka

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‘We do not want to become just a marketing company’

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From Poverty to Ingenuity

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Online Reputation Management

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Economy and Policy

Impact of Remittance on Import in Nepal

With remittances, an economy can spend more than it produces, import more than it exports or invest more than it saves, and this might even be more relevant for small economies. . . . Read more »

Management Gyan

Inside the Organisational Mind

Discussions about business assume a sense of perpetual dynamic equilibrium. We are told that nothing is certain except change, and that winners are always prepared for change. . . . Read more »

From the Editor

Case against CIAA

This is the time to say “Down with the CIAA”. This is not just a demand for the abolition of this anti-graft body. It is also the reason for such a demand. The entire Nepali economy as well as . . . Read more »

Personality

A Determined Sherpa

Creating an international brand never has been easy for Nepalis. But the dedication and hard work of this entrepreneur and his family has established an outdoor clothing brand that competes with the . . . Read more »

Startup Scene

Foodmario: Creating a Market for Home Cooked Meals

Like in many other areas of the retail sector in Nepal, the food delivery business is also witnessing an e-commerce boom at present. Nowadays, many websites and their mobile apps have been trying to . . . Read more »

Grounded NAC Aircraft to Resume Flights within Three Months: Tourism Minister

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Feedback April 2013

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A Liberal Feminist

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UML’s Throb to Democratize

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Economy and Policy

Revenue Mobilization:Policy Challenges

Nepal as a low-income country is characterized by typical features like dependency on agriculture, income from remittances and fragility. As remittance from workers abroad and a good harvest contributes a major portion of the GDP, there are significant weaknesses in government . . . Read more »

Development Partners

KTM Global Shapers : Shaping Nepal’s Future

Nepal's own Global Shapers Hub came into being in 2012, when Aashmi Rajya Laxmi Rana, herself a Young Global Leader, founded the Global Shapers Kathmandu . . . Read more »

No Laughing Matter

Development from Destruction

The government had back in May declared that Nepal will achieve an economic growth rate of 6.5 per cent this year. Everyone said it was not possible. It would be great if the growth rate which was . . . Read more »

Interview

“Our focus in Nepal is on hard infrastructure and human capacity development”

The history of Japan’s official development assistance to Nepal began with the opening of office of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (JOVC) in 1970. In 1978, the office of the Japan . . . Read more »

Corporate Focus

Warsteiner : Himalayan Waters German Taste

Raj Brewery, a subsidiary of Jawalakhel Group of Industries (JGI), has started the commercial production of Warsteiner, a premium German beer brand, in Nepal. The production and bottling of . . . Read more »

Pradeep Kumar Vice President -International Operations (Auto & Farm sectors) Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd

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Fears of Polls Going Futile

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Completing 40 years in Nepal

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‘‘We will definitely grow in Nepal’’

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Spine Column

Back Pain: Is Bed Rest the Only Solution?

After common cold, back pain is the most common ailment to affect an individual. Four out of five individuals will experience an episode of back pain once in their life time. Hence, back and neck pain is the most common reason for consulting a spine surgeon. Fortunately, majority of the pain subsides in two weeks . . . Read more »

Stock Taking

Why S&P 500 is expected to make an important low on 26th November, 2015 at 13:43 NEWYORK TIME ?

You will see every time when the planet Venus travels the sign of Libra at 19.48 degree, the S&P makes an important low there. Not once or twice or thrice, but in year 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 . . . Read more »

Nepal Politics

Goodbye, Mr Lokman!

CIAA Chief Lokman Singh Karki is a peculiar character. It is not easy to understand him. He ignores the Supreme Court (SC) and its notices served on him as if the apex court means nothing to him. . . . Read more »

Management Gyan

Public Relations : A Promising Career Choice

Business has never been conducted in isolation. It is very much part and parcel of society and supplying its demands for products and services in the form of a commercial venture. But these demands . . . Read more »

Cover Story

A Win-Win Strategy for Liquidity Management

Nepal needs massive investment for its economic growth. We should be very careful while designing economic policies that must support the long-term economic growth objectives of the government. The current level of investment, though meeting the annual target set by the . . . Read more »

Cliff Reeves, General Manager of Microsoft Corp. for Strategic & Emerging Business Team

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Voices February 2013

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“Nepal-India-China Trilateral Mechanism Needed for Nepal’s Power Development”

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“We have the widest and largest distribution network in Nepal”

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Stock Taking

Waiting for Confirmation Signal

​Nepal’s secondary market turned little green with hopes that agreement between major political parties on contentious issues of new constitution was underway. The Nepse index accelerated 66.19 points or 7.38 per cent to close at 962.80. . . . Read more »

Human Resources

Solo HR Trends in SMEs : Challenges and Opportunities

Concept of Solo HR Practice is trending in the small and medium size organisations of Nepal which is challenging as well as an opportunity to grow for all the solo HR Practitioners as “one professional one department.” . . . Read more »

Biztoon

Biztoon November 2016

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Living +

SHOE DOG : A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable . . . Read more »

Cover Story

Credit Crunch : Beyond a Wake Up Call For Banking Sector

Times are hard for Nepali banks and financial institutions (BFIs). They have been struggling with the ongoing shortage of loanable funds which started in December 2017. From construction of . . . Read more »

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