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SDGs · 16 Sep 2026
How Indian B-Schools Should Count Decent Work Under SDG 8 Without Inflating Placement Brochures

An SDGs Series playbook for placement cells and IQAC: tie internships and offers to Targets 8.5, 8.6 and 8.8, publish unpaid rows, and keep the orange tile off the brochure until the register can be audited.

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ESG · 15 Sep 2026
How Indian Credit Committees Should Treat Climate Risk in Working-Capital Lines

An ESG Series playbook for banks and NBFCs: put physical and transition risk into the cash-credit file with six lines a committee can act on this quarter, without waiting for a vendor score.

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Research · 14 Sep 2026
How to Write an R-and-R Response Letter That Recovers the Paper Without Surrendering It

A Research Series playbook for the revise-and-resubmit letter: map every comment, match tone to the editor, implement or refuse with a reason, and send a packet an associate editor can audit in one sitting.

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Career & Interview Tips · 13 Sep 2026
How to Write a Research-and-Teaching Statement That Survives an Indian Faculty Shortlist

A Career Series playbook for early-faculty candidates: write a scorable two-to-three-page statement that names a 24-month pipeline, the courses you can take in July, and the API file a mixed committee can defend.

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Policy Analysis Series · 12 Sep 2026
How Indian Scholars Should Read an RBI Circular Before They Cite It

A Policy Analysis Series playbook for researchers and teachers: treat the circular as an instrument, name the addressee and effective date, open the annex, and cite so a referee can retrieve the same paragraph.

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AI & Business · 11 Sep 2026
How Indian CFOs Should Govern GenAI in Finance Operations Before the Auditor Asks

An AI & Business Series playbook for controllers and CFOs: inventory the unofficial stack, fence the ledger, keep a named human on every material output, and hand the statutory auditor a one-page note that can be tested.

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Teaching · 10 Sep 2026
How to Give Written Feedback First-Generation Commerce Students Will Actually Use

A Teaching Series playbook for 60-student B.Com. and MBA sections: budget the ink, write verbs a student can execute in twenty minutes, and close the loop without doubling the marking load.

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SDGs · 09 Sep 2026
How Indian Campuses Can Map Programmes to SDGs Without SDG-Washing

An SDGs Series playbook for IQAC teams and programme chairs: map courses and campus operations to official targets and indicators, keep five Goals you can actually move, and retire icon grids that cannot survive a peer-team question.

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ESG · 08 Sep 2026
How Indian Boards Should Read ESG Rating Divergence

An ESG Series briefing on treating vendor-score disagreement as a diagnostic for boards, CFOs and lenders—mapping BRSR line items, naming the engine of the gap, and refusing to cherry-pick the flattering logo.

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Research · 07 Sep 2026
How to Write an Identification Section That Survives Reviewer 2

A Research Series playbook on matching causal verbs to design, naming threats before reviewers do, and using Indian institutions as sources of variation rather than local colour.

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Research · 06 Sep 2026
How to Write a Contribution Paragraph Editors Cannot Ignore

A Research Mastery playbook on writing contribution paragraphs that name the tension, the move and the audience—so editors can see what is new before they open the tables.

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Research · 03 Sep 2026
From Desk Rejection to Acceptance: A Practical Playbook for Early-Career Academics

A full-length Research Mastery briefing on how to diagnose a desk reject, rebuild the first three pages, choose the next journal with intent, and convert a silent failure into a publishable manuscript.

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