..It’s only when u miss...Today’s Morning Joe on MSNBC had some of the funniest moments on a TV news show since Chris Matthews took conservative radio talk show host Kevin James on the issue of appeasement.
The topic of discussion this morning was the money that former New York Stock Exchange chairman, Richard Grasso had taken home, roughly $190 million. [...]
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… is a company sans pareil. (Here’s one reason why.)
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A question I encountered in an article I read this past week:
Can organizations motivated by the need to make profits and please shareholders successfully conduct basic scientific research as a core activity?
There is some personal significance to that question; hence categorizing it under “Personal” as well.
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Is in-house innovation at companies so critical as we are made to believe?
My take is that it is not. Because we confuse change with innovation, we think that the one is the other. Companies should be nimble-footed, so that they can absorb innovations* that are not theirs and move forward. In my opinion, rapid and [...]
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“The corporation is not a social experience.” - Albert J. Dunlap in “Mean Business”
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Mritiunjoy Mohanty, Assistant Professor at IIM Calcutta, writes in Rediff in an article entitled “Why criticising the Rs 1-lakh car is wrong“.
Whereas the author (selectively) makes a case for car from the economic and energy pespectives, he does not at all address the issue of India’s urban infrastructure, or the lack of it. Cars, as [...]
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The Hindu has published a long-pending editorial on the ongoing credit crunch in the US which is a result of housing lenders competing against each other in the recent past to provide home loans to unqualified people without properly assessing the long-term risk of their actions. Promptly, the editorial cites the chances of a similar [...]
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Adrianne Yamaki, a 32-year-old management consultant in New York, travels constantly and logs 80-hour work weeks. To eke out more minutes for herself, she routinely farms out the administrative chores of her life - making travel arrangements, hair appointments, restaurant reservations and buying show tickets - to a personal-assistant service, in India.
The Bangalore butler is [...]
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Okay, as expected, India have lost to Sri Lanka. Of the defeat, the lesser said the better.
But, don’t count India out of the World Cup yet!
The powers that be of Indian and world cricket know all too well that the money and viewership for this sport comes primarily from the subcontinent. Come on, did we [...]
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Sensex? Senf***ed-up!
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No, there is no billion or million after the 1; and no, this is no prank. In this age of skyrocketing salaries and ever-bulging paypackets, some American CEOs are actually taking home a solitary dollar for their year’s toils. Chris Gaither of the LA Times opines that the one-dollar salary is America’s latest status symbol.
As [...]
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Sun TV, which had hit the capital markets with a 600-crore IPO, listed on the bourses today. And boy, was it a super-duper hit! The IPO, with an offer price of Rs. 875, opened above Rs. 1000 at start of trade today. But as the day wore on, it breached 1100, 1200, 1300 and finally [...]
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clumsy artwork: Yours truly
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In a February 15 article on Rediff.com - Narayana Murthy wows Washington elite - Aziz Haniffa sings praises of India’s international software icon. The Chairman of Infosys Technologies is, without doubt, the face of Indian software. But he has also transcended into a kind of statesman-CEO voicing his views on areas not directly under his [...]
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For more than a month now, State Bank of India has been running ad campaigns - basically a set of teaser questions, all of which end with a matter-of-fact “SURPRISINGLY SBI”.I particularly liked the ad campaign, because SBI is probably the only “old bank” that I respect and would like to bank with. If you [...]
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Today, there was an Airtel ad in the papers promising all existing and new subscribers a free air ticket for travel within India. In the era of low-cost air travel, this gimmick shouldn’t come as a surprise… until you read the fine print.Customers opting for this scheme would be required to pay a non-refundable deposit [...]
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Despite the wealth of available literature and also given the fact that every second person you meet claims to be an expert in this art, financial markets aren’t as easy to predict as many would like us to believe.
Consider the BSE Sensex for example. Since May, it has rallied around 1500 points. That’s an increase [...]
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Newspapers in Chennai do not report about the placement in colleges. The Hindu, for example, comfortably chooses to ignore even the $150,000 a year job offers dished out to IIM graduates. But yesterday’s (May 31, 2005) issue carried an article on the first page which screamed “Tamil Nadu wins hands down in terms of quantity [...]
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