ICICI bank changing gears – ditching ATM’s and unsecured loans
Do what you do best and outsource the rest. There is no time like recession to re-think your business strategy.…
Bharti Airtel bitten by the conglomerization bug – 9 new verticals !
Conglomerization is nothing new to India. Almost all the business houses are obsessed with spinning off separate business units. Sometimes…
Tata group the most trustworthy company in India
Someone felt that Ratan Tata could be India's Barack Obama. That comparison was wrong on two accounts. One, Ratan Tata…
Sterlite to buy Asarco for $1.7 bn
Vedanta Resources has made a $1.7 bn takeover bid for US based copper miner Asarco. Vedanta will be using Sterlite…
The reverse brain drain is real
When Mohan Bhargava, a NASA scientist in the US, returns back to his village in India he is not really…
Collaborate to compete and think win-win
Think win-win : One of the 7 habits of highly effective people. Cost cutting, employee firing and land selling are…
Is it high time we got some Casinos in India?
Where is the biggest casino in India? I bet many of us cannot answer that question. The closest answer is…
When should a startup pull the plug?
Started in 1981 Infosys was on the verge of collapse after 8 years when a joint venture with Kurt Salmon…
RIL-RPL are merging. Who will benefit?
Who will benefit? definitely not Chevron. Chevron has a 5% stake in Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL). It bought the stake…
3 things I was waiting for: Number portability, broadcasters not controlling distribution, ban on cheque drop boxes
Something like this has happened few days ago where I had 3 WTF moments in the business world. One of…