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Do what you do best and outsource the rest. There is no time like recession to re-think your business strategy. Recession is also the time to know what wasn't working and work towards what will work. That seems to be what every company…

Conglomerization is nothing new to India. Almost all the business houses are obsessed with spinning off separate business units. Sometimes in related fields and sometimes in totally unrelated fields. It is so prevalent that even Infosys…

Someone felt that Ratan Tata could be India's Barack Obama. That comparison was wrong on two accounts. One, Ratan Tata does not talk about change but just brings it. Two, Ratan Tata has accomplished a lot so far and Barack Obama hasn't done…

Vedanta Resources has made a $1.7 bn takeover bid for US based copper miner Asarco. Vedanta will be using Sterlite Industries for the bid. The deal is $1.1 bn in cash and $600 mn to be paid over the period of 9 years. Sterlite has made a…

When Mohan Bhargava, a NASA scientist in the US, returns back to his village in India he is not really sure what to expect. He hires a caravan and hoards it with mineral water. From his high-end life in the US where everything is just a…

Think win-win : One of the 7 habits of highly effective people. Cost cutting, employee firing and land selling are the few measures we have seen companies do till now. Few companies like HCL are sharing the risks with their customers.…

Where is the biggest casino in India? I bet many of us cannot answer that question.  The closest answer is Goa. The reason it is the closest answer is because there are no casinos within India. Goa considered as India's only casino hub…

Started in 1981 Infosys was on the verge of collapse after 8 years when a joint venture with Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA) has collapsed. The Infosys-KSA joint venture was Infosys's attempt to break into American market. If Mr. Murthy has…

Who will benefit? definitely not Chevron. Chevron has a 5% stake in Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL). It bought the stake 3 years ago for 60 rupees per share. If it doesn't raise the stake now to 29%, it will get the same amount of money it…

Something like this has happened few days ago where I had 3 WTF moments in the business world. One of them was the $10 laptop (oops electronic brick) Today's 3 things are little different and are actually useful. All in a day's work.…