Roger Martin The Man: The Dean at the Rotman School of Management, Toronto, gave us the terms Integrative Thinking and Design Thinking; showed us why its important to draw lessons from diverse fields to learn and innovate; his latest book is on what capitalism can learn from the National Football League. He tells CEOs how to remain true to ones character in the face of capital market pressure. The Oeuvre:...
12:43:05 PM May 23, 2012
Subroto Bagchi The Man: Up until March, when he was made the chairman of Mindtree, Subroto Bagchi had one of the coolest job titles in the whole of IT industry"gardener. His role was to nurture the top 100 leaders of Mindtree, a company he co-founded with eight others in 1999. He says the only way you can get obedience and compliance is on a platform of morality. The Oeuvre: Wrote...
12:13:37 PM May 23, 2012
Gurcharan Das The Man: Gurcharan Das's second career as a writer and public intellectual is more noticed and in some ways far more influential than his first as a professional manager. It spanned 30 years, and across six countries and included a term as CEO of Procter & Gamble India. His writings drew from his experience and also from his wide reading. He tells us that individuals could be immoral...
11:58:47 AM May 23, 2012
Nata Menabde Age: 52 Designation: WHO Representative to India Education: MSc in Pharmacy, PhD in Pharmacology Career: Nearly 20 years at WHO; was deputy regional director for Europe before coming to India in 2010 Interests: Plays the piano and guitar. Likes classical music, jazz, water sports, history and Russian literature Q. What are the top three challenges in healthcare in India? Communicable diseases remain part of the unfinished agenda for...
02:17:55 PM May 12, 2012
Be careful. Very careful. "Bad management theories are destroying good management practices". That is what Sumantra Ghoshal, one of the most respected voices in the world on what management ought to be like, argued in a path breaking paper by the same name. It was published shortly after he died in 2004 and continues to hold resonance even today. It was written when a wave of devastating corporate scandals had...
01:46:14 PM May 12, 2012
Kamal K Sharma Designation: Managing Director, Lupin The Challenge: To enter the Japanese market, the world's second largest pharmaceutical market How He Did It: By entering the market with a partner and using them to understand the nuances. Lupin eventually bought the partner out, but made sure no changes were made to its management or operations In Japan, you just can't walk in and do business. It is a market...
04:46:09 PM May 11, 2012
Of all the people in the world, I shouldnt be a producer, says Anurag Kashyap. I dont understand accounts. But someone has to step up and make these movies, he adds. Kashyap, for those who dont know, is best known as the director of 'Black Friday' and 'Dev D'. For those in the know, Kashyap is an uncompromising film-maker who makes the films he wants to make. One of his...
11:49:16 AM May 10, 2012
Arindam is an RI, a Returning Indian, as the new acronym goes in migrationspeak. His Facebook page informs his friends that he's "pinged 105 cities across the world". So when our car crosses Melli, on the Bengal-Sikkim border, his voice is a stubble of sounds: "Imagine, I've never been to Sikkim!" I like that exclamation mark and provoke it with promises of the unseen. We are headed to Namchi"at a...
11:20:31 AM May 08, 2012
Early in 2011, Baskar Babu, CEO of Suryoday Micro Finance, felt the heat of being in a sector that financiers didn't fancy. The sector's growth depended on supply of credit from banks, and that had dried out. A year earlier, the Andhra Pradesh government had passed a law that, in effect, brought down the recovery rates in the state to a single digit from 95 per cent earlier. Bankers feared...
12:07:12 PM May 02, 2012
Deepak Marda still remembers that fateful day on campus. In early 2007, the 34-year-old IITian was studying at the Stanford Graduate School of Business when Alejanadro Ramirez, the CEO of Cinepolis, Mexicos biggest movie exhibition company and worlds fourth largest, came to address the class. This was the opportunity that Marda and two of his batchmates, Milan Saini who like Marda was doing a mid-career management course after spending a...
11:50:32 AM May 02, 2012
David Davidar Age: 53 Profile: Co-Founder and MD, Aleph Book Company Career: Over 25 years as a publishing professional. Founder-publisher of Penguin India at age 26; was then variously CEO & Publisher, Penguin India; MD, Dorling Kindersley India; CEO, Pearson India; Publisher, Penguin Canada; President & Publisher, Penguin Canada; CEO, Penguin International Education: BSc, Madras University; Diploma in Publishing, Harvard University Interests: Tennis, swimming, music, movies, books. Q. Worldwide, publishing"as...
06:35:36 PM Apr 30, 2012
Here's a Pick of the best, the latest, the greenest, the quirkiest, the most luxurious... that money can buy. Run Mister Run If all the exercise you get is the bit when you move your hands around to strike an imaginary tennis ball on your Wii, it is probably time you got running, sir. Run like the wind on Technogym's Jog Now while you're watching episodes of South Park and...
10:54:59 AM Apr 27, 2012
Perched on the terrace of Lafarge India's six-storey construction development lab at Andheri East, Mumbai are two very incongruous huts. The structures look out of place in the grey, concrete landscape of the Mumbai suburb. Twenty tonnes of bright red mud and sticks were hauled up the stairs to build them. Here in the sea of dish antennae and mobile towers, they certainly stand out. One of them has been...
01:37:14 PM Apr 24, 2012
I can't call myself classy, it's for other people to say that. I can only say that this is what I have seen, this is what I have imbibed, and this is how I am. Class is intangible, almost indefinable. It is a summing up of the parts so that they become more than the whole. It has to do with dignity, subtlety, with a layered subtext where much more...
01:33:55 PM Apr 24, 2012
The port of Pipavav should have made money hand over fist ever since it started operations in 1998. After all, located deep in the Saurashtra region in south Gujarat, it is a gateway port that caters to landlocked regions like Delhi, the National Capital Region, Punjab and also the rich states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. It handles more reefer trains (refrigerated trains that carry fish, meat, etc) than any...
10:59:31 AM Apr 21, 2012
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