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Classifying the mobile phone buyers in India (Part 1)
Avoiding Reality!
The ‘Buzz’ about Product launches & the tradeoffs therein
India, which way to go?
Hats off to Rahul Gandhi!
Battlefield of Economics, Politics & Power
IPL 2010 – Indian Political League!
The iPad: Strategic Insights on Another Piece of Stunning Gadgetry from Apple
The mystique & hype of Apple’s product launches
Has outsourcing made us READY for the next technology revolution in India ?
Student suicides – What is the real problem?
Why 3 Idiots Is Not The Best Movie Made- The Flaws and A Critique’s View
Bash the Bankers ! – Updated 17/1
Digging deep Down Under !
What exactly is a brand?
Making Money with Open Source !
The Start Up Visa
South Block (MEA) holding India back?
3 Idiots – All is well! Really?
3 things to look forward to in 2010
Only Businesses that THRILL win in the long term!
What keeps you going? – The Motivating factor
3 Idiots – the Publicity campaign
The Indian TEDdy
The worst company in this world is ….. Governments
WiMAX – Coming soon to a network near you
4 Mails and a Funeral
Issues of today’s India
What is hindering the popularity of Interest Rate Futures in India?
What next -Social Search ?
The age of extreme customisation!
Why Buffalo neednt fear Bangalore!
Mahrashtra elections – Increasing voter turnout
Impact of Converging communications media
Losing the ‘Education’ edge
IBM : Big Blue goes Smart Green…
Game Development Outsourcing in India
Why did the Taurus project of LSE fail?
The ‘touch’ revolution!
Corporate Social Responsibility – Looking from a different angle
Sons of the Soil – The story of Bhumi
Innovation and Twitter’s growing eco-system
Phones and Location Based Services!
An Overview of Online Privacy and Security (With a Focus on Google)
Windows 7 – Make or Break for Microsoft?
Growing the Telecom crop in Rural India
How open source is (already) changing the world
The need for more IITs and IIMs
The force of Force India!
Business of Movie Trailers
IPOs – How good they are as investments?
Cricket: T-20, ODIs and Game theory
Humpty Dumpty, Alice in Wonderland and Rip Van Winkle: The Road Ahead for the BJP
Why India should agree to emission growth limits at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 2009
Steel – Made in China??
Middle of the diamond
Facebook-focussed startups
India should do away with 500 and 1,000 Rupee notes
IPOs are no longer the same
IBNLive.com – the good, the bad and the ugly
Strat.In initiative: Startup September – Call for articles!
The ABCD of Tata Croma’s newly-wed offer
Road Ahead for Maruti Suzuki – a semi-insider’s view
Path Breaking Strategy by Levi’s
Chaos and assorted ramblings about management by numbers and judgment calls
A look at SPAM – the underworld of the internet!
In-flight Magazines – An Opportunity Being Wasted And How Airlines Can Get More Creative!
Google Guruji
Is Democracy good for economic growth?
Opinion 2.0 !
Apple iPhone and its India Strategy
Kaminey, Swine Flu & Lessons learnt
Incredible Indian – JOE MADIATH
Incredible Indians- Dhirubhai Ambani
MS Dhoni: A Case Study In Reactive Leadership
Facebook Lite!
Incredible Indians – Bollywood Heroes
Incredible Indians – Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw
Incredible Indians
Death of Time!
Democracy and demography
Synergies arising from Facebook – Friendfeed deal
Transaction costs and Investment Banking
Corporate Social Responsibility: The giving part
The Free Phone Concept and India
Why are the Ramayana and Mahabharata so different (and make good case studies)
Rakhi and her dramatic Swayamvar: What sells in Indian Television
Facebook Pages: Viral Marketing at its best!
Incredible Indians Contest!
Dollar Independence
Insights into the Indian Radio Industry
Why Amazon Is Yet To Capture The Indian Market..and Mindset
Reflections – Gods and Humans
Why did Ferrari go back to Michael Schumacher?
A Holistic Approach towards Educational Reforms
Reflections: GOD – He is back
The biggest deal in the Global Steel Industry: Arcelor Mittal (2/2)
The WHY of BingHoo! – Bing – Yahoo deal
India’s opportunities: The Hotel Industry
The Devil Advocates the Cigarette
Game and Metagame: Part 3… Force Multipliers, schoolyard fights, The Afghan war and the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae
The existential dilemma
The biggest deal in the Global Steel Industry: Arcelor Mittal (1/2)
How Technology is changing the Wealth Management/Personal Finance industry
MTV : music to masala….
India’s own news channel: India TV
About Porsche and Volkswagen
The web has a long way to go
Reflections: The Art of Indirect Speech
Business from the cosmos
Hollywood – One Industry to rule them all
The miracle we call Cell Phone
How did Twitter become popular?
Showing its Colors
Divide & Rule – A strategy lesson
Practiced solutions to Bureaucracy
How The Dark Knight helped The Shawshank Redemption pip The Godfather I as the best movie in IMDb 250
Government blaming the IT Sector Now?
Google v/s Microsoft: The Showdown Continues…….
Strat.In: Quiz#1
Systematic evolution of Bureaucracy
Of Reality and Reality shows!
Does India need a 21st century Chanakya?
Why Indians, but not India lead in Research?
Why Every Market Needs a Tight SLAP !!!
Connecting Bharat!
Passports – Why are they still in use?
Lessons from the Weekend movie
Compare People – Why? Part 2
Hitler: An Idol??
Budget 2009:Of decent economics and misguided expectations..
Teach Lead Transform – Teach for India
Game and Metagame: Part 2… Grinding, The Indian Education System, Quake III and World of Warcraft
Runup to Budget 2009: Exchange Traded Funds are for you and me
Is Right always right?
Perceptions: the world as we see it?
Runup to Budget 2009: Stock market and Mango man (aam aadmi)
Relationships and personality – A comprehensive classification!
Detachment and leadership
Debt, Equity and One-sided Contracts…
Of Bridges and related symbolisms
Critics: Trash, Box Office: Gold
How MBAs killed Superman (and fundaes behind Modern Retail)
Does Apple have a self-imposed maximum market share limit?
Disruptive Innovation in the Indian Telecom Industry by Tata DoCoMo
From Yahoo! Messenger to Gtalk
The end of the Xth standard
fLAWed
What is CCD, as a brand, up to?
iPhone, Apple and Happy Customers!
Where only a few men have gone before….. Part 2 of 2
The Twenty-first Century: How is it going to be?
Game and Metagame: Part 1… A game of Chess
Compare people – Why?
Why Archie won’t marry Veronica (and how that is bad for the industry)
Where only a few men have gone before….. Part 1 of 2
From Innocence to Adolescence
Breakpoints -Analysing Technology Job Profiles
India at World T20 – What went wrong?
Dont be a Leader… Be a Thought-Leader!!
The business of Green Buildings!
Strat. In Contest – Comment 2 Win
“Real” reforms: Delivering justice in India
Strategy for a Strike!
Why Obama’s plan can fail …
Leveraging social media for profits
US- China Trade Relations: Lessons from History
ImProbabLe
The Selfish Meme
Real World Lessons From Federer’s French Open Triumph
Indian Markets May 2009 – A Review
Sino-Indian “Tug Of War”: Part 1: Nepal
Of Hybrids and EVs
Disabled Thinking
Power of Concentration
“Reforms” in India: Are we confusing the means with the end?
Eradication of Urban Slums in India: A Pipe Dream?
Let’s go for a movie next week
How does your average Indian student make a career choice?
Microsoft back with a BING?
There is no room for cutbacks!
How to fool the Red Billion out of a Trillion
Equity Fund Performance V/s Index Funds in recent times
Customer Retention Strategy at Airtel
China flexing its muscles around India?
Recession! It was predicted in 2006 itself!
Colonized Again?
Rain Water Harvesting Success
Google and the ebook war
I want to pay tax like a company!
More US visas for Indian IT companies ?
How is the US able to spend so much more than its Income?
Why did the BJP do so badly?
Search Engine, Computational Knowledge Engine & Decision Engine!
China US Relationship (2/2) – How should India react?
How Google has always managed to be on top
LTTE and the war in Sri Lanka
Viral campaigns, the new “in” thing
Comparing EPL & IPL
Let’s understand Grooveshark!
When the Left is sometimes right…
Let us kick the MBA (when they are down)
Everything about Fake IPL Player – Part 2
Why should the US Govt just let the recession continue rather than meddling with it?
Marketing Vodafone or the Zoozoo
All communications to be monitored in India
Of Timing, Diapers & Governance!
Billions of Entrepreneurs in India?
Why does India need a strong BJP?
China US relationship (1/2)
(Don’t) Talk to Strangers!
Debt vs. Equity – A Tax Bias?
Everything about Fake IPL Player – Part 1
The Indian TARP
Political Parties should continue Online Campaigns!
World Economy: Green Shoots or Burning Forest?
Wolfram Alpha – A threat to Google?
India’s First 1 Crore Compensation against a Hospital
Who’s going to reach the IPL semifinal? Download the IPL Predictor!
Business school competitions and bull market hubris…
Of farmer suicides and questions not asked….
Antitrust Laws in the wake of Intel Fine
The Pilgrimage Story
Let the Exit polls begin!
Ratan Tata – Too Fast Too Far
Where are Search Engines headed?
The WHY behind the Khans patchup
M&A Synergies Demystified….
Stress Testing of US Banks
India & China – approaches to development
Elections need technology revolution
The 5 buck snack
Does the new Vodafone campaign work?
Sony TV India Brand Relaunch
Distribution – Redefined – Part 2
Oracle’s take over of Sun Microsystems
Distribution – Redefined – Part 1
Tata Nano – Shining Star of Tata Motors
IPL Perspectives
A “Politically” incorrect Entrepreneurship?
DLF – Trying to survive the real estate bust
US Auto industry – Is it in terminal decline (2/2)
Vodafone Zoozoos are the new Hutch Puppies
Advertising, at its very best!
Hulu – winning the online video battle
US Auto Industry – Is it in terminal decline?(1/2)
Telecom – Airtel vs Reliance Communications
Management Research in B-Schools
Why CAT should always be offline
Micro-Insurance in Mumbai Local
CAT goes online!
Unbranding Kolkata Knight Riders
Chembur Market lessons
What next for twitter?
Hiring in US, Firing in India by Indian IT
Radio Taxi Business
F1 Strategy
The Little Shoot on the Stem
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