Following is a guest post by Satej Salvi The much expected Uniform Code for Pharma Marketing Practices (UCPMP) was finally released by the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) on June 2nd, 2011. It curbs any kind of gifts to doctors, restricts hospitality and meetings, prescribes guidelines around promotional material including drug samples and expects detailed accounting...

Following is a guest post by Nitin Kesan Alright, so you’ve read how-to articles on websites exhorting you to build on multiple skills before you can shift from your current industry profile onto your preferred advisory/consulting role. But the question is, does that advice work for you? If not, then who should you bet your money on? Well, at the risk of sounding clichéd,...

Following is a guest post by Nitin Kesan While going through ‘Consulting Network’, I must confess I was a bit surprised to find professionals from a diverse set of industry backgrounds looking for advice and seeking to break into the consulting arena. The reasons are not hard to find. Consulting offers a challenging work profile, coupled with an attractive remuneration...

[This is a guest post from Florian Hollender at KillerConsultant.com, Killer Consultant is a leading resource for young consultants] Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” ) Business travel arguably is an art of its own. Some love it, some hate it....

Following points have been gathered by collating views of various contributors on our LinkedIn Group. 1, Over projection of business plans(conservative plans are always better) 2.Quick money/overnight money overtaking passion as driver. 3. Too large work force instead of optimum 4. Less control over expenses 5.Failure to asses results MoM/QoQ (since startups are too small...

The April Fools’ Day ushered in a new era for the Indian Education sector and the entire nation as a whole. Something that should have been initiated 60 years back is finally happening and it can only be ‘better late than never’. The Right to Education (RTE) Act came into force  today and it has made education a fundamental right for all children between the age...

With Barack Obama inking the Health Care reforms bill last month, the question is who, apart from the 32 million uninsured, would get a piece out of this trillion dollar pie coming straight out of tax-payers’ pockets? With India featuring among the 14 destinations that can offer cheaper drugs as named by the Congress, it is but certain that Indian pharma companies would...