Media sources indicate that Bharti Airtel may rope in  Ernst & Young (E&Y) to do a due diligence on South African telecom major MTN, the company with which it is in talks for a complex mutual acquisition of equity to form one of the top telecom conglomerates of the world MTN is speculated to appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to do a due diligence on Bharti...

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India had been on a dream run for the last 3 years, but the year 2008 came as a sudden jolt. The FMCG industry worldwide faced unprecedented swings in external factors that included food price inflation, crude price hikes and global economic downturn. All these threaten to take their toll in 2009. The key question is will FMCG companies in India remain insulated from...

Consultants cannot always be right, they also make mistakes, says the Mckinsey India boss who believes consulting is coming of age in India. Adil Zainulbhai is a good sport — he doesn’t mind when I ask him if he’s heard all the McKinsey jokes. “I love them,” he says. In fact, the McKinsey India managing director’s down to earth attitude, candour and sense...

Will eBook reader devices “Kindle” the readers? Kindle - the new device launched by Amazon is promising a newer “reading interface” for books in an electronic form. It is assuring that a reader will have a device in his palm that looks and reads like real paper, on a sharp and high-resolution screen. Will this happen?  Will readers absorb e-Books to the extent...

The emergence of several large and small players across the world that are able to provide cheaper labour needs to be watched As the future of outsourcing changes, the healthcare industry in the developing world is bound to adapt to those changes. Some of the key factors that drive outsourcing in the future would centre on demographics, education, labour mobility and...

A friend of mine, a recent graduate from one of the premier business schools in India, called me, his predicament, he is an engineer from a tier-2 engineering college in India and an MBA, and yet, he has not managed to even remotely come close to a job offer His business school finished the placement season few months back, after managing to place approximately 50 percent...

Technorati Profile In 1995, I was chief executive of the investment management group John Govett when it was sold to Allied Irish Banks. AIB was in excellent company in buying an asset management business, inspired by the blue bloods of the consulting profession such as BCG and McKinsey. A booming asset manager was a “must have” for dynamic bank boards in Europe,...

I wonder how many people remember Viren Rasquinha, the former hockey Olympian, who quit playing in early 2007. Viren was at the peak of his career to pursue his MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB). Viren begins a new innings as a Chief Operating Officer with the Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ).  OGQ is a non-profit organization that works to identify and support talented...

Want to know where the opportunities are, right now? Want to know what industries will pull us out of this mess? Well you need to watch where all the smart people go. For the last 10 years the industry of choice for the best and brightest was financial services. The sexy choice was media. Well the media is certainly not about to start hiring in a big way, and while financial...