Constrat – Transforming Strategy Who says B-Schools are simply temples of learning? From hereon, B-Schools wont remain ‘just B-Schools’ and MBA students would no longer be ‘just students’. Gone would be the concept of Corporate biggies & Companies competing with their rivals ‘only’ on the industrial floor. Companies would bid, outbid, pick up stakes,...

L Brooks Entwistle, MD and CEO of Goldman Sachs (India) Securities offered following tips to aspirants planning to carve a career in firms like Mckinsey and Goldman Sachs 1. Be a team player, not a solo star: “Goldman Sachs doesn’t hire super stars who cannot work in teams. It is just not our culture! We look for people who are very good at their job but are able...

India’s department of posts (DoP) is set to spend up to $1 billion on its IT-led business revamp over the next five years. DoP has already short-listed Accenture, Ernst &Young , KPMG, McKinsey and PwC as potential consultants for the project, DOP will be announcing one of the above mentioned consulting biggies as the partner for selecting a tech vendor and also...

Consulting biggies, BCG, Bain and Mckinsey are back in the limelight. Engineering and construction giant Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has already implemented two five-year plans to reposition the company, which was heavily into engineering, procurement and construction segments, with a large exposure to commodity businesses such as cement and ready-mix concrete, to a more...

Various Media sources have reported that India”s second largest telecom operator by overall subscriber base, state-owned BSNL, which has seen massive erosion in net profits and is surviving only on interests from its cash reserves, is putting up a four-pronged revival plan based on the recommendations of Boston Consulting Group (BCG). According to Financial Express,...

During our B-school days, we had a chapter in Organization Behavior named ‘Power and Politics’. At that time we used to laugh at the concept but having spent substantial period in the corporate world, I will advice people to take it very seriously because ultimately that will be the most important chapter. Typical to any setup where group of individuals flock together...

Following is an open forum discussion picked from our Group. Mayank Gupta asked : What all skills do I need to build to get through Consulting/Strategy industry. I am an MBA Marketing and B.Tech (Mechanical and Automation Engineering) fresher with no prior experience. In these times of recession, every where I read they have been telling to build up your skill sets....

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...

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...