Economic Times Reports… Global information and media company, Nielsen, on Wednesday announced the launch of a specialist Business Consulting Services group in India. The Nielsen Business Consulting Services will combine qualitative, high-value business consulting with fact-based analytic-driven recommendations to help clients identify and optimise existing and new...

The Financial Times has it’s 2009 listing of top global B-Schools and there is lots of talk about how the Great Recession has tarnished all B-Schools and their major product, the Masters of Business Administration (so many people are downloading it right now that i can’t link to it—wow). The FT argues that many of the top players in the economic debacle came out...

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...

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...

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...

Bing it? Or Google it? Microsoft’s revamped search engine claims to perform a lot of magic tricks. Bing is being marketed as a  ‘decision engine’ , which will offer more insights to users for helping them take decisions, and not necessarily throw the most popular and relevant items. If a user runs a search for Indian Airlines, Bing will provide the airline’s...

 An interesting article on Business Intelligence - Middle East INSEAD Professor Hal Gregersen, an expert in leadership and co-author of ‘It Starts With One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations’ made an extended visit to the UAE last week to work with the INSEAD Abu Dhabi campus in its executive education programme and in an advisory capacity to the UAE...

Technorati Profile When Rajat Gupta first articulated the idea of a world-class management institute, that is now the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad, a year had passed since he had taken the reins of McKinsey & Company worldwide. Back then, in late-1995, the concept driving ISB was a radical thought in India’s higher-education milieu. Gupta was clear...