Muhammad Yunus’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech The concept of social business Nobel Lecture Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2006. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Grameen Bank and I are deeply honoured to receive this most prestigious of awards. We are thrilled and overwhelmed by…
Month: September 2025
Work life balance
Work/Life balance Enough fish to feed the family An investment banker was on the pier of a small coastal village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. His boat was full of beautiful yellow tuna. The banker complimented the fisherman on his catch, asking how long it took to catch. The fisherman…
While we wait for Godot!
While we wait for Godot! Roopen Roy (Views are personal) An Indian CEO once told me, “You will never find statues of committees in parks. All great deeds and misdeeds are done by heroes and fallen angels.” Are we prone to exaggerating the role of individuals in shaping history? Samuel Beckett wrote…
Where there is a will
A CHINESE proverb says, “One picture is worth a thousand words.” The latest picture of Bo Xilai —the disgraced angel — said it all. No narrative was necessary. The photograph hit the wires. The media transmitted it all over the world. Handcuffed, shamed and flanked by two even taller policemen told us the story: how…
Well performing PSU an oxymoron?
Well-performing PSU-an oxymoron? Well-performing PSU –is it an oxymoron? Roopen Roy (The author is the Managing Director of Deloitte & Touche Consulting (P) Ltd. The views expressed in this article are his own) In India, we call them PSUs. In China, they are called State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). In Singapore they are Government-Linked Companies (GLCs)….
Under promise over deliver
Under-promise Over-Deliver Public Sector Reforms: Under-promise, over-deliver Our Finance Minister was widely criticized for squandering an opportunity to paint a bold reform agenda in this year’s Budget speech. But let us be realists. This is an inopportune time to contend that aggressive PSU reforms and privatization constitute the panacea to all our economic…
Tone at the top
Tone at the top Written to commemorate /February 16 2007 Every time the story of an audacious fraud makes its way to the media –the law –makers think of new legislation, regulators scramble to toughen rules and Boards evaluate the state of their governance. Enron, Worldcom, Tyco and a series of corporate…
Toh Kya
Episode 1: Phone ki Baat Toh Kya or so What 8 PM, 25 January, 2017 a phone rings @7 RCR The phone at the other end says,” Hello, kem cho Narendrabhai, 26th January ka bahut, bahut badhai.”… ” Thank you Donald, congratulations again. Ab ki baar Trump sarkar.” “But Narendrabhai, although the elections are over…
Time to invert the pyramid
Time to invert the pyramid I have started writing a column in the op-ed section of Financial Chronicle .For my first article-see http://www.mydigitalfc.com/my-mind/time-invert-pyramid Time to invert the pyramid By Roopen Roy Jul 27 2008 Until Vasco Da Gama discovered the sea route to India in the late 15th century, China and India contributed…
Time:a new source of competitive advantage
Time : a new source of competitive advantage? Roopen Roy (Opinions are personal) Modern India seems more obsessed with eternity than with the immediate. That time is a precious resource is accepted more in theory than in practice. With a burgeoning middle-class, time is becoming scarcer than financial resources. In a trade-off, cash-rich but time-poor…