Managing cost increases Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases Published: Author: June 16, 2008 John Quelch Executive Summary: Consumers get hit with the price-increase hammer every time they drive past a gas station. Harvard Business School professor John Quelch offers tips on how marketers can cope with inflation and consumer sticker shock. Key concepts…
Month: September 2025
Managing Talent in Troubled Times
A veteran HR director dies. Yama tells him to choose between heaven and hell. The HR director proceeds to do a due diligence of both before deciding. Yama first takes him up to heaven (Svarga). Everything is perfect and pristine there. Most inmates are speaking softly about philosophy, risk management, accounting policies and mathematical models….
Looking east
Looking East We intuitively “look West” for best practices. These days, international business schools are “looking East”. They are trying to learn from success stories at the unlikeliest of places. This article intends to look at two such successes. Both fly in the face of conventional management wisdom. The first is the Nutan Mumbai…
Lessons in leadership
Lessons in Leadership Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership Wednesday, Jul. 09, 2008 By RICHARD STENGEL Enlarge Photo Though Mandela has retreated from the public stage, the 90-year-old still speaks out, as he did in condemning Zimbabwe’s Mugabe. Hans Gedda / Sygma / Corbis Nelson Mandela has always felt most at ease around children,…
Lehman Bros: Paying for Repocrisy
Lehman: paying for ‘repocrisy’ By Roopen Roy Mar 16 2010 On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. By then, most of its clients were abandoning the debt-laden, sinking ship. There were huge losses in its stock and devaluation of its assets by credit rating agencies. It drew the curtains on a…
Learning from Desis
When it comes to best practices we Look West across the oceans, we do not look at Grameen Bank across the river or the dabbawalas in Mumbai. Time to Look East brother!!!! Management trends The cult of the dabbawala Jul 10th 2008 From The Economist print edition Business-school gurus take lessons from an unexpected source AS THE…
judostrategy
Judo Strategy How smaller companies use agility,skills and movement to defeat bulky,slow and inefficient companies Dr David Yoffie taught us at the AMP 172 at Harvard Business School. I was fascinated by the concept of using the principles of Judo in business competition.He said he had developed the idea from Judo economics which is described…
Joining Make in India and Acting East
By Roopen Roy Jul 21 2015 As we aspire to harvest demographic returns from our young population, we should be mindful of the flipside. High rates of unemployment will create social disquiet and threaten our growth story. If these pockets of lack of economic opportunity, are clustered in specific regions, we are asking for social unrest. We…
IT scenario in kolkata
IT Scenario in Kolkata Article in The Hindu Kolkata — the happening city on IT front A view of the IT Hub at Salt Lake, Sector-V in Kolkata. — Ambar Singh Roy “When anybody asks me, I always mention Kolkata as a credible destination,” said Mr Harris Miller, President of the IT Association of America. “The…
It’s time
It’s time The presidential election It’s time Oct 30th 2008 From The Economist print edition America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world IT IS impossible to forecast how important any presidency will be. Back in 2000 America stood tall as the undisputed superpower, at peace with…