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Roopen Roy (Views are personal) Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani girl of Pushtun ethnicity. She is barely 15 years old. She is the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize in history. I hope she has the distinction of being the youngest recipient of the Prize as well. Malala authored a blog under a nom…
Crowdsourcing is a game changer (views expressed are personal) Roopen Roy The marvels of technology, the shrinking of distances and virtual platforms of collaboration have unleashed the power of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a term that was coined back in 2006 by writer Jeff Howe for a Wired magazine article. Although the concept was far…
Roopen Roy (Views are personal) There are several theories on how companies are built to last. But remaining in business for a long time is a tough act. If you look at the Dow Jones index of 30 companies, only 4 continue from the 1960s. The churn in Fortune 500 has been equally…
Bloomberg DARK HORSE: By the end of 2003, Lenovo had spent a total of 200 million RMB on rebranding. It hired William Amelio as its CEO from Dell and set up its R&D centre in Raleigh, North Carolina. The rest as they say is history Towards the end of 2001, a US headquartered personal computer…
Roopen Roy (Roopen Roy is the Managing Director of Deloitte Consulting, India. The views are personal.) Several eminent economists and CEOs will be dissecting and analysing the Union Budget for 2010-11. To avoid overlaps and duplications, I intend to examine the Finance Minister’s Budget through the prism of a 5-metric Balanced Score Card. I…
Social Enterprises to mitigate poverty : the BRAC model Roopen Roy (Roopen Roy is the Managing Director of Deloitte Consulting, India. Views expressed are personal) In the early 1990s, Dr. Josef Stadlbauer of Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW) , the German Development Bank and I went to meet the founder of BRAC Fazle…
Roopen Roy (The author is the Founder and CEO of Sumantrana, a strategy advisory firm) Principles and fundamental beliefs should be more important than expediency, always. Ajmal Kasab was a Pakistani terrorist. In full view of thousands of TV viewers he carried out the 26th September 2008 carnage in Mumbai. In December 2008, the…
Should India launch a Sovereign Wealth Fund? India has foreign currency reserves topping $254 billion. Most of it is invested in “safe and liquid” US Treasury Bills. The returns on these investments are very small because the risks are low. All other BRIC countries are experimenting with different investment strategies. Many have set up…
(This Ghazal has a strong link with Calcutta in a strange way. The poet Fayyaz Hashmi was born in Calcutta in 1920. He lived in Hayat Khan Lane until the tumultous days of partition in 1947 when the family left for Lahore in Pakistan. The ghazal was immortalized by the Queen of Ghazals Farida…
My five favourite eating places are Pan Asian at the ITC Sonar , Kewpie’s Kitchen, Peter Cat, Mainland China and ,last but not the least, the Dining Room at the Bengal Club. Pan Asian is an excellent restaurant that offers a wide variety of cuisines:Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Mongolian and one or two Korean dishes.They have…