Archive | September, 2011
Editorial (Sept’11)
“The future’s in the air; I can feel it everywhere; Blowing with the wind of change”- The Scorpions
The winds of change have been swirling through the world. Be it the Jasmine Revolution spread across the Arab world, the explosive nature of wiki-leaks breaking down the walls of information or even the change of guard at [...]
ET Young Leaders Winner 2011 – View from the top
1. September 2011
Vikash Priyadarshi (Batch 2010) has done the MBA program proud with his achievement of being in the elite 22 of the Economic Times Young Leaders – 2011. Here is a blow-by-blow account from the man himself as he tastes well deserved success after a gruelling fight.
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Amidst the ethos and pathos of the daily chores of [...]
A TRIBUTE TO OUR “MAMA” – SREEJIT GOPALAKRISHNAN (1973-2011)
1. September 2011
As a tribute to the Late Sreejit Gopalakrishnan (Batch 2003), we are bringing together a collection of memories, anecdotes, personal experiences shared with Sreejit in this article. We hope that through everyone’s contributions, we can keep Sreejit Sir alive in all our memories. The comments to this article would also be incorporated into the article [...]
Continue reading...Role of Markets and Governments in managing the growth in Emerging/Developing Economies
1. September 2011
The final part in this 3 part series covers the counter balancing forces of government policy needed to stabilize and drive emerging economies into a progressive future.
Continue reading...Hedging and spread trading models for crude oil and gold futures
1. September 2011
Project Objective
The objective of the project is to study the efficiency of Bullion Futures for Hedging risks in Currency, Energy Markets and efficiency of Price Discovery process for Agricultural Commodities at NCDEX.
The aim of this study was to develop quantitative models to excite traders to come to NCDEX and trade. If its possible to show [...]
Summer Internship – Strategic Process Improvement Initiative in Internal Operations
1. September 2011
Scope of Project
Problem Statement
The Provider Services Business Unit currently operates with two entities based on the customer profile: physician services and hospital services. These units have many overlapping processes, offerings and can offer greater economies of scale if integrated together. The possible synergy from such integration is the core objective of this project. The impact [...]
US Debt Crisis- Is Uncle Sam Going Broke??
1. September 2011
US Debt Crisis is one of the major news flashing in media and clogging our minds for quite some time now. There were many issues which led to it and there are various possible repercussions to it: the downgrade by Standard & Poors being one of them. This piece is an attempt to chart out [...]
Continue reading...Jan Lokpal – An idealistic yellow brick road?
1. September 2011
Corruption in our country has reached a startling magnitude. The 2G Scam has become infamous to the extent of embarrassment for us. This is due to some policies that have created huge motivations for its increase, together with the lack of an effective institution that can investigate the corrupt. Over the years, our country has [...]
Continue reading...Dhak-Dhak gone – time for a new Hero
1. September 2011
The ‘Dhak Dhak’ image of Hero Honda has touched the hearts of old and young alike across the nation. Also vivid is their association with sports like Cricket, Hockey (Phir Dil do Hockey Ko) and Delhi Commonwealth Games. It has also been the sponsor of TV shows like Roadies and Sa-re-ga-ma-pa.
The two automobile giants India’s [...]
Tablet Wars : Competition Analysis and Future outlook
1. September 2011
The recent gizmo that has come out with a bang for the tech savvy consumers (mostly internet or music lovers) is the Tablet pc. It is a very light weight (avg. wt 604gms), portable, ultra-mobile and very convenient to use hand-held pc and is equipped with essentials like wireless internet adapter and a local area [...]
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