Can airlines really be profitable if ALL THE AIRLINES: – BUY aircrafts from the same manufacturers – Land at the same airports (and pay the same charges) – Use the same airport infra – recruit from the same pool – have a union that will decide the salaries and the bonus – fly the same […]

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Not very long back I was addressing a group of school teachers – in a big branded school. The school owners were worried about the government allowing foreign schools to come and operate in India – and naturally they were scared. When it came to my turn I asked the teachers: How many of you […]

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It is generally believed that all the MBAs that you recruit come with great communication skills – but may lack in depth knowledge. Experience has taught me one thing. You cannot draw conclusions based on one or two students or colleagues. To draw a conclusion, you need a huge, huge database across genders, medium of […]

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  Akshaya Patra Foundation completed 11 years The Akshaya Patra Foundation completed 11 years of serving mid-day meals to children in government schools, as an implementing partner of the central and state government. 11th November is always a special day for Akshaya Patra, for it was on this day 11 years ago, that the Foundation […]

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  It is always easy to predict – especially if you have nothing at stake! The world is today very worried about the Euro problem – because it is much bigger than the US problem. In fact the situation is so bad, that US has even decided to teach Europe about coping with the crisis…LOL. […]

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Financial Planning for a well qualified, salaried individual is fairly simple. If he does not jump around too much – has one/ two kids, buys a house, car, pays for an occasional holiday for his parents….then just do a couple of SIPs, take a term insurance, and well life is done. However, if you have […]

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‘Subra you did a post on do not trust an employee…can we trust a big branded financial company?’ asked a reader. Of course you can trust a big financial company as long as you can remember that: MF Global misplaced US $ 633 Million (or was it Billion or Trillion – when it comes to […]

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