February 10, 2012 
BS People: Anish Sarkar ‘Benaami’ author heads Capgemini
A techie, an avid nature lover and an author, Anish Sarkar has been picked to head the India business of one of the world’s leading consulting firms, Capgemini. Sarkar, in his new role, has the responsibility of driving the consulting business for the domestic India market. The France-based company had so far focused on the tech-side of the business, enhancing their offshore capability. Now, they are renewing ...
IIM – C Alumni to Teach Students
he initiative was taken by Shekhar Chaudhuri, director of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C), who realised in 2003 that he was facing some critical gaps in his marketing department. He was not able to fill these up in-house and wanted some support. He met members of the IIM-C Alumni Association's Chennai Chapter ...
Tech TRIO
Three young techies, who chose to start an off beat pioneering IT venture in Kerala find that they have competition only from the U.S. and Europe! What's the latest in a techie's life? All those new gadgets that have ‘i' as a prefix perhaps, and a ticket to Silicon Valley, where life spells greenbacks. But the news is that three guys, who have been there, done that, ...
Sunay Bhasin is Pizza Hut India marketing head
NEW DELHI, AUG 10: Casual dining brand Pizza Hut has appointed Mr Sunay Bhasin as its new marketing head for the Indian subcontinent. The company said the appointment will strengthen the position of Pizza Hut as a strong affordable casual dining brand in the country. In his new role, Mr Bhasin will be responsible for all marketing, branding and brand related public relations activities for Pizza ...
Ayurveda: Nothing Divine, Just Science
For Bail Bharath, life had never been better. At 47, he ran his own environmental engineering company and drove a Hyundai Elantra. But his perfect world came crashing down one Monday morning when his back began to hurt. At the hospital, the doctors recommended surgery and physiotherapy. But there was no guarantee that his back would heal completely even after the surgery. A disheartened Bharath even traded his ...
Nokia, MD, D. Shivkumar talks about common mistakes CEOs make
Ten of the big yet common mistakes that organisation heads make while running the show. At a recent breakfast roundtable in Chennai organised by the Delhi-based International Market Assessment (IMA), D. Shivakumar, Managing Director, Nokia India, addressed the CEOs of a host of medium-sized companies on leadership issues and the mistakes that CEOs often make in dealing with the organisation team that reports directly to ...
MBA, myth and ‘Meluha’, a phenomenon called Amish
Priyanshi Durbha, TNN Jul 28, 2011, 06.08am IST He left the city as an IIM graduate, dreaming of a high-flying career in finance. Fourteen years later, when Amish Tripathi returned to Kolkata on Wednesday, letters, not numbers, had become his muse. The author of the bestselling 'The Immortals Of Meluha', the first book in the Shiva trilogy, was in town to inaugurate the Crossword bookstore at City ...
Jayaram, an alumnus of IIMC becomes Joint Managing Director of Kotak Mahindra Bank
Private sector lender, Kotak Mahindra Bank appointed C. Jayaram and Dipak Gupta as joint managing directors, according to a press release issue by the lender. They were previously working as executive directors of the bank. Both professionals have been serving the bank for more than 18 years in different verticals. Currently, Jayaram looks after wealth management and international subsidiaries while Gupta takes care of commercial and retail banking.
Panel Discussion on corruption by IIM C Delhi Alum Chapter
Until Corporate India cleans up its act, coruruption-free India would remain a fantasy. This was the consensus at a panel discussion on why Corporate India is lagging behind civil society in the debate on corruption. The debate organized by IIM-Calcutta Alumni Association began on Saturday with an exhortation from Anu Aga, member of National Advisory Council and former chairman of Thermax, that business chambers should acknowledge that companies indulged ...
IIM-C students to assist in work in tsunami-hit areas of Japan
IIM-C students to assist in work in tsunami-hit areas of Japan Shiv Sahay Singh Students from Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta will assist in reconstruction work in the tsunami-affected areas of Japan where the natural disaster early this year claimed many lives besides leaving a trail of destruction. Thirty-four students of the Visionary Leadership in Manufacturing Programme, a joint initiative of IIM-Calcutta, IIT-Madras and IIT-Kanpur, receiving cooperation from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), will ...
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