Ajit Balakrishnan, founder and CEO, Rediff.com, is the author of The Wave Rider, A Chronicle of the Information Age. You can e-mail the author at ajitb@rediffmail.com
Education is much more than just learning about things, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
It is not certain whether management theories have a role in modern society. In fact, some of them need to be reconstructed.
Debate about the relative merits of auctions versus administrative allocation that Cornwallis started in 1784 is still going on.
Filtering of websites has now been introduced as a discussable topic. The current battle is about who will control the most visible and glamorous layer, the content layer.
There are few periods in human history that have seen worldwide expressions of middle-class angst like the current one has.
Government representatives say they are acting in the interest of National Security, and the US-based social media companies say they are fighting for Freedom of Expression.
What may be at stake here is a system that currently serves as our economy's shock absorber: farming families, unable to support themselves, take their young sons out of school and send them to earn a living in the retail trade in cities.
Financialised masses not only provide feedstock inputs but are also voters whose political support for funded savings cannot be taken for granted, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
If you do not know much about Kasimbazar, I would not hold it against you; after all it has a population of only 10,000 and lies in one of the most neglected corners of the state of West Bengal.
Mr Jobs's place in management history is assured for being the model CEO who spent his waking hours obsessing about making their products 'insanely great', says Ajit Balakrishnan.
India was not the only country that embraced the 'import-substituting industrialisation' fad.
Mr Jobs' resignation has prompted various eulogies, with many aptly calling him America's greatest industrialist ranked right up there with the likes of Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie. But many also made references to his "micro-managing".
Mr Jobs' resignation has prompted various eulogies, with many aptly calling him America's greatest industrialist ranked right up there with the likes of Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie. But many also made references to his "micro-managing".
Judging the research output of an IIM is an art form.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's visionary plan to build India's Information Super Highway has been very carefully thought-out and needs all the support we can give it, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan writes about why learning the real values of human life is real education.
Just as the Sumerians had to make the transition from hunting to farming, bankers are learning to deal with derivatives while curbing their dangers.
Greenspan never saw how derivatives would make the housing crisis a global one.
For the cult following that "excellence" enjoys among policymakers we have to thank Tom Peters and Bob Waterman and their 1982 book In Search of Excellence. They were consultants at McKinsey when they wrote this book, which went on to sell 3 million copies in the first four years of its existence and is believed to be the most widely-held book in libraries in the United States.
The real message of the Rs 1 lakh car is that in one stroke, it is showing the way to Indian managements that a new era awaits -- one where you compete on superior management capability leaving behind decades of attempting to compete on cheaper labour or cheaper natural resources.
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