Besides Parikh, Singh sent letters of appreciation to V L Chopra, B Mungekar and Anwarul Hoda indicating that they may not find a place in the reconstituted body.
Names like Ambanis and Mittals making to global rich lists every now and then notwithstanding, India accounts for just about one per cent of the worldwide wealth market of over $100 trillion.
Indian and Chinese households are going to spend $10 trillion per year by 2020, say Michael Silverstein and Abheek Singhi.
In a recent report published by the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Boston Consulting Group, has estimated India would face 'talent gap'-- the lack of right skills for the job required -- of more than 5 million by 2012, as existing educational institutions do not impart employable skills. The report titled, 'India's demographic dilemma' brings out the fact the $1.1-trillion economy will have a shortfall of 750,000 skilled workers over the next five years.
Getting to the magic growth, however, will require massive increase in investment in infrastructure, in labour force skills and manufacturing capacity.
Besides undertaking the routine work, Ahluwalia entrusted the task of revamping the Commission to new member Arun Maira, formerly with the Boston Consultancy Group. "We cannot work is silos. We need better lateral inputs," Ahluwalia had said at a recent internal meeting of the commission.
In the G20 countries, the Internet economy will grow at more than 10 per cent annually for the next five years.
Indian Internet economy represents 4.1 per cent of the gross domestic product.
Although only about one in 20 of the world's first two billion mobile subscribers live in India, as many as one in every four of the next billion subscribers will be an Indian, a report by the Boston Consulting Group said.
Does the 21st century indeed belong to the Asian nations?
Consumer spending, which had been growing at 10 per cent year-on-year, will now decrease. Over 34 per cent of the respondents said they would cut spends, while 16 per cent said would spend more in the coming year. However, compared to other countries where the survey was conducted like Brazil, China, Mexico, Russia, Japan, Canada, United States and Europe , Indian consumers are more confident and optimistic.
Companies are cutting back on recruitment and training in their bid to cut costs and cope with the current economic slowdown.
Electronic book readers and tablet PCs, known to be niche products for technology geeks, are set to become mass-market devices in this decade, a survey by the Boston Consulting Group has said.
The number of millionaire households in India jumped nearly 21 per cent.
In Globality*, authors Harold L Sirkin, James W Hemerling and Arindam K Bhattacharya from Boston Consulting Group, show how, over the past two decades, a range of corporations from the developing world have begun to disrupt traditional paradigm of development and tilted the balance of competition in their favour with their predilection for 'rapid-fire innovation'.
India is likely to count among the top three life insurance and 15 general insurance markets in the world by 2020. However, private insurance companies are to be find a way to operate profitably.
The Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, invites industry delegates and management students to attend its annual IT management seminar, AIMS 2006.\n
According to the research, consumers are willing to spend small monthly sums to receive news on their personal computers and mobile devices.
Notwithstanding their increasing economic power, women are made to feel underserved and ignored by companies they are associated with, said a global study by the Boston Consulting Group.
Reliance Industries has been named as the world's fifth biggest 'sustainable value creator' globally in terms of investor returns over a decade.
As many as 20 Indian companies have been identified, in a list of 100 firms from emerging markets in a report of 'BCG Global Challengers 2011', as businesses that can challenge existing Fortune 500 firms over the next five years.
Indian companies are likely to increase investment in innovation in the coming year.
In a study titled Internet's New Billion, the Boston Consulting Group said Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia will have more than 1.2 billion Internet users by 2015 -- well over three times the number of Internet users in Japan and the US combined. In 2009, the BRICI countries had some 610 million Internet users.
In a study titled Internet's New Billion, the Boston Consulting Group said Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia will have more than 1.2 billion Internet users by 2015 -- well over three times the number of Internet users in Japan and the US combined. In 2009, the BRICI countries had some 610 million Internet users.
These stores will find it difficult to survive the pressures of the slowdown because the margins in their category of business are the lowest among all retail formats, said Anand Raghuraman, partner & director, The Boston Consulting Group.
The firms record robust 10-15% growth till September. However, despite the enhanced outlays for A&B, companies are looking at adopting cost -cutting measures.
Global wealth rose by $9 trillion to a record high of $121.8 trillion.
The BCG project, which is supported by the United Nations' World Food Programme, the government of India and the government of Orissa, involves scanning finger prints and the iris for preparing biometric cards for a population of around 1 million. Srijan Pal Singh, an IIM-A student, who is part of the project, says the biometric cards will be filtered through a super computer to avoid duplications.
Having dominated the summer placement scene at IIMs, companies like McKinsey, Boston Consultancy Group and UBS showed up for the first time for placements at IIT Bombay.
The BCG analysis shows Lupin gave an annualised average TSR of 29.9 per cent, ahead of the 18.4 per cent of Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical, the world's largest generics maker. Teva is next on the list. Another Indian generic maker, Glenmark, occupies third position, with an 18 per cent TSR to its investors.
The management of human resources has a strong link with the financial performance of a multinational company. Indian multinationals are showing how to foster it.
Global wealth fell from $104.7 trillion in 2007 to $92.4 trillion in 2008.
China has the third largest number of dollar millionaires in the world, after the United States and Japan, with the number touching 6.70 lakh (670,000) in 2009, an increase of 60 per cent compared to the previous year.
The resurgence in confidence in Indian manufacturing was borne out by many examples of Indian companies going global.
Global wealth staged a remarkable comeback in 2009, increasing by 11.5 percent to $111.5 trillion, just short of the year-end peak set in 2007.
The value of global mergers and acquisition deals is likely to drop by nearly 50 per cent this year, even as the financial crisis throws good opportunities for takeovers, a study says.
The list is based on what the employees of these companies experienced over the past twelve months.
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