'IIM Ahmedabad has seen one of the best placement seasons ever and this change can be attributed to the markets opening up after the pandemic.'
'The reality is no one, including some of the names that have shown up in the last few weeks, have any unilateral decision-making power in this,' Facebook India MD Ajit Mohan tells Peerzada Abrar.
'The digital economy will generate 60 to 65 million jobs by 2025, 20 million more than the 40 to 45 million existing jobs that are in danger of disappearing or getting automated,' points out T N Ninan.
Internet has a sweeping impact on growth, prosperity and has created 2.4 jobs for every job that it has destroyed.
The report has identified some areas that need attention from India's policymakers.
IIM Lucknow has concluded its 2020-21 final placements.
Be brave to fail, learn, and lead, advises Abhilash R, founder and CEO, Bloombloom Dreambiz (P) Ltd and B-HUB Lifespaces.
Line up tasks that require physical presence, like meetings or team sessions, for the days you will be working from the office. Tasks that can be performed in isolation should be left for home.
Mohan will be responsible for aligning of teams, overall strategy in this country and driving Facebook's investments in India
Creation of 115 million non-farm jobs over next decade critical to sustaining growth, says McKinsey
The analyst community tracking the Indian IT services industry took special note of Accenture's first quarter (Q1) performance, which showcased the rapid growth of its consulting business that outperformed its outsourcing business. Bookings indicate that the trend will continue. Consulting bookings increased 41.6 per cent year-on-year (yoy) to $9.4 billion, higher than the 17.6 per cent growth in outsourcing to $7.4 billion. The management commentary was also more bullish on the consulting business.
Showing lenience and also appreciation for his humanitarian work, Judge Jed S Rakoff of the Federal District Court in Manhattan handed a two-year prison term to Rajat Gupta, former head of McKinsey and Co and also a former director of Goldman Sachs and Proctor and Gamble for leaking insider information.
Of the 1,145 offers made this year, consulting firms made up 34 per cent, followed by banking, financial services and insurance, pharma/healthcare, IT/ITeS and FMCG/retail.
According to McKinsey numbers, IT expenditure can give a return of up to around 10 times by reworking supply chains and logistics, managing resources better and so on. If a firm reduces IT expenditures by around 15 per cent, this will add around 0.5 per cent to long-run EBIT. Retaining expenditure levels could add 1-2 per cent to EBIT in terms of better merchandising and 3-5 per cent in terms of better pricing by reducing revenue leakages.
India will contribute 36 global cities by 2025.
The $130-million world class premier Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, a brain child of Rajat Gupta, was nurtured by him and his other colleagues in McKinsey through the nineties and the last decade.
... As the world swings from 'financialisation' to 'artificial intelligence', asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The e-commerce firm recruited 18 post graduate students.
When the Delhi police served him a notice in May for a case involving tagging some political leaders' tweets as carrying manipulated media, a spirited Maheshwari said he was employed by Twitter Communications Private Limited, and not Twitter Inc, and, therefore, could not help them. The authorities were understandably not pleased.
Job cuts in Indian IT companies will be 1.75 -2 lakh per year in next 3 years, due to under- preparedness in adapting newer technologies, says Head Hunters MD
Rajat Gupta was convicted in 2012 of passing illegal tips about Goldman Sachs to Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam.
Isha and Akash, 23, were appointed to the boards of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd and Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd, the company said.
Here are India's top 10 urban centres in terms of their respective gross domestic product in 2009 based on purchasing power parity, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers study. . .
With India's gross domestic product growing at about seven per cent yearly in the past 10 years, its per capita income has grown by 9.11 per cent annually from $439 per person in 1999 to $1,050 per person in 2009.
The government is aiming for an 8-10 per cent annual economic growth.
In a report released at the VI Asia Gas Partnership Summit, Mckinsey said the current demand of 166 mmscmd -- made up of nearly 132 mmscmd supplies from domestic fields and the rest from imported LNG -- is likely to rise to at least a minimum of 230 mmscmd and a maximum of 320 mmscmd by 2015.
Enabling labour to become more globally mobile can produce higher remittances with powerful 'brain gain' dividends.
Free speech is the soul of a great university. By compromising on it, the founders have bartered away its soul, said Rajan.
Calling for 'fundamental restructuring' to put India back on its growth trajectory, McKinsey said on Wednesday that the country will run out of capital to support economic expansion.
A forthcoming study based on NCAER data shows a huge income gap that is directly attributable to education levels, says Sunil Jain.
With all the brouhaha over GST, and (often) a limited understanding of the long-term forces shaping India's logistics sector, companies seem to have omitted factoring in some underlying trends that could shape supply chain excellence, says Neelesh Mundra.
Rajat Gupta was freed from Federal Medical Centre Devens, a federal correctional facility in Ayer, Massachusetts, on January 5.
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.
Whether one likes it or not, services constitute the value-addition sector that the country has to build on, using its comparative advantage in infotech and related skills, suggests T N Ninan.
Increasing personal incomes, addition of healthcare facilities and deeper penetration of health insurance will see India's pharmaceutical market triple to touch $20 billion in a decade, global consulting firm McKinsey said.
Are we running a cricket match using football rules, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
It is not clear whether the drop in offers is a fallout of demonetisation.
Anandan, also an investor in multiple start-ups, is slated to join venture fund Sequoia Capital.
Economic slowdown fails to dent luxury car sales.
'A lot of people who quit felt they have been in the organisation for way too long and needed a better or challenging career role to advance in their careers.'
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