Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 713 The initial reaction of most people to the Emergency was admittedly very positive. Everyone was tired of the strikes and bandhs organized by people like George Fernandes. They disrupted normal life for most working people and served very little purpose in making things better for most people. lt only benefited trade … Read more
Number of words: 573 Most European multinationals were traditionally operated as multi-domestic companies with the people at the head office exercising their hold mainly through financial controls and authorities. In earlier years, the chairmen of both HLL and Unilever used to say that the control from the centre on the subsidiary was mainly in two areas, … Read more
Number of words: 540 That was the period when I began to develop an aversion to young men called “Product Managers”. They usually came with a degree in English or economics, and the more recent ones had done engineering but had abandoned the technical career to do an MBA at one of the Indian Institutes of … Read more
Number of word: 1,015 I was a man in a hurry because I knew that the company was in a financial crisis. We had huge piles of imported raw materials and an equally large pile of unsold stock, all of which was hypothecated against loans from banks. There was a very small cash balance and … Read more
Number of word: 148 It was just such an idea, one that came from observing the clerks that established my reputation as a consultant. I noted that every three months a clerk had to write the address of each landlord along with the unchanged description of property and infrequently changed tax rates. I thought, it … Read more
Number of word: 120 As Dewan of Travancore he undertook a tough campaign against the State Congress leaders, who were arrested. The principal target of the government was the Christian community which used its economic resources to support the Congress Party. Christians had been almost totally excluded from government jobs by generations of Travancore Maharajas who … Read more
Number of word: 182 There is a chivalrous tradition behind the Aranmula boat race. Centuries earlier, the priest of the temple had to come by boat from his village which was several miles upstream to perform the puja during the annual festival of that temple. He had custody of the ornaments of the deity of … Read more
Number of words: 160 A number of years ago we worked on a rent-a-solvent for a chemical company. A solvent is a chemical that is used to remove grease, for example, from machine parts. Companies ordinarily buy the cheapest degreasing solvent available, even if it comes from halfway around the globe. After its use, the … Read more
Number of words: 41 Henry Ford practiced an early from of up-cycling. When he had Model A trucks shipped in crates that became the vehicle’s floorboards when it reached its destination. Excerpted from Page 110 of ‘Cradle to Cradle’ by Michal Braungart and William McDonough
Harish Mehta is a COEP alumnus, Electrical 1972 batch. He went to the US to do his MS in Control Systems. His room partner, a Sardarji who had done his BS from the US, was doing his MS in Computer Science. He brainwashed Harish into dropping out of Control Systems and getting into Computer Science. … Read more
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