Bhavya Chowdhury YK Hamied is the Managing Chairman of Cipla, a company that has made its name in the low cost AIDS treatment for poor countries. During his travel in South Africa, Hamied came across the Lung Institute at the University of Cape Town, an institute doing stellar work in the field of pulmonary health for Africa. … Read more
Read ‘The Story of My Life – My Experiments with Truth’ by MK Gandhi. When you read the autobiography of a person who is exactly 100 years your senior, it makes for interesting comparison. Gandhi was born in 1869, yours truly in 1969. As I type this out, Gandhi was starting on his experiments in … Read more
We cycled to Alandi and stopped on the way back at Vishrantwadi to catch up with Sachin Kher, who had cycled from Baner to have breakfast. (First round for him, second round for us.) As we were chatting up at Vishrantwadi, a guy in a yellow shirt stepped down from a PMPML bus. We recognised … Read more
My friend Amit Patil introduced me to the Mumbai based Vijay Kanuru. Vijay has done his PhD at Cambridge, in battery related nano technology. He followed it up with a postDoc at Cornell. Vijay is a rare breed – in the sense after this over exposure to academics, he jumped into the rough and tough … Read more
Smita is a good friend who is only 55 but has the fitness of a hyperactive 5 year old. Earlier was operations head at Abs, one of the largest chain of gyms in Pune. ICC on SB Road and Magarpatta are the biggest centers for Abs. Annual individual collections are upwards of 3 cr from … Read more
Most of us when asked to choose a role model in history would choose Shivaji Maharaj. If all of us become Shivajis, then who is going to be the Maval? Doctors need to remember that they are part of a team. And they need to ask for help in managing patients better. For example: Get … Read more
Sunetra Roday was the chief guest at the Republic Day function in Jan 20. Sunetra ji’s main talk was on eating healthy and eating safe. In her story she mentioned Chintu, Pintu and Mintu. Chintu brings poli bhaji in his dabba. Pintu brings Varan Bhat, but Mintu brings Maggi noodles, wafers, chocolate, cream rolls. Mintu … Read more
Sujit and Amit co-founders were quite happy that their company, IM had been selected for a Microsoft Accelerator program. What added to their happiness was an angel investment by a German friend of 100,000 USD. But with the investment came pressure of delivering revenue growth. They called in an external consultant to answer some questions … Read more
One night, 18-year-old Ritesh Agarwal was locked out of his apartment in Delhi. It was an unfortunate minor incident that was to change his life. Forced to check into a hotel he found himself in a situation he had already experienced several times while travelling in India. “The receptionist was sleeping,” he says. “Sockets did … Read more
Chetan Pal is an IIT Roorkee and IIM C alumnus, who has been taking an entrepreneurship case study every year. He was with us last week. Fortunately no one from the Bulls Eye team was available at the center – and Chetan ended up doing some kaizens which are worth sharing with you. He told … Read more
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