Author: Arun

The Mint has an interview with Air Deccan’s Founder & CEO, Captain G.R. Gopinath, on his company’s plans to raise a large amount of Private Equity funding at a time…

Habil Khorakiwala, Chairman, Wockhardt Group has an article in the Economic Times on how Indian pharmaceuticals are leading the way in creating global operations via the inorganic route. The transition…

Knowledge@Wharton has an interesting article on whether buyout firms hiring operating partners “with experience running plants and facilities, and rolodexes full of industry contacts” will boost their higher returns. A…

V.P.Harris, Managing Director of Chennai-based speciality retailer Witco, sent me a note with some interesting takeaways and reactions to the recent presentation made by retail guru Paco Underhill in Bangalore.…

Basab Pradhan, former head of sales at Infosys, has his own take on the recent Forrestor Research report on how captive centers of MNCs are underperforming their third-party outsourcing peers.…

Alok Mittal of Canaan Partners and Avnish Bajaj of Matrix Partners India have triggered off an interesting discussion at VentureWoods on Social Networking start-ups in the Indian context. Extract from…

Business Standard has an interview with Gaurav Dalmia, Chairman of Landmark Land Holdings, on the correction in various pockets of the Indian Real Estate market. Instead of maximising returns from…

Economic Times article on how more and more middle east based banks and financial institutions are investing in India. Corporate India will have a new set of deep-pocket investors eyeing…

Bill Burnham has a post on how Indian IT outsourcing companies are promoting open source software among their enterprise customers and, in the process, also taking away some service revenues…

The second edition of Proto.in, an event that showcases technology start-ups along the lines of the well-known DEMO conference in the US, is to be held at IIT-Madras on July…