Insecurity - The Core of Consumerism

Fascinating article on psychology & marketing http://markmanson.net/insecurity

Pharma - A Paradigm shift that can affect millions ?

http://scroll.in/article/745344/why-south-africas-health-minister-is-so-worried-about-india-caving-in-to-big-pharma

While it is impossible to ignore the merits of an incentive driven system, certain things like this should be controlled for the common good.. Quoting Yusuf Hameid , "“All governments should ensure that there is no monopoly in essential drugs required for the healthcare needs of their country,”

Indian businesses undermining capitalism ?

"Indian capital, rather than collectively fighting for rational regulation, spends its energies extracting its own form of rent from this misregulation. Industry uses inordinate resources in keeping its exemptions intact or manipulating rules to its advantage."

Read more:

 http://forbesindia.com/article/independence-special-2013/pratap-bhanu-mehta-when-business-bats-against-itself/35875/1

Management Consulting & Ethics

Felix Salmon's article on recent insider trading controversies with McKinsey http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/03/09/mckinseys-corrupted-culture/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+felix-all+(Felix+Salmon+-+All+(Reuters+%2B+FS.com))

The Social Bubble - II

Call it a cynical view, but I echo these perspectives.. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/a-silicon-bubble-shows-signs-of-reinflating/

" For example, enthusiasm for closely held Facebook shares has run so high that private investors are trading derivatives of it."


We live in interesting times :)

Twittter vs Facebook

One of the most brilliant technology articles that I've read in recent times on business model of twitter vis-a-vis facebook..  http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/16/why-twitter-is-massively-undervalued-compared-to-facebook/

Some great discussion in comments section as well

An Unusual Election

 No, this is not about general elections..Is about the impending elections at "The Firm".

What makes this unique is the insights into the electoral dynamics consisting of arguably the most 

talented and sensible electorate in the World ...  

 Good luck to the candidates :-)

The Iphone Saga

A must -read article on how I-phone rewrote the dynamics of wireless phone industry ..Link:-http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone?currentPage=1