Gone in $500 mn!

Yahoo! shareholders cannot take it any longer and Terry Semel is forced to quit... Can Yahoo! now chart a better future?
Disgrace is his middle name today. But ‘poor’? Certainly not! Terry Samel, the man Yahoo! Shareholders now love to hate and also blame for all things wrong with the company (be it falling market share, attrition at higher management levels or plummeting share prices) has finally gone the way out, as the Yahoo! CEO position is taken up by Jerry Yang, one of the co-founders of the company. But like we said, he is hardly poorer, as he leaves the company after having made a cool $500 million plus via stock options! Stated Yang on the announcement, “It’s been a real honour to work with Terry over the last six years, and it is an emotional time for us at Yahoo!.”

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

DEFENCE:PARAMILITARY

Oh, those?
The ones who get the short end The poorer sister of India’s armed forces, the central police organsiations like BSF, CRPF, ITBP, SSB, CISF are just as hard-pressed and neglected. While they are increasingly being deployed to contain terrorist activities, often they find themselves lacking autonomy (as enjoyed by the army). Essentially, it has been the CRPF that has been paying the price with an average of 1,000 of its personnel losing lives every year in the fight against Naxalites and terrorists. Yet, the government has not been kind enough to give them the right kind of comfort to be battle ready. In the end, fragging and suicides are adding to the already high casualties.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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Threat : China

We should do what?!? Hug China?
To consider China a friend can be no less than a bomb of a blunder
The aftermath of the Pokharan tests in 1998, when George Fernandes claimed that it wasn’t Pakistan but the threat from China that necessitated the nuclear test, created a major furore among the peaceniks and pseudo-intellectuals of this country. But the fact that most of the major powers of the world, including Russia, France and USA, let India off and eventually gave a whisper of a legitimacy through the nuclear deal (currently under negotiations) vindicates that what Fernandes claimed was not a slip of tongue. Even if we keep aside the humiliation that was showered on us by China in 1962 as a thing of the past, for the past two decades China has been consistently arming Pakistan with the most lethal nuclear and missile technology for obvious reasons. In addition to this, for years, China was unwilling to accept Sikkim as a part of India. And now, even after they have endorsed the same, their latest intransigence about Arunachal Pradesh is a mere continuation of their long term strategic goals.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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A tough Endeavour

Ford India has re-launched Endeavour in the premium SUV segment. The company is planning to reap the fast movers’ advantage in the nearly non existent lifestyle SUV segment in India with this new generation Endeavour. To be rolled out in three versions, the company plans to sell 2500 plus units of the ‘aggressively priced’ model. The automobile is an upgraded version of the old Endeavour and is priced in the range of Rs.14,72,000 and Rs.15,52,000. Ford India aims to grow at around 15-16% in the stagnant SUV segment. The company is also planning to launch the diesel variant of its mid-sized vehicle Fusion soon.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Pharma revenues set to double by 2020!

As predicted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), by 2020 global pharmaceutical market would witness a sales doubling to the tune of $1.3 trillion. Reasons like ever increasing population, obesity and preventive treatments will attribute to this doubling of sales. Interestingly Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia and Turkey would hold one-fifth of these revenues. As per the report however ‘the current pharmaceutical industry business model is both economically unsustainable and operationally incapable of acting quickly enough to produce the types of innovative treatments demanded by global markets’. PwC proposed that to tap the potential markets, the industry should definitely undergo certain elementary changes in the manner it operates.

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An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Shifting Primate

Shrinking edens drive a wedge between man and his fellow primates
Precious and enduring lessons have come my way during my time spent with our close primate cousins. Whether Louis Leakey’s (the anthropologist Who supported the work of Goodall, Fossey and Galdikas) view that women make better primate watchers than men is discriminatory or true, his premise that women are less likely to incite aggression in male primates is particularly valid. An understanding of the vastly different ways in which non-human primates relate to men and women is necessary for developing a clear conception of primate behaviour.

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An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

De-lighting naturally

Waste disposal assumes an increasingly important aspect in the battle to save the environment...
Earth Day This year was special . 1,000,000 Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFL) were given away in the USA in a special Earth day promotion, in an effort to cut down on energy consumption and securing a saving of nearly 12 million dollars per year in electricity bills. In India too, West Delhi is reported to have at least 3,00 000 users of this energy saving long life lamp. There is a nationwide campaign promoting and encouraging the cost-effective and eco-friendly solution. Tragically, once again, we are leaping off and reaching for a solution offered by technology but without understanding its full implication and potential repercussions.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Industrial waste: effluents of affluence

Posing a threat to the health of the world at large, these discarded solid or liquid substances possess carcinogenic compounds. Several chemical disasters of the likes of Union Carbide plant and IPCL’s gas cracker complex have caused severe, irreparable damage to the residents around them. Third World countries for their economic development have, at several instances, jeopardised the environment. At one such instance, Philippines signed an economic cooperation treaty with Japan even when it involved damaging its environment by making it the dumping ground for its industrial wastes.

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An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative