Fun!

I love the colorful and rich print ads in Indian media. So much more fun than the bland American ones.

Banker Compensation!

We expected to find that changes in incentive systems, especially executive incentives, would be highly correlated with making the leap from good to great. With all the attention paid to executive compensation – the shift to stock options and the huge packages that have become commonplace – surely, we thought, the amount and structure of [...]

Why Good Ideas Die In India!

Flouting rules comes easy to us, unless of course someone is there with a danda monitoring us. The higher we are in the socio-political power structure, the bigger danda we need to keep us in line – there are no exceptions from the poor day laborer to the richest person, everyone tries to get away [...]

Gas Prices

Hindi Movies : must watch list for an Indophile non-desi

Many of us know that the only thing true about India is that no single element represents the whole of India – her wonders, complexities, contradictions and the diversity. And Indian Cinema certainly can not – only Hindi movies surely can not. Still, I believe that the stories we tell and the songs we sing [...]