Saurabh Mukherjea

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09 December, 2013

A report that changed India

Starting in the mid-1990s, a few (then) small road contractors figured out how to game the public contracts system to ......

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18 November, 2013

The rise of a new elite

Rapid growth in the once-derided Hindi-speaking states of northern India is now an established fact (FY08-12 state domestic product CAGR ......

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27 August, 2013

Four popular myths regarding India

The sellside typically presents India either as a land of unlimited investment opportunities or as a country in the grip of ......

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29 July, 2013

Re-inventing the broken brokerage model

There was a time a decade or so ago when I used to believe that the retail and institutional brokerage ......

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09 July, 2013

What does the crisis in China tell us about India?

The differing responses of the Indian and Chinese economies to a common global event – the Fed’s announcement of the tapering ......

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07 June, 2013

Why do great Indian companies self-destruct?

Over 80% of ‘great’ Indian companies slide to mediocrity in a short span of time led by poor strategic decision-making fuelled ......

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27 May, 2013

Growth in the badlands

Whilst average GDP growth in India increased by 1.3x over FY09-13 compared with a decade ago, India’s less celebrated states ......

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29 April, 2013

Destructive "groupthink" versus rational analysis

60 years ago, the great social psychologist, Solomon Asch, did all of us a big favour. Through a series of ......

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05 April, 2013

The ‘greatness' conundrum

Indian companies find it very hard to generate shareholder returns – over the last 20 years, 80 per cent of ......

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25 March, 2013

Do we really lack structural reform?

For almost two decades now, whenever the Indian economy hits a rough patch, the done thing on the part of ......