Saurabh Mukherjea
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ......