When I teach my seminars on “Business with India” I am often asked how women should prepare for a work trip to India and how they should behave. Conflicting advice from well meaning Indian Americans makes matters worse for many first time travelers. I addressed this subject in my book “Doing Business in 21st Century [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by Gunjan
In 2009 “India maintained robust growth (6.7%) without Beijing’s hefty stimulus of $585 billion in part because it is less exposed to the international economy. China’s exports represented 35% of GDP compared with only 24% for India in 2008. Thus India was afforded more protection from the worst effects of the financial crisis in the [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by Gunjan
Before he got a mobile phone seven years ago, Vijay Navle, a small Mumbai fish trader, spent much of his time and scant income travelling on buses and trains, according to the Financial Times. Every day, he would make the five-hour round trip to visit fishermen living on the Arabian Sea on the north of [...]
Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Gunjan
Top executives of companies are generally a sanguine bunch. But the economic crisis of 2008 shook their confident about future prospects and the recovery in confidence has not been uniform. According the 2010 Price Waterhouse Survey of 1,198 CEOs, 81 per cent of CEOs worldwide are confident of their prospects (compared to 61 pecent a [...]
Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Gunjan
While India new airports at Bangalore (BLR) and Hyderabad (HYD) are quite modern and efficient, there are are still air traffic challenges in the skies and are exacerbated severely by the winter fog in Delhi and other parts of northern India. Its two busiest airports, the Indira Gandhi Airport in Delhi (DEL) and the Chatrapati [...]
Posted on January 24th, 2010 by Gunjan
