There is lies, damned lies and statistics. For American marketers, the image below from the new book "The Haves and the Have-Nots,” by World Bank economist Branko Milanovic can fall into the last of those categories. Milanovic sliced the income of national popultions into five percentile slices ("ventiles"), adjusted for purchasing...
Will Cameron score over Obama?
The British Prime Minister David Cameron is visiting India now, at least three months before the scheduled visit of U.S. President Obama. Cameron is distinctly focused on commercial ties. Especially with his recent interest in containing expenses at home, India seems to be on the forefront for business engagement. In...
Movie: Doing a Deal in India
A tall Texan stumbles as he closes a radiator business deal in India. His lovely wife scrambles to help.
Pocket Guide for Non-Indians Doing Business in India
My book on Doing Business in India was published over a year ago. Major media and the public at large have been very kind to it and it is now established as the "go-to" primer on the subject, far ahead of other books on similar themes. I've been blessed to...