August-2002 issue
Cover Story
AN ACADEMIC CAN BE GOOD CEO MATERIAL.
You snigger. A CEO from academia, who also
happens to be a woman, can take a company public.
You snigger again. An academic—who also happens
to be an immigrant female—is the CEO of a public...
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Global Management
IF YOU WANT A CAREER THAT
is satisfying and provides for
personal and professional growth,
I would recommend being part of...
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DR. JAYANTA ROY BELIEVES
in repeating his formula for
success. In 1997, Summit
Design acquired his first...
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Why do you think India is viewed more as an “IT services” destination
than as a “product” destination?...
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THIS IS 2007. POSSIBLY 2008.YOU ARE SHOPPING
at your favorite grocery chain outlet.You choose a
can of pasta sauce. As you...
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View From the Top
WHEN I LIVED IN NEW JERSEY
a few years back, it seemed as if
every third Indian I met owned
an IT consulting firm. Lately,...
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Soon after he became prime
minister,Winston Churchill wrote
to the First Lord of the Admiralty
to ask, "Pray Sir, tell me on...
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Openfile
THE RECENT THREAT OF
major war between India and
Pakistan, and the consequent
evacuation warnings issued by
the U.S. State...
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IS THERE A WAY OF HARNESSING THE
extraordinary capacity of the HIV virus to deliver
genes while rendering the normally lethal...
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ASK FIVE SCIENTISTS TO
define "biotechnology" and you'll
get seven definitions. The
nebulousness of the term has
led the...
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WHAT ARE SOME OF THE
challenges involved in
marketing a pharmaceutical
product, and in what ways
is it different from...
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IF SOMEONE COULD PLUG INTO THE ENERGY
Dr.Victoria Hale exudes, it would drive a car across the
continent and back, and still...
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Below the Radar
A DECADE AND A HALF BACK,
U.S. software firms shuddered
to enter India, as the economy
was not yet liberalized.
Around the...
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PALM, WIN-CE, SYMBIAN, J2ME, BREW–THE
platform choices for a mobile device programmer
today are myriad and often...
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2004. It is a Friday evening. Mom comes home after her usual hustle and bustle at work, takes her shoes off, sets her briefcase...
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Business
IT HAS BEEN EIGHT LONG
years since the first of India’s
medical transcription companies
set up shop in Bangalore. From...
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JESSE SINGH IS AN ENTREPRENEUR IN THE
purest sense of the word. He arrived in the U.S. in
1986 after six years of working as...
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PLAN A : TA K E YO U R
company to an IPO and generate
better liquidity. With the bears
showing no sign of letting the...
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Inbox
BPO Brou-ha-ha
The recent issue of siliconindia (June 2002) extols Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) as the biggest thing...
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VC Talk
AR: At what point in the life of a biotech
company do you choose to invest?
SC: I like to invest in the very early
stages of...
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Wall Street View
THE NASDAQ JUST HIT A FIVE YEAR LOW AND you’re fed up with the losses. So you tell your financial advisor, “get me...
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The market is in a depressing downward spiral. A staggering
wave of corporate bad news has hit the headlines. Masses of...
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