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February 17, 2010

Should CEOs and other Senior Managers use social media?

I was a delegate at the just concluded Nasscom Leadership Summit in Mumbai. It was extremely well organized with huge participation from many executives and CEOs from accross the globe. There was an interesting track on Social networking and applicability of the same for today's CEOs.  There was participation from various experts in the space about the need of senior leadership of today to be aware and participate in social media. It is important for the leaders and the organizations to understand the challenges of what they are getting into by actually getting into it...

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February 05, 2010

World Economic Forum Findings on Private Equity

Apologies that this is a bit overdue, I could not completely miss the opportunity to share some perspective considering Davos just wrapped up and Infosys’ role in the WEF. Not sure how many of you saw the latest report installment from the WEF on the impact of Private Equity (http://www.weforum.org/pdf/FinancialInstitutions/PrivateEquity_VolIII_WorkingPapers.pdf), but it has been (not) surprisingly positive considering the usual reputation PE gets in mainstream media coverage. This third report investigated 20 industries across 26 countries from 1991 to 2007 (you lose the impact of the last market meltdown, but have a significant number of years in the sample) to examine the macroeconomic effect of PE on industry performance while taking cyclicality into account.

 

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January 12, 2010

Coming Back From the Holiday

Hope you all had a great break, I will be picking up the Private Equity posting again starting this week.

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Looking Forward at Deal Making in 2010

A recent Ernst & Young study solidified what many of us have already been thinking about 2010 (www.ey.com). It will be a year of increased activity with smaller deals and more rigorous due diligence activity. While more CEOs are anticipating making moves (the study showed that 33% expected to complete a transaction in the next 12 months), my big question is who will be the buyers? If you assume Private Equity, you may be mistaken.

 

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