Talk of Many Things

The experience, rather than the course content, seems to be core to the success of Harvard Business School in its last 100 years of its existence, according to its leading…

Explaining why Apple didn't get into PDAs, Steve Jobs said in a recent FORTUNE magazine interview, "when we were pressured for years to do a PDA, I realized that 90% of the…

I read about MoFuse in TechCrunch yesterday. According to TechCrunch, MoFuse is a service that will take your website and instantly create a mobile version of it, sparing you the…

A few months ago, I'd written about being left in the broadband slowlane in London / UK (click here to read this post). At long last, there seems to be…

Residents of London would've surely noticed the recent spate of ads by CapitalOne in local newspapers, bus shelters and on the Internet promising a one minute response to your application…

For many people, choice may be its own reward, but as I pointed out in my blog post "Cost of Choice" (click here to read this post), the choice offered…

I wish readers of Talk of Many Things a Happy New Year 2008. Thanks to the scores of readers who wrote back with comments (bouquets and brickbats) through 2007 -…

The recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of MaxJet re-ignites discussions over the value proposition of business class travel in general and of business-class-only airlines in particular. Any discussion over value…

There's so much news reported these days about investments being made in western companies, especially financial institutions, by sovereign funds from China, Singapore and the Middle East. Recent examples include…

To use a well-worn cliche, the Internet has changed everything. Especially shopping. Nowadays, whenever you set out to buy something, there're so many choices, there's so much information available and…