Thursday, January 29, 2009

CEG KURUKSHETRA BIZ QUIZ PRELIMS!!!!!!

For the third year in a row, renowned quiz master Mr.Gopal Kidao hosted the Kurukshetra Business quiz, in College of Engineering,Guindy.The prelims had a healthymix of questions ranging from "sitter" to "toughies".Here is a look at the questions from the prelims.

##Which cosmetic’s use was practically non-existent until the mass production of plastic shoes revealed toes for the first time in the late 1940s? Nail Polish 

##This was founded by Time co-founder Henry Luce in February 1930, four months after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 that marked the outset of the Great Depression. Briton Hadden, Luce's partner, wasn't enthusiastic about the idea, but Luce went forward with it after Hadden's October 15, 1929 death. Name this magazine. Fortune

##Canada-based Harlequin Enterprises has set up a subsidiary in India to print and distribute which well-known fiction brand? Mills&Boon

##There is some confusion over whether he was named after a scientist or a comic book character. In the book Rebel Code, he is quoted as saying that he thinks he was named equally for both, noting that this makes him half “Nobel-prize-winning chemist” and half “blanket-carrying cartoon character.” Who? Linus Torvalds

##This publishing company is a for-profit subisdiary of the Washington Post Company,  founded in 1938 by it eponymous founder who started the business by tutoring students for the New York State Regents Exam in the basement of his Brooklyn home. The company today provides higher education programs, professional training courses, test preparation materials and other services for various levels of education. Identify this company. Kaplan

##In the 1930s, the now defunct ___ ____ company did something for the first time in the history of stock options. It issued an IPO and then gave its share underwriters the option of selling additional shares in a registered securities setting. The option could vary in size upto 15% of the original IPO. Since that time, an "over-allotment option" similar to this has been called ____ ____ in the name of the company that first did this. Fill in the blanks. Green shoe

##Duchy Originals – the natural, organic product brand which is to make an entry into India and US this year as part of its $5 billion expansion was founded by whom?     Prince Charles 

##Which MNC lighting company (now globally bought over by Havell's except in some markets where Osram owns it, making it the largest Indian takeover of an electric company)  started in the US state of Pennsylvania, and was quite popular in Indian in the 1980s in a joint venture with an Indian company? Sylvania

##What was originally built by LA Times publisher Harry Chandler as an epic $21,000 billboard for his upscale real estate development in 1923? The Sign soon took on the role of giant marquee for a city that was constantly announcing its own gala premiere.Hollywood Sign

##In 1967 he joined the technology company of Bolt Beranek and Newman where he helped develop the TENEX operating system. His pioneering achievement was dismissed by colleagues as “Don't tell anyone! This isn't what we're supposed to be working on.” Who? Ray Tomilson,the guy who fonded E-Mail

##Which organization has its history succinctly depicted on this stamp? Kirloskar

##In 1928 "Blacksmith Hansen" and his son Peder Hansen establish Dansk Staalvindue Industri which manufactured stee
l window frames for industrial buildings.Peder Hansen later left this and together with nine other people established another company whose name was quickly abbreviated to what? VESTAS

 ##Which company with estimated revenues of 1 billion USD and the first or second most desired job for recent MBA graduates since 1996, has no official HQ? McKinsey


##This is the rollback man. Whose logo? Roll Back man
##He taught mathematics to Leonardo da Vinci, wrote a chess book but his fame rests on having laid down the fundamentals of ‘double entry accounting’. Who? 
Luca Pacioli 

##Excerpt from a 1990 work - “XY are the collective learning in the organisation, especially how to co-ordinate diverse production skills and integrate multiple streams of technologies...XY is communication, involvement and a deep commitment to working across organisational boundaries...XY does not diminish with use. Unlike physical assets, which do deteriorate over time, XY are enhanced as they are applied and shared”. XY being which term being introduced in this 1990 work for the first time?
Core Competancy

##What was started by these people? Twitter


Wednesday, January 28, 2009

TOP B SCHOOLS IN THE WORLD

THE FINANCIAL TIMES has released its annual list of "100 TOP GLOBAL MBA".

1.University of Pennsylvania: Wharton: Wharton , USA

1.London Business School , UK

3.Harvard Business School , USA

4.Columbia Business School , USA

5.Insead ,FRANCE / SINGAPORE

6.Stanford University GSB , USA

6.IE Business School , SPAIN

8.Ceibs , CHINA

9.MIT: Sloan , USA

10.New York University: Stern ,USA

11.University of Chicago: Booth , USA

12.Iese Business School, SPAIN

13.Dartmouth College: Tuck , USA

14.IMD , SWITZERLAND

15.Indian School of Business , ISB

ISB is the only indian B-School to feature in the top 100 list. Dont be surprised by the absence of the IIM's, they did not participate.

The Indian School of Business is located in Hyderabad, India providing postgraduate programmes in Management (Master of Business Administration - MBA), post doctoral programmes, as well as executive education programmes for business executives. It was founded on December 2, 1999 by a group of Fortune 500 entrepreneurs in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh's state government. Rajat Gupta, former Managing Director of McKinsey & Company worldwide and Nara Chandrababu Naidu, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh played a key role in establishing the institution

ISB boasts of an illustrious board, some of the board members include Rajat Gupta, Anil Ambani, Rahul Bajaj Yogesh Deveshwar, Kiran Mazumdar–Shaw, K P Singh, Lakshmi Mittal, N R Narayana Murthy, Shiv Nadar, Deepak Parekh, K. V. Kamath, Harish Manwani.

To know more about the Lists of B-schools across the world click

http://www.ft.com/businesseducation/mba

personalities quiz two

Here is a list of Personalities...just identify......I am not giving any hints to the pics just to make the quiz tougher!!!!

1.
23.4.

5.6.7.8.9.
10.

Personalities are from different fields Consulting,Advertsing,Construction,Entertainment,Management,Publishing,Fashion etc etc
mail your answers to "calaicay@gmail.com" 

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

CAROL.A.BARTZ-THE NEW CEO OF YAHOO!

Carol A. Bartz
Carol A. Bartz (born August 29, 1948 in Winona, Minnesota) is the new CEO of Yahoo! and was previously the Chairman, President, and CEO at Autodesk from 1992 until 2009.After college, Bartz worked at 3M, but left after a request to transfer to the headquarters was denied. She has previously worked at Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment Corporation.Bartz became CEO of Autodesk in 1992. According to Forbes, "Since 1992, Bartz, 56, has transformed Autodesk from an aimless maker of PC software into a leader of computer-aided design software, targeting architects and builders."She is credited with instituting and promoting Autodesk's "3F" or "fail-fast forward" concept -- the idea that you engineer a company to fail in certain missions, to be resilient to failure, and to respond to it by overcoming quickly.On January 13, 2009, Bartz was named the CEO of Yahoo!, succeeding co-founder Jerry Yang.She serves on the boards of directors of Intel, Cisco Systems, NetApp, and the Foundation for the National Medals of Science.

TOP TEN INFLUENTIAL TAGLINES

Lets have a look at the "TOP TEN INFLUENTIAL U.S TAGLINES"


1. "Got milk? " (1993) California Milk Processor Board












2. "Don’t leave home without it " (1975) American
Express













3. "Just do it" (1988) Nike











4. "Where’s the beef?" (1984) Wendy’s










5. "You’re in
good hands with Allstate." (1956) Allstate Insurance








6. "Think diffe
rent" (1998) Apple Computer












7. "We try harder" (1962) Avis










8. "Tastes great, less filling" (1974) Miller Lite













9. "Melts in your mouth, not in your hands" (1954) M&M
Candies









10. "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking" (1956) Timex

Monday, January 19, 2009

BIZ FUNDA ONE

BIZ FUNDA ONE

A)Ingredients: Benzophenone-3, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Tocopheryl Acetate,Octyldodecanol, Candelilla Wax, Vegetable Oil, Polyisobutene, Isopropyl Myristate, Carnauba Wax, Octyldodecyl Stearoyl Stearate, Avocado Oil, Beeswax, Jojoba Seed Oil, Shea Butter, Ethylhexyl, Methoxycinnamate, Ozokerite, Ethylhexyl Salicylate, Butylparaben, Propylparaben: Castor Seed Oil, Silica, Talc, Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate, Mica (CI 77019), Titanium Dioxide,Iron Oxides, Red 6 (CI 15850), Red 7 Lake (CI 15850), Red 22 Lake (CI 45380), Red 28 Lake (CI 45410), Red 30 Lake (CI 73360), Red 33 Lake (CI 17200), Yellow 5 Lake (CI 19140), Yellow 6 Lake (CI 15985), Blue 1 Lake (CI 42090), Bismuth Oxychloride (CI 77163).............IDENTIFY THE PRODUCT:)....

B)The following ad campaign was launched by Chemical Bank in the US in 1969 "On September 2, we'll open at nine and never close again." This was actually the punch line for a particular technology/product launch. What?

C)This newspaper started in 1888 as a four page weekly published every Saturday and became a daily only 40 years later. Identify.

D)X is a cartoon character created by Joanna Ferrone and Sue Rose. Rose first developed the character in 1985 on a napkin in a restaurant. X was licensed to Y in the 1980s, but the character did not receive much usage or popularity until the early 1990s on numerous products, particularly stationery. He reappeared in the 2000s and is currently used on cans and advertising for Z in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, the UK, Ireland, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel and India.
X has been licensed to Y for their Z and Slice brands. Identify X,Y and Z.

E)In the late 1960’s Honda started to invade the US and UK markets with its motorcycles. The British manufacturers failed to recognize an important innovation in the Honda motorcycles and were so slow to respond that Honda soon displaced them as market-leader. Which innovation?

F)The concept dates back to 6500 years ago in Greece when women used it. Initially known as aspodesmos or mastodenton it was just a band of cloth that was used. The first prototype was patented in 1859 by Henry Lesher of New York to ‘give a symmetrical rotundity’. But it was Herminie Cadolle of France who made the first modern design in 1889. The history of what is being discussed?



ANSWERS: A)Lipstick B)First ATM C)MALAYALA MANORAMA D)FIDO,PEPSI,7UP E)Electric Starters F)BRA

Faces of "SATYAM"

THE FACES OF "SATYAM"



THE FOUNDER:

Byrraju Ramalinga Raju (born September 16, 1954)
He did his B.Com at Andhra Loyola College,Vijayawada and received an MBA degree from Ohio University.
Raju founded Satyam in 1987 after venturing earlier into other businesses such as construction and textiles.

THE SATYAM'S EX-BOARD:

Krishna Palepu is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for International Development, at the Harvard Business School.


Prof. Mendu Rammohan Rao is the former Dean of Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.
He has a PHD in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University. He also has a Master in Engineering and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management.He has held various positions at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B).


Vinod Dham
completed his undergraduate education in Electrical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.In 1971, after graduation, he joined a Delhi-based semiconductor company called Continental Devices. In 1975, he left this job and joined University of Cincinnati to pursue a masters degree in Electrical Engineering.After completing his masters degree in 1977, he joined NCR Corporation at Dayton, Ohio. He then joined Intel, and started working on the Pentium chip.
He is called the "Father of Pentium" for his role in the development of the Pentium processor.


THE INTERIM CEO
RAM MYNAMPATI RAMA RAJU,brother of Ramalinga Raju


THE TAINTED AUDITING FIRM
PRICE WATER COOPERS

Saturday, January 17, 2009

BIZ QUIZZES IN CHENNAI !!!!!!

IIT MADRAS SAARAANG 09:
BIZ QUIZ Prelims:
Date-23 rd Jan
Timings- 9am to 11am
venue-PhLt,ChLt
BIZ QUIZ Finals:
Date-24th Jan
Timings-9am to 12 am
Venue:ICSR main audi

CEG KURUKSHETRA 09:
BIZ QUIZ Prelims&FINALS:
Date-23 rd Jan
Timings- 20:00-23:30
venue-Vivekanda Audi,CEG Anna Univ

IIT DOMS SAMANVAY 09:
BIZ QUIZ Prelims&FINALS:
Date-25 th Jan
Timings- 13:00-15:00
venue-MRC,Central Library,IIT Madras

BIG MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN 2008

Lets have a look at the mergers and acquisitions that happenned in 2008....an India specific view

ACQUIRER: Daiichi Sankyo
TARGET: Ranbaxy
SECTOR: Healthcare
VALUE($Mn): 4,506.31
STAKE: 60.63%

ACQUIRER: ONGC
TARGET: Imperial energy PLC
SECTOR: Oil&Gas
VALUE($Mn): 2,800.00
STAKE: 100.00%

ACQUIRER: NTT DOCOMO
TARGET: TATA TELESERVICES
SECTOR: TELECOM
VALUE($Mn):  2,7000
STAKE: 26%

ACQUIRER: HDFC bank
TARGET: Centurion Bank of Punjab
SECTOR: Banking
VALUE($Mn): 2,377.50
STAKE: 100%

ACQUIRER: TATA Motors
TARGET: Jaquar & land rover
SECTOR: Automotive
VALUE($Mn): 2,300.00
STAKE: 100%

 

ACQUIRER: Telenor Asa
TARGET: Unitech Wireless
SECTOR: Telecom
VALUE($Mn): 1,360.00
STAKE: 60%

ACQUIRER: GMR Infra
TARGET: InterGen NV
SECTOR: Power & Energy
VALUE($Mn): 1,100.00
STAKE: 50%

ACQUIRER: TATA Chemicals
TARGET: General Chemical Industrial Products
SECTOR: Plastic & chemicals
VALUE($Mn): 1,005.00
STAKE: 100%

ACQUIRER: Emirates Telecom
TARGET: Swan Telecom
SECTOR: Telecom
VALUE($Mn): 900
STAKE: 45%

ACQUIRER: HCL technologies
TARGET: Axon Group plc
SECTOR: IT & ITES
VALUE($Mn): 749.7
STAKE: 100%

 

Friday, January 2, 2009

FIVE MAD BUSINESS BLUNDERS

Blunderer 1: Seattle Computer Products
Blunder 1: Sale of the DOS operating system


Back in 1980, Tim Paterson, a 24-year-old programmer at Seattle Computer Products, spent four months writing the 86-DOS operating system. Meanwhile, Bill Gates was on a hunt for operating software that Microsoft could license to IBM; Big Blue had the money and factories to build computers, but not the operating system to run them. Gates bought the DOS system for a pittance: $50,000. When Seattle Computer figured out what it had let slip through its fingers, it accused Microsoft of swindling the company by not revealing that IBM was its customer; Microsoft settled by compensating Seattle Computer an additional $1 million in 1986. Big deal--the market for the rest of Microsoft's cool software had been born, and there was no looking back. Arguably, this key deal ultimately propelled Microsoft to software domination--and its current $253 billion valuation.

Size Of Blunder: $253 billion


Blunderer 2: Time Warner Shareholders
Blunder 2: The merger of AOL and Time Warner


On Feb. 11, 2000, Internet portal America Online, then valued at $108 billion, swallowed media stalwart Time-Warner (worth $111 billion) for $164 billion in an all-stock deal. AOL owned 55% of the new, combined company; Time-Warner, 45%. Then came the tech wreck of 2001, followed by the rise of stiff competitors Yahoo! and Google. As cultures clashed and the stock price tanked, the company in 2002 reported a one-time write-off of $99 billion--at the time, the largest corporate loss ever reported. At its nadir, the firm boasted a meager market cap of $48 billion--$171 billion less than at the time of the merger. Time Warner is now worth about $53 billion.

Size Of Blunder: $196 billion


Blunderer 3: Xerox
Blunder 3: Inability to capitalize real big ideas


In the early 1970s, Xerox developed world-changing computer technology, including the mouse and the graphical user interface. (Modern GUIs include Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.) One of the devices was called the Xerox Alto, a desktop personal computer that Xerox never bothered to market. (Who would want something like that?) A decade later, several Apple employees, including Steve Jobs, visited the Xerox PARC research and development facility for three days in exchange for $1 million in Apple's still-privately held stock. That educational field trip was well worth the price of admission (Apple stock now worth $3.5 billion), given that it helped Jobs build a company now worth $110 billion. In the late 1980s, Xerox sued Apple for using GUI technology in its Macintosh computer, but the case was dismissed--the statute of limitations on the dispute had passed.

Size Of Blunder: $107 billion



Blunderer 4: Enron Executives
Blunder 4: Greed and deception


The now infamous Houston-based energy company created offshore entities to hide huge losses--maneuvers that even a careful read of its opaque financial statements could hardly detect. Analysts turned sour on the company in the summer of 2001; Enron filed for bankruptcy before year's end. From its peak market cap of $78 billion, the equity is now worthless, and key executives--including Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Skilling and Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, are doing jail time on charges including securities fraud and insider trading.

Size Of Blunder: $93 billion



Blunderer 5: The World's Central Banks

Blunder 5: Global economic upheaval


U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his counterparts across the globe have the power to jump-start or derail entire economies by cranking the credit spigot open or closed. Rubert Mundell, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in economics, has argued that "bungled monetary policy in the 1920s and 1930s caused chronic deflation [falling prices] and destabilized the world," writes author Charles Wheelan in his book Naked Economics. Mundell's argument: "'Had the price of gold been raised in the late 1920s, or, alternatively, had the major central banks pursued policies of price stability instead of adhering to the gold standard, there would have been no Great Depression, no Nazi revolution, and no World War II.'" Those are fighting words--let's hope Bernanke and company don't earn a spot on this list.

Size Of Blunder: Our calculator just broke. phew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

INDIA'S TOP 20 RICHEST INDIVIDUALS

Here is a compilation of Top twenty richest indians along with their Brief profiles!!!!!!

read as
Rank(company name) (Networth $million) [age] Location

1 Mukesh Ambani (RELIANCE INDUSTRIES) 20,800 [51] Mumbai
2 Lakshmi Mittal (ARCELOR MITTAL) 20,500 [58] London
3 Anil Ambani (ADAG) 12,500 [49] Mumbai
4 Sunil Mittal (BHARTI AIRTEL) 7,900 [51] Delhi
5 Kushal Pal Singh (DLF) 7,800 [77] Delhi
6 Shashi & Ravi Ruia (ESSAR) 7,600 [64] Mumbai
7 Azim Premji (WIPRO) 7,000 [63] Bangalore
8 Kumar Birla (ADTHIYA BIRLA GROUP) 5,000 [41] Mumbai
9 Adi Godrej (GODREJ) 4,000 [66] Mumbai
10 Gautam Adani (ADANI GROUP) 3,900 [46] Ahmedabad
11 Dilip Shanghvi (SUN PHARMA) 3,100 [53] Mumbai
12 Savitri Jindal (JINDAL STEEL) 2,900 [59] Delhi & Hisar
13 Malvinder&Shivinder Singh (RANBAXY) 2,800 [36] Delhi
14 Anil Agarwal (VEDANTHA RESOURCES) 2,400 [55 ] London
15 Shiv Nadar (HCL) 2,200 [63 ] Delhi
16 Micky Jagtiani (LANDMARK GROUP) 2,000 [57] Dubai
17 Indu Jain (BENNETT & COLEMAN LTD) 1,800 [72] Delhi
18 Cyrus Poonawalla (Pharma industry)) 1,600 [67] Pune
19 Uday Kotak (KOTAK GROUP) 1,550 [49] Mumbai
20 Chandru Raheja (CHANDRA RAHEJA GROUP) 1,500 [ 68] Mumbai