Category: governance
Cofounders and the dating analogy
This article is the third in the Startup Series on FirstPost’s Tech2 section and first appeared on Oct the 3rd, 2016. The search for …
Sensor sensibility in governance
A PwC survey found in 2015 that nine out of 10 CEOs believe they “should champion the use of digital technologies to get the …
The design challenge called Indian traffic [2]
An earlier, admittedly ranty post documented the weirdness that is Indian traffic. Though it focused more on vehicular traffic than on pedestrians, any good …
The design challenge called Indian traffic [1]
India’s traffic problem is real. No, seriously. Indian drivers makes Italians look tame and Londoners look like novice drivers. India also has the dubious …
Google's China Game
This morning, my Twitter stream was full of two things: Google’s planned exit from China and the Haitian earthquake. The BBC reported the Google …
Whose data are they anyway?
What a difference two days make! First, T-Mobile in the UK informed the Information Commissioner’s Office that some of its own rogue employees had …
Satyam, corporate governance and emerging markets
Perhaps the most tragic thing about the Satyam saga is the name of the company. Satyam means ‘the truth’ and the company’s fortunes have …
Trust as 'social currency'
Working on the cusp of regulation, investment and strategy, I often think about the role of trust in the information flows that inform investment …
Democracy 2.0?
The term ‘Web 2.0’ has been in use for over 5 years now, although there is some – irrelevant in my view – dispute …
Exemplar organisations, moral dilemmas and academic freedom
Marginal Revolution writes about a new NBER paper from Roland Fryer and Freakonomist Steven Levitt. The summary says (full text of the paper here): …