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...you’re in charge, provide others with that chance.” The preparation for this kind of leadership is the centerpiece of the HBS education he said. “For decades, Cambridge has supplied Wall Street, Main Street and Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong, and Mumbai with a steady stream of leaders,” he said. “They achieved greatness not because their Harvard degrees entitled them to it, but because of their creativity, their determination, and their strong sense of accountability.” He praised the quality of a Harvard education?...
...crates of grapes from a truck pulled up to a spotless loading dock. A quality-control expert samples every tenth crate; if the grapes are good a team will ready them for delivery within hours to Reliance Fresh stores around Bangalore and as far away as Hyderabad and even Mumbai (formerly Bombay). If they're not, workers will inspect the entire shipment and discard anything below standard. Uniformed men spray lemons with water, cover crates of coriander with moistened burlap to stop the greens wilting and scan bar codes on the end of each crate. Reliance will soon install...
...India's government and industries backed a publicity campaign dubbed "India Everywhere," which overwhelmed conference attendees with facts and figures about the wonderful new India. But since I arrived in India almost seven months ago from Africa, I have heard countless foreign businessmen and women in New Delhi and Mumbai (formerly Bombay) complaining about the gap between the image India projects and the reality. Last month, when I spoke to a group of global executives from a division of a FORTUNE 500 company who had decided to have their quarterly meeting in India, one of them asked why his cell...
...timing of the bombing may be linked to the sentencing Friday of 100 people convicted of playing a role in a series of deadly blasts in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), in 1993. Those attacks, which killed 257 people, were carried out by the Muslim-dominated Mumbai underworld to avenge earlier religious riots that had left 2,000 people dead. But the authors and motive of Friday's mosque bombing could remain a mystery. Months after last year's bomb attacks that killed more than 35 people near a mosque in the western state of Maharashtra, there are still no suspects beyond...
...three full-service carriers and three or four budget airlines, predicts Kaul. Their health may depend on how quickly planned airport improvements are completed. A new airport is scheduled to open in Bangalore next year; work is also under way on new terminals in New Delhi and Mumbai (formerly Bombay), with completion set for 2010 and 2012, respectively. The improvements can't come soon enough for travelers like Mehta. "We've got all these new planes and flights," says Mehta. "Finally they're starting to fix the airports...