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		<title>IIFT EMIB</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/iift-emib/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been exactly five long years since I joined for my EMIB (Executive Masters in International business) from the prestigious Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi! I joined it on 9th August 2004. Time flies! But can say for sure that this degree has been my best investment made on education till date. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=1007&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rolodex not available in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With my burgeoning business level contacts I have managed to so carefully develop over the years, I wanted a Rolodex desperately to store all my business card contacts and have been researching a lot on the Internet. I have a powerful contact list on my LinkedIn as well but I still am a firm believer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=973&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NLSIU classes/update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I blogged about this endeavor I have undertaken.
I have to say that I found this course more demanding than what I envisaged. I had to postpone taking up my examinations to Jan 2010 due to time constraints I faced in balancing both my studies at NLSIU and my work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=946&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Economic recession and a pandemic &#8211; correlation</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/economic-recession-and-a-pandemic-correlation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears this correlation appears to be quite high. The last economic crisis hit in 2001 with the dot com and telecom bubble burst and that was instantly followed by 9/11 and then the SARS crisis in South East Asia and the Anthrax cases in USA.
This time, there was an economic crisis that hit the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=898&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brawn GP scores 1/2 in the Australian Grand Prix</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Ross Brawn. The ex-bosses of this team back at Japan must be kicking themselves that they were so near yet so far from their incorrect decision in withdrawing from F1 a tad early after all the hardwork!
But, nothing can be taken away from Ross Brawn and the way he interpreted the rules for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=861&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should a recession affect your purchasing decision making?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the reduction in purchasing decisions/actual purchases made a good thing or a bad thing during recessionary times. While technically, India is still motoring along at over 5.5% GDP growth and is tipped to be the 2nd fastest growing economy in the world for 2009 (a miserable year for other world economies), should the discerning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=813&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Berkshire Hathaway Annual report 2008 / a must read</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/berkshire-hathaway-annual-report-2008-a-must-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2008ar/2008ar.pdf
You can&#8217;t be mistaken when you are reading from the greatest punters in the Financial space &#8211; Warren Buffett. The Chairman&#8217;s letter to shareholders did not dissappoint me. It was filled with the usual interesting titbits on his insurance ops and business, the concept of insurance &#8216;float&#8217;, his profit margins, the stake he took in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=809&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has the retail bubble in India burst?</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/has-the-retail-bubble-in-india-burst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had blogged about retail opportunities in India about an year and a half ago here - http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/retail-opportunities-in-india/
It was not even an year ago that we witnessed almost every large corporate worth their salt open up stores in the name of &#8220;retail&#8221; looking for every opportunity to outwit and throw out your neighbourhood &#8220;kirana store&#8221;.
But, less [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=797&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama &#8211; Mr. President of the United States of America!</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/barack-obama-mr-president-of-the-united-states-of-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is the ultimate modern tech savvy Blackberry wielding Mr President of the United States of America. For once, I see genuine hope in the way the US will go about sorting out its financial mess and it&#8217;s foreign policies.
Checkout: http://www.whitehouse.gov
As with most Americans and millions from other countries and their citizens, I did not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=711&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Satyam fiasco &#8211; Ramalinga Raju&#8217;s misadventures</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/the-satyam-fiasco-raju-confessions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for not blogging about this earlier. I did not have access to broadband Internet at my home for the last 3 days and was working off my Blackberry for office related tasks.
While the economic and financial implications have been written about far and wide and everyone is busy reading the tea leaves, what are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=681&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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