Indian private equity investments may touch 2007 peak this year
The Economic Times 7/19/2010
by Paramita Chatterjee
At a time when global markets, such as US and Europe, are still crawling out of economic slowdown, private equity (PE) investments in India are expected to gain momentum and hit the previous peak of 2007. "Action is heating up in the PE space and a host of limited partners from the global market, especially the US, are now looking at India as an investment destination," said Sri Rajan, partner and head of the PE practice in India at Bain & Company.
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Indian private equity investments may touch 2007 peak this year
Economic Times 7/19/2010
Venture capital (VC) and PE fund flows in the country are expected to rebound to $17 billion for the calendar year 2010, according to a survey by consulting firm Bain & Company. "Action is heating up in the PE space and a host of limited partners from the global market, especially the US, are now looking at India as an investment destination," said Sri Rajan, partner and head of the PE practice in India at Bain & Company.
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A brief history of online shopping
Time 7/16/2010
by Kayla Webley
More than 150 million people - about two-thirds of all Internet users in the U.S. - bought something online last year. Even famously resistant designers and luxury retailers are putting goods online. According to Bain & Company's 2009 luxury-goods study, while the luxury-goods industry overall lost 8 percent worldwide in 2009, luxury sales online grew 20 percent.
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Consulting: the industry is changing - as are its recruitment policies
mba-channel.com 7/15/2010
by Barbara Bierach
The elite management consultancies were one of the great business success stories of the last decades. Firms such as Bain & Company, BCG, Booz Allen & Hamilton, AT Kearney and Arthur D Little became high-quality brands. Last year, large multinationals spent 12% less on strategic consultancy than in the previous year. Even then, the strongest top-tier strategic consultancies - Bain, McKinsey and BCG - kept growing. Steve Ellis, global managing partner for Bain & Company, says his firm is on target to achieve 30% growth in revenue this year, taking Bain over the 2 billion dollar mark in sales. He sees his business, along with McKinsey and BCG, pulling away from the rest of the market, at least in terms of top-level strategic advice for global companies. They are in the recruitment market too.
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The perils of flextime
CFO Magazine 7/15/2010
by Alix Stuart
Flexible work arrangements are popular, but they may exact a price - particularly from women who hope to become CFOs. "If half of your employees are doing a flexible-schedule model, you have to deal with career-pathing, but if it's only 5% or 10% and they're all women having babies, it's easy to ignore promotion paths and then realize you've lost a bunch of talent," says Julie Coffman, a partner at Bain & Company who is helping the global consulting firm define its own promotion paths for employees on nontraditional schedules.
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