An Evening of Philanthropy, Tech and Celebrities

An Evening of Philanthropy, Tech and Celebrities.

Gutenberg to Support Business Summit During Obama’s India Visit

MUMBAI—Gutenberg Communications, an international public and investor relations firm, has been selected by the U.S.-India Business Council to lead a communications campaign for The Business and Entrepreneurship Summit on November 6, during President Barack Obama’s first State Visit to India. The conference will be hosted by the USIBC, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Confederation of Indian Industry. Read more

Gutenberg Communications to manage PR for US-India business summit

NEW DELHI – Global strategic communications firm Gutenberg Communications has been appointed to manage media relations for a major business summit featuring President Barack Obama.

Gutenberg Communications has been appointed by the US-India Business Council (USIBC) to lead a communications campaign for “The Business and Entrepreneurship Summit” during President Barack Obama’s first state visit to India.

Held on the 6 November in Mumbai, the conference will be hosted by the USIBC, the US Department of Commerce and the Confederation of Indian Industry.  Read more >>

NEW DELHI – Global strategic communications firm Gutenberg Communications has been appointed to manage media relations for a major business summit featuring President Barack Obama

India travelers worry over BlackBerry

The Indian government continues to insist that it will cripple all Blackberry devices in the country if the smartphone company doesn’t agree to unlock some of its private data. But the government is facing new pressure to back down from its threats from business travelers and visitors. Raymond Thibodeaux reports.

RAYMOND THIBODEAUX:  Many in India say that the government is ignoring how critical the BlackBerry is to business. Harjiv Singh is co-founder of the public relations firm, Gutenberg Communications. He travels between New York and New Delhi.

HARJIV SINGH: I hope they come up with a solution pretty quickly. It’s not just me, I have my entire team in India that uses BlackBerry. Read more >>

Corporate Attitude In India

Corporate Attitude In India  >>>By Ramana Rajgopaul

I recently read a book called The India Way which made me regret that I am no longer part of the very exciting Indian business scene. Many things that Professional Managers of my generation longed for could not materialize due the stifling anti business Socialism atmosphere that existed then. A lot of water has flown down the Ganges since then and this book makes all Indians proud and particularly so, people like me. Read more

It happens only in India by Sudeshna Sen

Speaking from London, Sudeshna Sen explains why The India Way is a must read and what lessons the book holds for doing business in India.

Once in a while, something comes along that gives me that warm glow of feeling, ‘hey, I’ve been on the right track’ . Ever since I came to live and work in Europe, I’ve ranted almost incessantly about how things are done here. So even though it’s not quite brand new, I’m going to tell you all about this book I’ve been waiting for someone to write. The India Way, it’s written by a bunch of Wharton professors, including two of Indian origin. Ho hum, you could say. How many more management gurus of Indian origin? Read more…

You Must Have the Elevator Pitch

My first entrepreneurial venture was a health-care software company in New York. Armed with two graduate degrees, a few years of experience and boundless optimism, I plunged into the rollercoaster world of a technology start-up.

The first order of business was to raise cash. Our timing was impeccable; we set up shop four weeks after the Nasdaq market reached its dot-com-driven peak on March 10, 2000. In our first few weeks of operations, we gave scant attention to the weekly stream of negative headlines pronouncing the end of the dot-com era. We firmly held to the belief that our company was different. Ignorance, as the poet Thomas Gray put it, is bliss. (read more)

Opening the doors to THE INDIA WAY of Doing Business

Indian business leaders “have a much higher capacity to handle ambiguity in business situations” in the words of MICO’s M. Lakshminarayan, and thus, “are very, very flexible in handling problems.” These turbulent and uncertain times call for just such CEOs believe Professors Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh, Jitendra Singh and Michael Useem at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Their forthcoming book The India Way – How India’s Top Business Leaders are Revolutionizing Management published by Harvard Business School Press, is a result of interviews with Indian business leaders and makes some compelling arguments why India Inc. is distinctive and relevant for the developed world;

In less than two decades, Indian companies have managed not only to overcome a 1000 years of dependence but they have caught up with some of their better known western competition in some industries. It is indeed an impressive record.  By Kamini Banga (Read more)

Product Description

This title offers innovative management practice from India’s leading companies and what companies everywhere can learn from it. For much of the last century, the practice of management was dominated by Western, particularly U.S., models. Even economies emerging in the latter part of the century evolved toward the Western paradigm. But today, we see a distinct model of management developing in India and, so far, it has been remarkably successful. India’s top companies are growing at staggering rates and doing so with an innovative and vibrant set of management practices – especially in strategy, leadership, governance, talent and organizational culture. Not bound to Western thinking or practice, Indian leaders are creating a new model for leading and running companies. And just as American managers turned to Japan in the past for innovative management methods, they can now look to India for what it takes to build fast, flexible and lean enterprises. Written by the Wharton India Team (talent guru Peter Cappelli, strategy gurus Harbir Singh and Jitendra Singh and leadership guru Michael Useem) and based on decades of experience consulting and teaching in India along with over 100 interviews of the heads of India’s largest companies, this book closely examines what Indian managers do differently and how their management innovations work, which of these innovations could be transferable to the Western context and ultimately how this new management model could one day modify or even supplant the old.

About the Author

Peter Cappelli is Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School. He is the author of several books and articles and frequently cited in the business media. Harbir Singh is Professor of Management and Co-Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School. Jitendra Singh is a Professor of Management at the Wharton School Michael Useem is Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School. He is the author of several books and articles.

Connectiva Systems Selects Gutenberg Communications as its Global Agency of Record

Gutenberg to Provide Integrated Media Relations and Thought Leadership Program for US, UK and India

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Gutenberg Communications, a global strategic communications firm offering public and investor relations services, has been selected as the public relations Agency of Record (AOR) for Connectiva Systems, a leading provider of revenue and risk management solutions for the telecommunications industry. Read more

How to manage brand reputation in the Twitter Age

Microblogging services such as Twitter and an infinite host of other social media platforms have enabled anyone with online access to communicate instantly with a global audience. As such, we now live in a world of billions of potential influencers.

One person’s opinions about a company, regardless of whether those opinions are based on evidence, speculation or emotional impulse, can spread within minutes among networks comprising thousands, sometimes even millions, of individuals. for more details