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V Raghunathan

V Raghunathan (www.vraghunathan.com) is a former academic (professor of finance, IIM Ahmedabad), a former banker (president, ING Vysya Bank), and a former corporate CEO (managing director, GMR Industries Ltd). Currently, he is the CEO of GMR Varalakshmi Foundation and a visiting professor at the University of Bocconi, Milan, Italy.

Some of his books include Games Indians Play (Penguin, 2006), Don’t Sprint The Marathon (HarperCollins, 2010) and The Corruption Conundrum And Other Paradoxes And Dilemmas (Penguin, 2010).

Raghunathan is also a columnist of long standing, with over 450 papers and articles to his credit. He sits on numerous boards and lectures extensively in India and abroad.
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Monday, January 17, 2011
What is so compulsive about the phone call that we are willing to interrupt any of our other engagements? Read the entire column »
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Status quo bias is innate to human nature. When consent is presumed given unless denied, few of us tend to change it. Read the entire column »
Friday, December 3, 2010
A vegetable vendor increases the price of onion from Rs25 a kg to Rs45 overnight. Is it unfair? You can’t say unless you know the reason for the price increase. Read the entire column »
Friday, November 19, 2010
We tend to do what everyone else is doing and everyone else is doing what everybody else is doing and so on. Read the entire column »
Saturday, November 6, 2010
We all suffer from an observational bias. We forget the good times and vividly remember the painful ones. Read the entire column »
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Human nature ensures that our answers are different depending on how one frames the question. Read the entire column »
Saturday, October 9, 2010
In most situations one may face it is the ending that matters and not the beginning. This is called the Peak-End rule. Read the entire column »
Saturday, September 25, 2010
The greater the choice on offer — whether at restaurants or car models — the greater our regret once we make a choice. Read the entire column »
Friday, September 10, 2010
A notional loss is easier to live with than a real loss. So why convert the notional loss into a real one by selling shares? Read the entire column »
Saturday, August 28, 2010
We take bad news badly but we do not accept good news with enthusiasm. The happiness and the pain are not symmetric for the same gain or loss. Read the entire column »


   
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