Harsha Bhogle at IIM-A in 2005 excellent thoughts of 1:17 hrs

Hi Guys,

excellent speech from Harsha in 2005 and i recommend must listen to every one

http://abhisays.com/ideas-and-thoughts/harsha-bhogle-inspirational-speech-at-iim-ahmedabad.html

Link Referral

Khan Academy
Many Thanks to Suresh V for his contribution. For this, he gets a honorary welcome to our forum. :-)

Wikipedia Excerpt - "The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization created by Salman Khan. Shantanu Sinha is the President and COO of the Khan Academy. With the stated mission "of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the Academy supplies a free online collection of just under 2,000 videos on mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and economics."

Topics for Session 2 on 19th Dec 2010

Contribution from Shailesh:
1 Sustainable lifestyle/agriculture,
2 Financial Engineering,
3 Role of interest rate derivatives and intuition behind some of the commonly traded options and instruments.

Session 1: Topics discussed

1. Tools

•  Webex
•  Blogspot
•  Stumbleupon

2. Economy

• Equities currently overpriced (be extra cautious if you're thinking about getting into the market)
• Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore have all taken active steps to cool down the Housing market
• Cisco's stock and implications to the broader economy
• Book review/recommendation Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram G. Rajan (Winner of the 2010 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award)
• Purchase of Chinese RMB and Gold. Exert caution if purchasing Gold Builion as Fake Gold is in circulation in the HK market.

3. Podcast Referrals 

ABC Background Briefings - Excellent Podcasts:

1. A wide open land (Land, Food - Sustainability and the buying up of Agricultural assets by Foreign Corporates in anticipation of profiting from the coming food shortages on account of rapid population growth in Asia)
2. The flash crash
3. Freefall: free markets and the sinking of the global economy

Webex Session Recording:
https://cisco.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=47996622&rKey=b8c76d2a6263164a
Birds Of A Feather Forum-20101205 1110-1
Sunday, December 5, 2010 7:10 pm Singapore Time
38 Minutes

Inaugural Posting

"Hello World"! :-)

Fist session start date: Sunday, 5th Dec 2010

Webex Dial-in details:

Dial-In Numbers:

HK: 3406 1000

Singapore: 6317 7088

Conference ID/Meeting Number: 202 357 650

Meeting Password: BOAF

Webex Link: https://cisco.webex.com/cisco/j.php?J=202357650&PW=NNzNhOGNhZjc3

Blog: http://boafhk.blogspot.com

Participants

Like minded individuals representing a cross-section of the industry (IT, SP, Manufacturing, Finance, etc)

Topics

Sharing of New Trends, Ideas and thoughts relating to Economy, Internet, Media from a myriad of sources, including but not limited to Books, Podcasts, Internet, print media

What is this forum about

1.      To share information that can in turn help us excel in our individual roles in work, life and society.
2.      Allow us to leverage our collective knowledge
3.      Allow us to devote time to delve into 'special topics of interest' by nominating a 'researcher'/pool of researchers

What is this forum is NOT about

Selling/Pitching of any vendor/consultancy products/services

Why are we doing this?

Very simply because the power of many is greater than the power of one (not unless you are a genius!)

Innovation and ideas are spurned by cross-industry solution

When will it happen?

We all lead very busy lives and it's impossible to find a time in the week that suits everyone. Hence, we are putting a 'stake in the ground' and going with a time that could work for all - Bi-weekly, Sunday, 7pm for a half an hour session.

How will people interact with each other

Ground rules:

- Every session will have a time-keeper and note-taker nominated during the first five minutes of each session

- During this first five minutes, we will have a quick round-table to solicit the topics that people are looking to contribute for the session (going forward, this could be done in advance of the session)

- Time-keeper to 'enforce' maximum 10 minutes per topic allowing us a max of three topics per session

How will this work?

Over a webex conference call hosted by Cisco that allows screen sharing and session recording. PC/Mac/iPad would not be required to participate in the call.

Where will past information be available

On a blog dedicated to write-ups and recordings of past events

http://boafhk.blogspot.com