liquidity – Karthik Shashidhar

books, business, platforms, work liquidity, management consulting, market making, professional services firms, transaction costs

The nature of the professional services firm

August 30, 2017

This is yet another rejected section from my soon-t0-be-published book Between the buyer and the seller. In 2006, having just graduated from business school, I started my career working for a leading management consulting firm. This firm had been one of the most sought after employers for students at my school, and the salary they offered…

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Urban living and restaurants and liquidity

January 5, 2010

Last night I had dinner at Alfanoose, a small Mediterranean joint off Broadway. I had hummus and salad with pita bread, and had also brought along a falafel sandwich which is now sitting in my fridge and is likely to get consumed today for breakfast. Excellent stuff. Absolutely brilliant. And not expensive at all –…

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Arranged Scissors 5 – Finding the Right Exchange

If you look at my IIMB grade card, one subject stands out. It is one of the two Cs that I have on the card, and the other was in a “dead rubber” (5th/6th term where grades didn’t matter for placements). This C was in introductory marketing management. Where the major compoenent was a group…