In-class discussion questions for Mar 25

We will discuss these questions on Wed, Mar 25. Do not pose comments on this.

• What are Barti Airtel’s core competencies? Or what should be core competencies for Bharti to compete and survive successfully?
• Why did Mr. Gupta, the managing director of Bharti, say “Budgeting for capital expenditures was a nightmare”? (p. 1)
• In a relationship between Bharti and Ericsson, What are the interests of Bharti? What are the interests of Ericsson?
• In the proposed outsourcing contract with the network vendors, how will Bharti pay, for what?
• With IBM, how will Bharti pay, for what?