Management - general
Carlos Ghosn, Nissan’s legendary CEO, to step aside
23 Feb 2017
Carlos Ghosn will step aside as CEO after leading Nissan Motors for 16 years, letting him concentrate on deploying his cost-cutting expertise across its alliance with Renault SA and newly added Mitsubishi Motors Corp
Snapdeal axes 600; co-founders Bahl, Bansal take 100% pay cut
23 Feb 2017
Snapdeal co-founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal admitted in an email to employees that they had started growing too fast and diversifying too much, and added they would now look for the right mix
Chandrasekaran chairs Tata Sons board meeting for the first time
21 Feb 2017
N Chandrasekaran plans to focus on leveraging the collective strength of the group and bring greater rigour to capital allocation so as to deliver superior returns to shareholders
Samsung chief Jay Y Lee arrested in graft scandal
17 Feb 2017
Lee, scion of South Korea's richest family, is a suspect in the influence-peddling scandal that led parliament to impeach President Park Geun-hye in December
Infosys tweaks severance pay rules
13 Feb 2017
The Infosys board has agreed to change the severance pay rules of its management team, which co-founder Narayana Murthy had criticised as violation of corporate governance norms
How startups can use engagement to reduce attrition and increase productivity
09 Feb 2017
Ask most startups what their biggest challenge is, and they’re quick to say “Talent”. In other words, ‘manpower’, and they are right, says Hardik Harsora, co-founder of Effex Business Solution
The social side of flexible working
09 Feb 2017
Tata Sons shareholders vote to remove Mistry as director
06 Feb 2017
While Tata Trusts, which hold a 66-per cent stake in the group, could easily eject Mistry from Tata Sons' board, the National Company Law Tribunalwill be hearing Mistry’s petition against Tata Sons on 13 February
Supreme Court names new administrators for BCCI
30 Jan 2017
Diana Edulji, a former Indian women's cricket skipper, is the only one representing players in the committee
Chandrasekaran appointed Tata Motors chairman as Mistry challenges his role
18 Jan 2017
The appointment comes five days after Tata Sons announced Chandrasekaran as its executive chairman
N Chandrasekaran appointed chairman of Tata Sons
12 Jan 2017
Chandrasekaran was selected from a list of high-profile names that included the head of PepsiCo Inc Indra Nooyi, the former head of Vodafone Group Arun Sarin and chairman of the Tata retail unit Trent Noel Tata
Marissa Mayer, others to quit Yahoo after it becomes ‘Altaba’
10 Jan 2017
Yahoo chief executive officer Marissa Mayer, co-founder David Filo and others plan to resign from the company's board when it completes its $4.8 billion sale to Verizon
Yet another rejig at Flipkart: Krishnamurthy made CEO
10 Jan 2017
Tiger Global, the largest investor in homegrown online market place Flipkart, has taken operational control of the company from founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, with the investor’s nominee Kalyan Krishnamurthy taking over as the new CEO
Former Deutsche Bank top exec Anshu Jain joins Cantor
03 Jan 2017
Jain will be doing something different from his Deutsche Bank job, helping the Wall Street underdog that lost 658 or two-thirds of its employees in the September 2001 terrorist attacks, expand in Europe and into Asia
Study finds boardroom bias against women
31 Dec 2016
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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