Management - general
Improve information security by giving your employees more options
27 Mar 2018
Computer users at home and at work often engage in behaviours that create security risks and privacy threats, despite having a variety of security options available
Vodafone COO Balesh Sharma to head merged Idea-Vodafone
23 Mar 2018
While Kumar Mangalam Birla will be the executive chairman after the merger of Vodafone and Idea, Vodafone India chief operating officer Balesh Sharma will be the CEO of the new entity
Median Berkshire employee salary over half of Buffett's pay
17 Mar 2018
In an era of large income disparities between CEOs and their staff, Berkshire Hathway chairman Warren Buffet earns barely 1.87 times the average salary of his employees
UK, Netherlands lobby for Unilever HQ
22 Feb 2018
Ford’s America president Raj Nair quits, reasons under shroud
22 Feb 2018
Raj Nair joined Ford in 1987 and rose through the automaker's manufacturing and engineering ranks to become head of global product development in 2015
Ethical leadership is a good thing, right?
21 Feb 2018
Research consistently shows ethical leadership is very beneficial. But new research shows that there are boundaries to those benefits,says Matthew Quade, Ph.D., assistant professor of management in Baylor's Hankamer School of Business / Baylor Marketing & Communication
Billionaire Peter Thiel leads minor exodus from Silicon Valley
19 Feb 2018
Conservative Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel and others have expressed dissatisfaction with the cultural conformity and groupthink of the US tech hub, but those moving out are still relatively few in number
Vinod Tahiliani appointed CEO of BP-RIL venture India Gas Solutions
06 Feb 2018
Vinod Tahiliani joins the British Petroleum - Reliance Industries venture from BP, where he was vice president, strategy and commercial for BP India
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathway lifts Gregory Abel and Ajit Jain to the board
11 Jan 2018
While Buffett has long said Ajit Jain has probably made more money for Berkshire than he has, many investors and analysts view Gregory Abel as the favourite to become CEO, citing his age and experience in acquisitions and operations
Simplification, synergy, scale: Chandra spells it out for Tata staff
27 Dec 2017
Tata Sons Ltd chairman N Chandrasekaran has asked employees of the group to focus on simplification, synergy and scale in order to take advantage of global expansion
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
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