Management - general
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
Infosys ex-CFO Balakrishnan seeks sacking of some board members
09 Dec 2017
Former Infosys chief financial officer V Balakrishnan today sought the discontinuance of certain board members in light of the company filing a settlement plea with SEBI on corporate governance lapses relating to severance payment to its former chief financial officer Rajiv Bansal
New CEO Salil Parekh faces real test of staying calm at Infosys
04 Dec 2017
Salin Parekh becomes the second outsider after Vishal Sikka to take the top job at the 36-year-old Infosys, which employs over 2,00,000 professionals across the world
Bharti Mittal family pledges Rs7,000 cr to charity
23 Nov 2017
A major part of the wealth pledged for charity will go towards setting up of the proposed Satya Bharti University for Science and Technology, which will offer 'free education' to underprivileged youth
Meg Whitman to step down as chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
22 Nov 2017
Meg Whitman will step down as chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise six years after joining its corporate predecessor and implementing a turnaround that split the Silicon Valley corporate icon in two
Rio Tinto’s former CEO faces fraud charges in African coal mine deal
18 Oct 2017
US authorities have filed fraud charges against Rio Tinto and former executives Tom Albanese and Guy Elliot over the 2014 sale of the company’s African coal assets for $50 million, three years after its $3.7 billion acquisition
Heads-up, CEOs — corporate social responsibility may get you fired, study finds
18 Oct 2017
Investing in product safety, employee diversity and carbon footprint reduction are all examples of CSR that can result in high praise for a chief executive — or get them fired. New research shows that CSR investments can be a double-edged sword — do well and they'll buffer you from dismissal, do poorly and you're more likely lose your job