Management - general
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
Cyrus Mistry voted out as TCS director with support from 93% shareholders
14 Dec 2016
93 per cent shareholders of TCS voted to oust former chairman Cyrus Mistry as a director,
Start-ups: don’t slip on the compliance banana peel!
01 Dec 2016
Start-ups tend to focus on product quality, marketing, and sales, leaving compliance with state and central regulations on the back burner – but this is a recipe for disaster, says Gaurav Jain, company secretary and founder of Lexcomply.com
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