Management - general
A Katha for corporations from a master story teller
17 Oct 2015
Award-winning author and columnist, Shoba Narayan, who has authored Return to India and Monsoon Diary talks to Swetha Amit about the power of storytelling in business and management, which is the theme of her latest book, Katha: Tell a Story, Sell a Dream
Nike targets revenue of $50 bn by 2020
15 Oct 2015
Nike, the world's largest sports apparel brand, which reported a revenue of $30 billion, yesterday set a target of $50 billion in revenue by 2020
Sharad Mehrotra to head Telenor India
13 Oct 2015
LafargeHolcim hires Ron Wiradhadiraksa as chief financial officer
12 Oct 2015
LafargeHolcim today replaced chief financial officer, Thomas Aebischer with Ron Wiradhadiraksa from Philips
Porche’s Mueller to replace Winterkorn at Volkswagen
25 Sep 2015
Matthias Mueller, CEO of Volkswagen's Porsche sports car division, has been widely tipped to succeed Martin Winterkorn, who quit on Wednesday over the company's emissions-cheating scandal
Two SpiceJet directors resign
24 Sep 2015
US clears Infosys of H-1B visa wrongdoing
09 Sep 2015
The US Labor Department has cleared Infosys Ltd of any wrongdoing and closed its investigation after American technology workers at Southern California Edison complained their jobs were wrongfully outsourced to foreigners working on H-1B visas
Volkswagen’s finance chief, Hans Dieter Poetsch to become next chairman
04 Sep 2015
The name of 64-year-old Hans Dieter Poetsch will be proposed for election to Vplkswagen's supervisory board at an extraordinary general meeting in November
Reaping the rewards of failure
03 Sep 2015
A brain-scan study shows failure is a rewarding experience when the brain has a chance to assess its options and mistakes
Seattle CEO who took 90% pay cut to boost staff salaries faces hard times
03 Aug 2015
Seattle CEO Dan Price, who cut his own salary by 90 per cent to boost the minimum salary of his workers to $70,000, says he is nearly broke and had been forced to rent out his house
Toshiba's president Hisao Tanaka, two others resign over accounting scandal
21 Jul 2015
Toshiba's top executives set unrealistic profit targets that systematically led to accounting irregularities, which were “skillfully” hidden from outside observers
Gaming In The Workplace: Mixing Work and Play Can Motivate Employees
30 Jun 2015
Monica Rozenfeld, associate editor for the publication of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers highlights the importance of gamification at workplace
Government to make hiring and firing of workers easier for business
26 Jun 2015
Finance minister Arun Jaitley, while addressing foreign business interests in the US, promised a globally compatible business climate in India with reforms in land, labour and taxes
Decision engineering helps make better choices
24 Jun 2015
Decision engineering, which also goes by the name decision intelligence, helps design decisions as if they were tangible projects, such as building robots or computer systems, using the same engineering methodologies and techniques, writes Monica Rozenfeld, associate editor for the publication of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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