Management - general
Don’t reappoint Mallya, advisory firms urge USL shareholders
20 Sep 2014
Proxy advisory firm Institutional Investor Advisory Services has advised shareholders against the reappointment of chairman Vijay Mallya at United Spirits
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison steps aside, Safra Catz, Mark Hurd appointed co-CEOs
19 Sep 2014
Oracle said yesterday that its co-founder Larry Ellison would relinquish his role as chief executive and become the software giant’s executive chairman and chief technology officer
"Rules of the game was a tongue in cheek title": Dr Sumit Chowdhury
16 Sep 2014
Dr Sumit Chowdhury, president, Reliance JioInfocom, and author of the book Rules of the Game, and an avid marathon runner and a cyclist who has several runs and long distance cycling trips to his credit, a musician and an artist, talks to Swetha Amit about learning to manage ones career as a game
12 Indian firms in Forbes’ Asia-Pacific ‘best companies’ list
02 Sep 2014
HDFC Bank, India's second-largest private sector bank, has made it to the list eight times, more than any other company since Forbes started compiling the Asia-Pacific list in 2005
Lever, TCS top 5 Indian firms on Forbes ‘most innovative’ list
21 Aug 2014
Apart from Hindustan Unilever and TCS, L&T, Sun Pharma and Bajaj Auto rank among the world's 100 most innovative companies that investors think are most likely to "generate big, new growth ideas"
Abusive leadership infects entire team
21 Aug 2014
Top HSBC directors receive shares worth over £7 mn
14 Aug 2014
According to HSBC the shares formed part of a fixed remuneration package for the staff involved
Infosys does not need strategy overhaul: new CEO Sikka
31 Jul 2014
The former SAP executive said he would continue to build on Infosys' deep-rooted set of culture and values
Wipro sets up venture arm with Rishad Premji as head
28 Jul 2014
Wipro hopes to safegaurd itself from the threat of new innovative and disruptive technologies by financing their innovators
BMW India cries foul as senior official held for fraud
26 Jul 2014
During 2007 to 2009, the period of a lawsuit filed by a Hyderabad dealer in 2010 for non-renewal of an expired dealership in 2009, BMW India Financial Services' managing director Stefan Schlipf was employed by BMW Bank GmbH in Munich
HP CEO Meg Whitman appointed chairman
18 Jul 2014
Nikesh Arora leaves Google to join Japan’s SoftBank
18 Jul 2014
Google Inc's chief business officer and the company's main liaison with Wall Street, Nikesh Arora, is leaving to join Japanese telecom firm SoftBank, as vice chairman
Microsoft cutting 18,000 jobs worldwide to ease Nokia burden
17 Jul 2014
For Microsoft, the job-cuts are part of the efforts to transform itself into a cloud-computing and mobile-friendly software company
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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
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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
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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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