Management - general
Fairy tales for the corporate world
04 Jul 2014
Tulika Tripathi, managing director, Asian operations, Hudson Global Inc, talks to Swetha Amit about her new book, Alice in Corporate Land, which draws career growth lessons from the popular fairy tale Alice in Wonderland and how to be successful in corporate life.
Tata Motors shareholders reject pay package for late Carl Slym
04 Jul 2014
The new Companies Law introduced last year requires listed companies that make low profits or no profit at all to limit the salary of their executives
Infosys to pay its new CEO Vishal Sikka Rs30 cr a year
03 Jul 2014
The former SAP executive is also entitled to an annual stock option equal to $2 million
Google remains best company to work for in India for fifth year: Survey
01 Jul 2014
Google is followed by Intel, which remains in second place for the second year and Marriot Hotels in the third place
Taking a chance with better bankruptcy protection
24 Jun 2014
New research finds increased personal bankruptcy protection pre-2005 led to increase in household debt, but without measurable increase in average defaults. By MIT's Felipe Severino, from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Starbucks to pay tuition for employees to graduate
17 Jun 2014
Apart from paying ts employees to graduate, Starbucks does not force them to commit to stay with the company after they graduate
Murthy steps down as Infosys chairman for a second time
14 Jun 2014
NR Narayana Murthy today stepped down as executive chairman of Infosys Ltd, for a second time, a year after he returned to revive the sagging fortunes of the iconic company he co-founded in 1981
Pitch it: parallels between cricket and the corporate
11 Jun 2014
IT professional and author Dev Prasad has held senior management positions at various American and European multinational firms and worked as a part time freelance copywriter for advertising agencies talks to Swetha Amit about his new book, Pitch It! drawing analogies between cricket and the corporate world
Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel to step down over December data breach
06 May 2014
The chief executive of US retail chain Target has become the first boss of a major corporation to lose his job because of data theft
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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.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
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
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