Management - general
Tata Group aims at $500-bn revenue by 2021
02 Apr 2012
Tata Group has targeted revenues of Rs25.4 lakh crore by March 2021 as the conglomerate aims to increase sales five times over this period
Foreign investor challenges CIL, government over coal pricing
26 Mar 2012
The Children's Iinvestment Fund is now looking for litigation options against the government and has sought to enlist support of activists from India for its struggle
UK trust warns Coal India of legal action
13 Mar 2012
Birla group launches Rs250-cr R&D centre
05 Mar 2012
HSBC to issue new shares to pay bonuses
22 Feb 2012
The pay deal has received approval of the Financial Services Authority, which sees this as a way for banks to bolster their capital base even as they continued to pay staff bonuses
Olympus India MD found dead in Delhi
21 Feb 2012
The managing director of Japan’s scam-hit camera major Olympus has been found dead outside his luxury home in Gurgaon near New Delhi this morning
Former Olympus chairman, six others arrested in Japan
16 Feb 2012
Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, the former chairman, resigned late last year after Briton Michael Woodford, a former CEO, blew the whistle on the scam in the Japanese company
Google is the best place to work in US: Fortune
20 Jan 2012
Besides the generous perks, free food and recreation and sports facilities, the Google campus at Mountain View was also a "must visit" stop for Barack Obama and John McCain during their presidential runs
Olympus approaches five companies for equity tie-up
12 Jan 2012
Olympus has contacted Sony Corp, Panasonic Corp, Fujifilm Holdings, Terumo Corp and S Korea's Samsung Electronics, though it is unclear whether it plans to select a single or several partners
Yahoo picks PayPal chief as new CEO
05 Jan 2012
Scott Thompson, president of PayPal, a unit of eBay, will take over as the new chief executive of the internet giant, which is battling stiff competition from rivals such as Google and Facebook, amidst declining advertising revenues
Cutting through the clutter: PLM demystified
05 Jan 2012
A product life cycle management (PLM) system will ensure that a company’s products remain on the cutting edge from inception and design to marketing, says Sanjay Daga, executive vice president, operations, Designtech Systems Ltd
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