Management - general
Battle brewing for control of scam-tainted Olympus
08 Dec 2011
A battle for scam-tainted Japanese camera-maker Olympus Corp is brewing, with former CEO Michael Woodford demanding that a new board be appointed without the approval of the management
Olympus used offshore firms to cover up losses
07 Dec 2011
An inquiry panel has uncovered a network operated by mostly Japanese advisers who used offshore companies in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands to hide impaired financial securities and channel funds to conceal those losses
Probe panel indicts top Olympus executives in $1.7-bn accounting scam
06 Dec 2011
The committee was also critical of audit firms KPMG AZSA and Ernst & Young Shin Nihon, which had audited the company's books during the time of the scandal
SEBI fines former Satyam official Rs5 lakh
30 Nov 2011
Cyrus P Mistry to succeed Ratan Tata
23 Nov 2011
Cyrus P Mistry, managing director, Shapoorji Pallonji Group, has been nominated by the selection committee to take over from Ratan Tata on his retirement in December 2012
GM appoints Lowell Paddock to head India operations
16 Nov 2011
Paddock, will take over from Karl Slym, has held several important posts in product planning and program management in the US, Europe and Asia since joining General Motors in 1992
How smart managers make dumb decisions and why shareholders encourage them: Rotman paper
15 Nov 2011
Tokyo bourse puts Olympus on delisting watch
10 Nov 2011
Camera-maker Olympus admits to window-dressing books
08 Nov 2011
In a complete reversal of earlier denials, Japanese camera- and copier-maker Olympus Corp, today admitted that it had made a series of acquisitions and inflated payments to intermediares in the past to hide hefty losses.
Apple senior executives get stock options packages worth $60 million each
05 Nov 2011
Apple Inc yesterday awarded a host of senior executives lucrative stock-option grants, in a bid to retain its senior executives following the death of co-founder Steve Jobs.
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