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Fri, Nov 20, 2009
Reading Raju's mind
Not to be missed in the book are the personal details of the Rajus.
Wed, Nov 18, 2009
Simplifying a complex financial saga
Inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system and themselves.
Tue, Nov 17, 2009
Reasons for Vishal Retail's big fall
Today, the chairman of Vishal Retail is eagerly waiting his date with the Corporate Debt Restructuring cell of lenders in the third week of November.
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
Merc takes on the Audi. Who wins?
When you are in the market for a car costing around half a crore of rupees, you want to feel pampered and appreciated, and the Audi just can't muster that. Solving the spectrum scarcity
A common carrier policy, as in the petroleum sector, is worth looking at.
Fri, Nov 13, 2009
Columbia University gets $3.5 mn to study India's economy
'The Indian economy is at a crossroads,' says Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, a University Professor at Columbia University and senior adviser to the Institute. Asim Dasgupta: A contrarian communist?
He's the hero for forging consensus on GST, popular in the Left Front and among his students, but industrialists are less than enamoured.
Mon, Nov 9, 2009
Global recovery: Destination India?
This year, the India Economic Summit has more foreign companies attending than Indian ones.
Fri, Nov 6, 2009
A bleak future awaits India's retail chains
With govt still not keen on FDI, several organised retail chains will find it difficult to fund expansion.
Wed, Nov 4, 2009
Pranab's trump card
Going by available indications from North Block, Mr Mukherjee may like to do a Chidambaram when he presents the Revised Estimates on February 27, 2010
Tue, Nov 3, 2009
Public spending on healthcare should be raised
Big global pharmaceutical firms seeking to buy into prominent Indian generic players is, in fact, a vindication of the Indian pharmaceutical story which began with the decision by Indira Gandhi to rein in the cost of medicines and allow process and not product patents.
Mon, Nov 2, 2009
A good tool to predict a trend reversal
A bar reversal pattern is a good tool to predict when and where a trend will double back.
Fri, Oct 30, 2009
5 great business books to read
There are thousands of 'business' books adorning hundreds of bookstore shelves across the world, and new ones keep being written practically everyday. So given this problem of plenty, how do you select the best business books to read? Well, here's help....
Thu, Oct 29, 2009
Tips to pick the right workplace
Assess whether a company offers what you need to do at various career stages.
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
'Being an entrepreneur makes you a better person'
Go ahead and be an entrepreneur! Don't keep saying, I want to be an entrepreneur and one day, I will be one. There is no some day; just go out and chase your dreams, says Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan.
Wed, Oct 21, 2009
Divestment without a purpose
Only strategic sales can serve the purpose of disinvestment, by freeing PSUs from govt control.
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
New-age brain drain
The 'always on' multi-tasking approach to work reduces efficiency levels - a new study suggests ways around it.
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
Loan offers lend colour to the festive season
It is that time of the year when banks and finance companies lend color to the festive season by rolling out the red carpet for customers. Time for Anil Ambani to apply moral codes to himself
Whether it was the issue of the treasury stock (which came about when Reliance Industries Limited and Reliance Petroleum merged), or the dependent nature of so-called independent directors of RIL, or the opaque structuring of conflict-of-interest deals, Anil Ambani came out with guns blazing, accusing his older brother Mukesh of trying to diddle the shareholders of the company their father had built. Do Indian CEOs overpay themselves?
Eventually it boils down to whether Board compensation committees whose job is to fix salary levels have the power to question the CEO, especially owner-CEOs.
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
Where are we in the recovery?
An indication that consumer incomes are stabilising is visible in the demand for residential housing
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
Vavasi: A giant killer in India's telecom arena?
Not too much is known about the middle-aged Arifuddin who is Vavasi's major shareholder, except for the fact that he is a civil engineer from Karnataka and started the group around a decade ago.
Fri, Oct 9, 2009
Natarajan Chandrasekaran : A CEO with a difference
The newest CEO in the Tata group brings an aggressive pace and style to India's largest IT consultancy firm.
Thu, Oct 8, 2009
An IITian's open letter to the prime minister
'If the government cannot provide the best resources to IIT faculty, it has no right to expect the best research either,' says Santosh Ansumali. MapmyIndia: The successful business of digital maps
MapmyIndia has the first mover's advantage but with players like SatNav Technologies, Reliance ADA group and Google, the competition is hotting up.