BUSINESS
Dish TV's belligerence is a sad commentary on the power of the regulator
As the results of the voting now show, shareholders had rejected all three resolutions placed before them on December 30, 2021. Continuing with business as usual was a clear travesty of the rules of corporate governance. Yet for months, Sebi could do little to enforce those rules
TRENDS
Don’t blame Indian students for the failings of successive governments
The war in Eastern Ukraine has been on since 2014. If despite this Indian parents chose to send their children to study in that country, there must be a real desperation.
BUSINESS
Founder’s curse: The fatal flaw that has undone many an entrepreneurial journey
The stronger and charismatic the founder, the weaker the organisation in its second generation, says a new research paper. Indian business is replete with examples of strongman founders destroying the organisations they’ve built
BUSINESS
Ilker Ayci’s Air India refusal | Tatas have a problem with expat CEOs
The Tata Group has a thing for foreign CEOs. However, Marc Llistosella and Ilker Ayci’s decision reversals show that such hirings haven’t always been smooth for the salt-to-software conglomerate.
TRENDS
Parsis in India: Why we need more books on Parsi businesses, culture and memories
Given their dwindling population, it is important that as many of the memories that are still available with the older generation, are captured and retained for the future.
BUSINESS
Is HUL slowing on breakthrough products?
With growing fragmentation and emerging retail chains, HUL needs to stir a magical brew for heady growth
TRENDS
Bloodless heists in the time of crypto, SWIFT
The robbery of 1.2 lakh bitcoins - now worth $4.5 billion - from Bitfinex in 2016 is an excellent example.
BUSINESS
Latest revelations cast a shadow over NSE’s listing plans
A more thorough enquiry by an investigative agency like the CBI is called for
TRENDS
The cellphone is the car of today, and Apple is in its driving seat
The cellphone has a small or big role in almost everything we do, much as the automobile did in the US of the 20th century when it shaped American society.
BUSINESS
Tribute: Rahul Bajaj was a titan whose success transcended business
In everything he did, Rahul Bajaj enriched the idea of India as an industrial powerhouse that could match the best in the world.
BUSINESS
N Chandrasekaran's reappointment should be a big relief for Tata
As chairman, N Chandrasekaran hasn't sought to rebuild the group based on some grand masterplan. Instead he took the much more difficult path of mining its several companies for their various strengths across businesses while exploring the synergies between them
BUSINESS
Let’s not pretend to be shocked by the disclosures at BharatPe
For all the dissing Bharat Pe has received over the last few weeks, we have yet to hear a murmur of disapproval from its major investors which include heavyweights like Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital and Tiger Global
TRENDS
Corporate fraud and other white collar crimes aren’t from Mars
Is there something different about the mind of the potential white collar criminal? No, the business school they went to and the big-name companies they worked for are not good indicators of honesty.
BUSINESS
Netflix discovers the importance of the second P of marketing in India
While price alone isn’t the determinant of sales, it plays a critical role in a buying decision by an Indian customer
CRICKET
Indian team’s loss to South Africa is just part of the natural ebb and flow of sports
Indian cricket has had a good run over the last 10 years. The current slump is just the natural ebb of that tide.
BUSINESS
The war for IT talent is hurting non-IT companies even more
Four fifths of graduates churned out by India’s engineering colleges don’t have the skill sets that equip them for jobs in emerging technologies like AI and machine learning
TRENDS
KBC vs Shark Tank India: Is public insult our newest form of social interaction?
'Shark Tank India' embodies the spirit of public insult perfectly. A set of men and women proceed to take apart wannabe entrepreneurs, subjecting them to slights and slurs.
BUSINESS
Game on for Microsoft as it acquires Activision Blizzard in mega deal
Activision fits into the recurring revenue model comprising software and platform subscriptions that Microsoft has been increasingly moving to
TRENDS
The mainstreaming of cuss words
Common in interactions between fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, sisters and brothers and friends and foes, expletives have been mainstreamed and given the status of gentle ribbing.
BUSINESS
Indian IT firms are in a global sweet spot again
Mckinsey estimates that the Indian IT industry could grow 10 percent a year over the next five years, to reach $300-350 billion in revenues. That’s substantially up from the average 7.5 percent growth registered over the last five years
TRENDS
Covid-19 | Is there a logic for vaccine hesitancy?
The drunk motorist endangers himself and his family or friends riding with him. The unvaccinated person carries the virus to dozens of others.
BUSINESS
Don’t expect LIC to turn world class after going public
LIC’s creeping disinvestment may serve little purpose in the long run, besides meeting the government’s disinvestment target
BUSINESS
Conviction of Elizabeth Holmes is an indictment of a startup culture that rewards deceit
The debasement of Elizabeth Holmes may seem distant and irrelevant to us in India. Instead it should prod us into examining the cultural moorings of our booming startup ecosystem
TRENDS
Thierry Delaporte, Deepinder Goyal, Falguni Nayar: Who was India’s best business leader in 2021?
In 2021, the best companies exhibited the ability to innovate and soldier on in the midst of a crisis. In all cases, these were companies whose leaders showed the way.
