Over the past five years, the clamour about electric vehicles (EVs) becoming a feasible transport option has become loud. "It has all come together", is the refrain. ...
11:41 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Saat Rasta, known earlier as the Jacob Circle, is the vortex that joins five different areas of Mumbai. On that junction lies New Shirin Talkies, a non-descript theatre. Normally, the traffic on Saat Rasta roundabout is messy, but a week before Eid in 2010, at least three roads leading up to it were completely blocked. ...
12:59 PM, Feb 07, 2013
You cannot strip down versions of European products and introduce them in India, VK Viswanathan, Managing Director of Bosch India, tells Forbes India. ...
12:28 PM, Jan 16, 2013
In 1936, Charlie Chaplin released his movie 'Modern Times'. The film starts with the shot of a herd of jostling pigs followed by a frame that captures a swarm of workers entering a steel factory. It makes a telling statement on the similarity in the behaviour of animals and humans. The movie then goes on to tell the story of Chaplin, whose job as a factory worker involves tightening nuts...
12:54 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Ramesh C Jain Age: 65 Designation: Chairman, Industrial relations task force, CII and Former group vice chairman of Eicher Career: Mr. Jain is the former group vice chairman of Eicher and throughout his career he has held several top positions in CII's industrial relations committees. Currently, he is working as an independent consultant and serves as director on boards of several companies like Hi-Tech Gears, Minda SAI and Graziano among...
12:21 PM, Aug 06, 2012
On January 1, 1959, the government of Fulgencio Batista fell and Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba. Rumours started doing the rounds that all children would be taken against their parents wishes and sent to military schools or to Soviet labour camps. Americas Central Intelligence Agency launched Operation Pedro Pan. From December 1960 to October 1962, more than 14,000 Cuban children arrived alone in the United States and were relocated...
10:51 AM, Jun 27, 2012
The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) had the right intentions. As incandescent bulbs use too much energy, it decided to replace them with compact fluorescent lamps (CFL). CFLs consume only a fifth of the energy used by the tungsten worms. Kerala had already shown the way by saving 300 MW of power in two years after replacing incandescent bulbs in households with 20 million CFLs. "So much so that there...
12:01 PM, Mar 14, 2012
As they say, looks can often be misleading. At first glance, the Engineering and Research Centre (ERC) inside the Tata Motors' factory in Pimpri doesn't seem to be the kind of place where great ideas are born. The paint on the walls is a dull shade of blue and white, the same colour as the uniform that employees sport, there are helmets strewn all over the place, the window panes...
11:55 AM, Feb 29, 2012
A former director of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, professor MS Ananth, recollects a dinner table conversation with an Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer. The IAS officer firmly believed that the IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) could easily be replaced by any other exam in India. Like what, asked Ananth? Perhaps, the UPSC examination, argued the officer. It is fair, tough and can pick the best minds in...
11:32 AM, Feb 23, 2012
You know, there is no easy way to say this, says Gaurav Jain, the 39-year-old managing director of Swastik Roadlines and explains. His father had started Swastik in partnership with two friends. Jain joined the company in 1999 when it was doing very well. It had 23 trucks. None of the founders realised what was around the corner. Ever since its inception in 1997, the company had grown on the...
05:50 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Outgoing CEO of M&M's automotive division Rajesh Jejurikar tells Forbes India why he is excited about moving to Zee Entertainment. Rajesh Jejurikar Age: 47 Designation: CEO, Automotive Division at Mahindra & Mahindra Education: MMS in marketing, SP Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai Career: Joined M&M in 2000 and played a crucial role in branding and manufacturing strategy Interests: Teaching, reading and fitness Q. You are moving to Zee Entertainment. It...
01:20 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Joseph Campbell, in his The Hero with a Thousand Faces, explained the making of a hero. The hero starts out ordinary; gets a call to adventure; undergoes severe tests and on survival gets a great boon. After this, he returns to an ordinary life and uses that boon to improve the world. In the past 40 years, the world of business would have produced a handful of leaders who can...
10:58 AM, Dec 09, 2011
In early 2009, Ramesh Kymal got a phone call that changed his life. Kymal was then the managing director of the Indian subsidiary of Vestas, the biggest wind turbine maker in the world. For the past five years, Kymal had tried and failed to convince his bosses in Denmark that he needed new investments in India. Eventually, he gave up and decided to move on. Yet, after six long months...
12:35 PM, Sep 17, 2011
Pawan Goenka, 56 Profile: President, automotive sector, Mahindra & Mahindra Experience: A former General Motors executive Key Challenge: Building in-house research and development capability, taking the company's products to global markets Strategy: Giving direction to existing businesses and identifying new avenues of growth In my current role, I am not responsible for the day-to-day operations of any of the businesses that form Automotive and Farm Equipment Sectors [AFES] of the...
12:33 PM, Aug 05, 2011
On the night of June 21, around 10 pm, the police of West Bengals Hooghly district descended on Tata Motors half-built Singur plant and threw out the private guards there. In about half an hour, the new government in West Bengal, under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee, took over the 997 acres that had proved to be the Waterloo of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and its allies. Earlier,...
11:32 AM, Jul 20, 2011
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