These days, any conversation on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) tends to evoke a very strong response. That's because there is a large section of business leaders who believe that the government's move to force companies of a certain size to spend at least 2 per cent of their profits on CSR is completely out of line. ...
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04:44 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Some of you might remember the cover image of the badly bruised face of a man staring at you from the Forbes India Investment Guide 2012, around exactly the same time last year. It wasn't a pretty sight, signalling the onset of a brutal year for investors. It did turn out to be a rough ride, at least for the first half of the year. The economy slowed down, the...
12:41 PM, Jan 16, 2013
In the last edition, I had raised the issue of how we, as a nation, need to nurture many more first-generation entrepreneurs. There is an absolute dearth of such role models in India. Which is why Flipkart, founded by two friends from IIT-D " Sachin and Binny Bansal " is the poster-boy of India's internet economy. With the exception of makemytrip.com, there aren't too many new entrepreneurial ventures in the...
04:51 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Kishore Biyani can sometimes get overly aggressive in betting on the future. He's also prone to occasional flights of fancy"and to top it all, often fails to pass the test on execution. But in my book, he has one trait that perhaps overrides all his other flaws: He is an original thinker. Or else, he wouldn't have succeeded in creating a $2.5 billion enterprise from scratch in about 15 years....
11:06 AM, Jun 11, 2012
Be careful. Very careful. "Bad management theories are destroying good management practices". That is what Sumantra Ghoshal, one of the most respected voices in the world on what management ought to be like, argued in a path breaking paper by the same name. It was published shortly after he died in 2004 and continues to hold resonance even today. It was written when a wave of devastating corporate scandals had...
01:46 PM, May 12, 2012
If you're on any of India's national highways, the sight of an overloaded truck travelling at a sedate pace is pretty common. Truckers seldom cover more than 300 km a day, compared to more than 1,000 km a day in the West, at speeds no more than 25 km an hour. Even today, a truck travelling from Delhi to Kolkata " a distance of about 1,500 km " has to...
08:52 AM, Mar 31, 2012
I wasn't the science teacher's pet in school. And I can't confess I know too many scientists either. Yet, over time, I've come to appreciate the role of science in our society. And I have often wondered why India produces so many brilliant minds in the world of science"each of whom leave their impact on our world, but choose to work out of laboratories many thousands of miles away. I...
11:00 AM, Feb 18, 2012
No one is switching off lights at 6 pm or slashing salaries and headcount by a quarter and cutting back on travel budgets. Actually, there are very few Indian firms exhibiting those typical knee-jerk reactions that one associates with tough times. Instead, when our team began interviewing CEOs of some of India's best run companies to gauge how they'd plan their strategy to tide over this year of uncertainty, we...
11:39 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Last year, when we released our Independence Day Special edition, India was in a different state of mind. In keeping with our growing global aspirations, our special edition, brought out in collaboration with ICRIER, the leading New Delhi-based think tank, focussed on India and its expanding relationship with the rest of the world on a host of strategic issues like energy, water, access to markets and technology, international terrorism and...
09:39 AM, Aug 13, 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
New Delhi: There are perhaps just a couple of projects that have changed the dowdy image of Indias infrastructure in the past 10 years. For the most part, the Indian infrastructure story has almost been saddled with a continuing narrative: Crumbling roads, creaking bridges, dirty airports, polluted water and unreliable power. The $ 13 billion Golden Quadrilateral project " linking Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata through nearly 6,000 km of...
03:12 PM, Jun 06, 2011
This annual edition that you hold in your hands " referred to as the Billionaires Edition " is always worth waiting for. Over the years, it has emerged as the authoritative signpost of the wealth created by the biggest entrepreneurs around the world. As chief product officer Lewis DVorkin says, Forbes is about success, free enterprise, the entrepreneurial spirit and the rewards of hard work. "This special edition uniquely combines...
11:48 AM, Mar 26, 2011
Y C Deveshwar is determined to give ITC a life beyond tobacco and make it an FMCG giant. ...
02:51 PM, Jun 29, 2010
Carlos Ghosn shares learnings from his Indian sojourn. ...
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