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Who will decide CEO salaries? ; The shareholders, of course. The government can help by enforcing greater disclosure on the part of companies and higher literacy among shareholders. It must not dictate the salary, though.
Until recently, Union Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid made no bones about the fact that he wanted to end the practice of listed...
Business Today, 11/01/09 by K.R. Balasubramanyam · More from publication -
Mobile Tariff Wars ; Tata DoCoMo's aggressive pricing has rocked the market. And the regulator adds to the fear factor.
Tata Teleservices Ltd. (TTSL) knew it had to be different with a capital D if it was to stand out from the crowd of mobile operators with their...
Business Today, 11/01/09 by Kushan Mitra; K.R. Balasubramanyam · More from publication -
Rebooting education, Infosys style ; While everyone may be talking about the mammoth size of Infosys' new Global Education Centre in Mysore, what's truly remarkable is: how Infy is using this centre to train and prepare several thousand graduates each yea
While everyone may be talking about the mammoth size of Infosys' new Global Education Centre in Mysore, what's truly remarkable is: how Infy is...
Business Today, 10/18/09 by K.R. Balasubramanyam · More from publication -
Reva recharged ; Imagine an electric car that can be recharged instantly by calling or SMSing a 24/7 call centre!
Imagine an electric car that can be recharged instantly by calling or SMSing a 24/7 call centre! REVA, the Bangalore-based Indian car maker whose...
Business Today, 10/18/09 by K.R. Balasubramanyam · More from publication -
Ideas for real austerity ; The government and the Congress party's recent "austerity drive has created much debate. BT looks at a few practical steps that the government can adopt to actually save money.
First, the UPA regime had to launch India's biggest-ever stimulus package backed by government spending to boost the economy. Then came the...
Business Today, 10/18/09 by K.R. Balasubramanyam · More from publication -
Thanks, but no thanks ; The country's largest private sector company, RIL, moves heaven and earth to sell KG basin gas to the country's largest power producer, but in vain.
All's fair in love and war. That seems to be the motto on both sides in the stand-off between public sector power giant NTPC Ltd and Mukesh...
Business Today, 10/04/09 by K.R. Balasubramanyam · More from publication -
Stepping up despite regulation ; Investors work around regulatory controls to manage and take over private schools for long-term returns.
On the face of it private participation in schools, or K-12 in shorthand, would seem to be unrewarding as it is one sector of education where...
Business Today, 09/20/09 by K.R. Balasubramanyam · More from publication -
Paramount's leading edge ; M. Thiagarajan is a contrarian who is expanding his fleet and adding destinations as bigger rivals do the reverse. Has Paramount Airways' growth reached its limit?
Plug. And profit. That's what the young M. Thiagarajan decided to do when he expanded his childhood passion of flying into a scheduled airline. He...
Business Today, 08/23/09 by K.R. Balasubramanyam · More from publication -
Anil's spoilers ; A number of power companies have struggled over the last few years, broke and without fuel. Now, they're hoping that Anil Ambani loses his court case so they can survive the coming years.
While the Ambani brothers duke it out in the courts over the price of gas that Anil will have to pay Mukesh, a whole bunch of companies is sitting...
Business Today, 08/23/09 by K.R. Balasubramanyam · More from publication -
A market, afloat ; Kerala's cooperative body launches a super bazaar to reach customers in the backwaters. The floating Superstore has a computerised inventory management system linked with corporate and regional offices via the Internet, and it stocks up
Five hours. That's what it used to take Joseph Thomas Muttath, 56, and his wife Valsamma, 49, to visit the nearest town, Changanachery, shop and...
Business Today, 08/09/09 by K.R. Balasubramanyam · More from publication
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