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V. G. Siddhartha's apparent suicide and the purported suicide note sent shock waves through India's business circles, especially in Bengaluru from where he operated. It also left a surfeit of unanswered questions about the exact amount of debt he w

In death, V.G. Siddhartha unfortunately attracted the kind of publicity he had sought to avoid throughout his life. The intensely private businessman, who had built one of the best known consumer retail brands in India, Cafe Coffee Day, had avoided d

Harkirat Singh, MD, Aero Club (owns footwear major Woodland), entered the family business in 1993/94, scaled up the brand to Rs 1,250 crore and ventured into new categories. Its sub brand Woods emerged as a disruptive lifestyle package with a standal

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das recently came down heavily on advanced economies for unilateral policies and the risk it poses for the world. Das advised emerging market economies to follow policies that promote macroeconomic and financial stability, wh

The Founder Sameer Aggarwal, an engineering graduate who did his MBA from IIT Kharagpur. Before launching RevFin, Aggarwal worked for HSBC in London. The Trigger After coming back to India in 2017, he was shocked to find how Delhi was engulfed in tox

On July 20, Argentina moved towards an effective default after failing to reach an agreement with vulture funds demanding full payment of their $1.3 billion dues. This is its second brush with a sovereign debt crisis since 2001/02 when it too had bee

In the third week of July, IndiGo reported its highest ever quarterly profit of Rs 1,203 crore, a staggering 4,230 per cent jump over the first quarter of last year. The strong performance came in the backdrop of the slowdown in the aviation sector a

Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, recently cancelled a trip to China as the Budget Session of the Lok Sabha got extended until August 7 instead of ending on July 26 as scheduled. Such cancellations happen all the time, but th

In April this year, Mehsana Dairy, the fourth biggest union of India's largest milk cooperative, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF, which owns brand Amul), announced that it would break away from the parent cooperative to register

There's a recurrent theme in ace investor Warren Buffett's communications to shareholders of his holding company Berkshire Hathaway a disdain for private equity (PE) firms. From accusing PE firms of charging unreasonable management fees to alleging

When Volkmar Denner, the Global CEO of Bosch, the world's largest automobile component manufacturer, visited India in June 2018, it was his first visit in four years. When he came again last month, it was his third visit in just over a year. This tim

People attending Microsoft Inspire in July this year must have wondered whether they were watching a 'Beam me up, Scottie' type of scene from Star Trek. It started when Julia White, Corporate Vice President of Azure Marketing, showed off what the Hol

Have your parathyroid glands gone into overdrive, secreting too much hormone? Or too little, for that matter? Our body has four such glands, located in the neck (right behind the larger thyroid gland), which control the calcium level in our body. Any

Plush and Peaceful Taj Hotels has added another feather in its cap with the launch of a new property on the banks of the River Ganges. The Taj Rishikesh Resort and Spa is around 30 km from Rishikesh and offers magnificent views of the river and the H

I had mixed feelings after going through Crash, penned by a prolific writer with vast industry exposure. Books on leadership come a dime a dozen and they usually fall in two categories. The pedantic ones, written by academicians (like me), belabour p

In simple terms, a strategy is an overarching plan to achieve a vision through a skilful interplay of ends, ways and means. Ends are the goals or objectives which must be realised to achieve the vision; means are the resources available to pursue the

Chittaranjan Sahoo, 34, had joined IT major Tech Mahindra as a software developer. But when he saw the demand for data science skills growing exponentially, he decided to upskill via RIDE, the company's learning and development platform. Sahoo pursue

Think of competitive examinations in India and the first thought that comes to mind is of students and parents seeking the right coaching courses. From Kota to Hyderabad and Delhi, Coaching Inc has spawned teaching hubs with factory style scale and t

All that goes up must come down, and vice versa. This is how governments, economies, companies and financial markets work. Be it stock, debt, credit or property market, the upswing and the downturn always follow each other nay, one event 'causes' t

All of us have boxfuls of old snapshots, videotapes and audio cassettes, remnants of an era gone by but still fondly cherished. Digitising them could be a great idea as it would keep the data secure and also ensure instant access and hassle free shar

Circa 2017. Chennai based Ranganath Kumar Sami was working as the principal research engineer for Modine Thermal Systems. He was a reputed technocrat and reporting to the CXOs. "But when I started climbing the leadership ladder, I felt I should have

How has management education changed over the years in the context of Asia, especially India? A. The demand for management education is amazingly stable. Even though there is a lot of churn happening with different kinds of formats, the same number o

Space scientist K. Kasturirangan points out that sky is the limit and there is enough room to drive growth in the Indian education sector. Anyone who has read the 400 page draft of the National Education Policy 2019 (NEP), authored by the nine member