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SUTANU GURU ANALYSES HOW ACTIVISM IS EMERGING AS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES FOR CEOS IN THE 21ST CENTURY. HE ALSO ARGUES HOW ACTIVISM HAS OFTEN ENDED UP SAVING CAPITALISM
Power corrupts and aboslute power often corrodes common sense. No matter what your ideology, you will agree that this is one of the fundamental lessons – or maxims if you please — that has literally b....Read More




RELIANCE POWER : AN ACTIVISM PRIMER
THE RELIANCE POWER IPO THAT BECAME INDIA’S BIGGEST EVER IPO, SAW INVESTOR ACTIVISM INFLUENCE PROMOTER ANIL AMBANI TO DO SOMETHING INDIA RARELY WITNESSES – DILUTE HIS STAKE TO SUPPORT INVESTORS
On February 11, 2008, investors operating in the Indian stock market short-circuited Anil Ambani group company Reliance Power’s maiden appearance on the bourses. After accomplishing the country’s bigg....Read More




“GOVERNMENT SHOULD IDENTIFY SITES FIRST”
POSCO INDIA’S VIKASH SHARAN DISCUSSES AT LENGTH WITH VIRAT BAHRI OF B&E ABOUT THE PROBLEMS THAT PLAGUE GREENFIELD PROJECTS IN INDIA AND HOW POLICY MAKERS CAN PLAY A MAJOR ROLE
B&E: The kind of activism that POSCO is facing become much more prominent in India in re3cent times. Your views.
Vikash Sharan (VS): When you are talking in context of India, there are two....Read More






A TOUGH TERRAIN, EVERY INCH OF THE WAY
RELIANCE’S SEZ PLANS AT RAIGAD ARE YET TO RECEIVE SUPPORT FROM THE FARMERS THERE, WHO FEAR LOSING THEIR LAND AND LIVELIHOOD. APPRARENTLY, THERE IS A SERIOUS CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE
Land acquisition issues with companies are becoming typical David-Goliath battles. Ironically, size and strength work to Goliath’s disadvantage in these battles, since it greatly enhances the appeal o....Read More


THE FIRING THAT BACKFIRED!
JET AIRWAYS FIRED AND RE-HIRED THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYEES AFTER MUCH DRAMA IN LATE 2008. SO WAS THE INCIDENT A WAKE-UP CALL FOR THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED IN THE POWER OF EMPLOYEE ACTIVISM?
Many would take it as a minor hiccup today, but Oman Airways’ Neha Jalan is still trying to bury her hag-ridden experience on the night of October 13, 2008. Then an air hostess with Jet Airways (for o....Read More


IT WAS INDEED A ‘GOLDEN HANDSHAKE’
THE VRS LAUNCHED BY PSBS IN 2000 LEFT MANY EMPLOYEES DISGRUNTLED. THOUGH SBI’S EXERCISE TOO SUFFERED FROM THE SYNDROME, IT WAS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BETTER MANAGED ONES AMONG PSBS
As banking reform gathered pace in the mid ‘90s, it became more obvious that the public sector banks (PSBs) in India could no longer afford to be overstaffed. They needed to trim down if they wanted t....Read More




THE MIDDLE PATH APPROACH
IT’S NEITHER AN EXTREME OF ADVENTURISM NOR AN EXTREME OF CONSERVATISM, THE APPROACH THAT INDIA’S LARGEST PRIVATE SECTOR BANK, ICICI BANK, NOW SEEMS TO FOLLOW IS THE MIDDLE PATH
It was on May 1, 2009, when Chanda D. Kochhar took the reins of ICICI Bank from her mentor Kundapur Vaman Kamath who had transformed ICICI – a crumbling development financial institution – to India’s ....Read More


GLOBAL GIANTS, LOCAL PROBLEMS
POST THE PAST PR DISASTERS FOR COCA COLA & CADBURY – WHICH THEY ENDED UP MANAGING WELL – THE CURRENT TIMES CHURN UP NEWER ISSUES, THE WATER ISSUE AT PALAKKAD BEING ONE OF THEM FOR COKE
Financially Coca-Cola India Inc. had a good year for the year ended 2009-10, but the beginning of this fiscal year hasn’t met that description. And this time, it was not about the time-honoured pestic....Read More
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