CATEGORIES

Kamath's Guitar Strings

Nikhil Kamath, Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer, True Beacon and Zerodha, has always been surrounded by music. In fact, music runs in Kamath’s blood. “My mother is a Carnatic music teacher. She plays Veena. Just by the sheer proximity to music since childhood, I have developed a keen interest in it.”

Betting On BoT

Worsening NHAI finances are forcing the government to go back to the build-operate-transfer model for road projects

Exiting The Easy Money Circle

The RBI Adopted multiple regulatory forbearance measures and ultra-loose monetary policy to counter economic headwinds. Now it has to work out an exit roadmap

A Rough Ride

Once the leader in SUVs, Mahindra has lost its crown. The company is resetting its gameplan to stay clear of me-too products, replacing them with vehicles intrinsic to its DNA. Can it rise again?

Signs Of Moderation

Retail ownership of top 500 stocks of BSE saw a sequential decline in december quarter. Is their interest waning?

IndiGo's Revival Bid

After a brutal year, India's largest airline looks to bounce back, but there could be surprises ahead

Taxman's Data War

As tech helps tax authorities check evasion and fraud, taxpayers complain of harassment and misuse of powers

“IF YOU HAVE THE BEST PRODUCT, YOU CAN FIND A WAY TO WIN ALL THE TIME”

John Bayne, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Consumer Electronics, Corning Incorporated

On The Slow Coach

Fifteen years in the making, only 650 km of the dedicated freight corridor has opened. Meeting the 3,381-km target by June 2022 appears a distant dream

OILY MESS

A sharp increase in global crude oil prices has pushed retail rates of petrol and diesel to historic highs. Taxes are partly to be blamed, but reducing excise duties may not be easy for a cash-strapped government

Keeping Guard

Private security and facility management industry has bounced back from pandemic pangs, and is prepping for the big leap

In Good Company

ManageMents are integrating their corporate Milestones with what is good for people and the planet too

Adding Spice To Leadership

Baskar Babu, Managing Director and CEO of Suryoday Small Finance Bank believes in the idea of Servant Leadership (where the goal of the leader is to serve). Over the years, he has figured out a very palatable way of demonstrating this to his staff — by cooking for them during CEO-connect meetings.

"UTILITIES NEED TO FIND NEW REVENUE STREAMS AND BUSINESS MODELS”

The Switzerland-headquartered Hitachi ABB Power Grids is a global technology player serving utility, industry and infrastructure companies in emerging areas such as sustainable mobility, smart cities, energy storage and data centres. The $10 billion company started operations in India in July 2020 after Hitachi's acquisition of ABB Ltd’s powergrid business in 2018. Global CEO of Hitachi ABB Power Grids, Claudio Facchin, and N. Venu, Managing Director, Hitachi ABB Power Grids India, talk to Rajeev Dubey and P.B. Jayakumar about technological changes in the power sector and how they are helping countries meet their zero carbon targets. Edited excerpts

Lead Essay: The New-Age Organisation

India Inc. has not just institutionalised working from anywhere, it is also revisiting hiring strategy, performance management and office space to become agile and nimble

Healthy Office Space

Companies are going beyond physical health and taking care of employees’ wellbeing

In Its Own League

From a relaxed leave allowance policy to numerous perks for working from home and a peer-to-peer mental health community, Google surely knows how to pamper Googlers

Future Ready Workforce

A mother app and digital townhalls are among the several steps ICICI Bank has taken to transform its work culture

Beating Covid-19 Blues

How Business Today-money today financial awards identified winners across mutual funds, insurance companies and pension funds

WIDENING DIVERSITY

As job description and roles across sectors transform based on digital goals of companies, diversity and inclusion have become more holistic

THE HUMANE TECH

Accenture decided to train every staffer in latest technology and deployed AI-based chatbot to guide employees

HOLDING TOGETHER

Scaling up of the Secure Borderless Work Space platform helped TCS shift its entire workforce to the WFH mode, without even a single day of delivery failure during the pandemic

DWARFING ADVERSITIES

An off-job learning series, including cookery and fitness classes; wellbeing sessions for employees; picking up additional expenses beyond medical insurance for the Covid-positive — it was employee-first for HDFC Bank

BEING CONNECTED

Microsoft has focused on communication and wellbeing to keep employee morale up

WE NEED TO REACH OUT TO MILLENNIALS GLOBALLY

Bata shoes are an integral part of almost every school-goer’s life in India. That is why most Indians believe that the brand — founded in what is now the Czech Republic in 1894 and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland — is local, despite operating in over 70 countries. The company, which does a ₹3,500 crore business in the country, recently appointed India CEO Sanjiv Kataria as its global head. Kataria, who had taken over as India head in 2017 and under whom Bata India’s profits rose 46 per cent, tells Ajita Shashidhar how India’s diverse footwear consumption habits have given him a unique understanding of customer needs across the globe. Edited excerpts:

The Infra Catalyst

FM bets big on infrastructure with focus on asset monetisation and sharp rise in allocations to highways and railways

Missing Credit

Bank credit growth shows signs of uptick, backed by retail and agri loans, but is expected to remain muted in FY21 due to asset quality pressures

THE GREAT RESET

The FM has set the stage, but timely execution is critical

If Executed Well, 8% Growth Is Possible

Economists, CEOs, consultants, sector specialists interpret Nirmala Sitharaman’s ‘Never-before’ Budget

Ease Of Compliance

Income-tax slabs unchanged, but small taxpayers will enjoy procedural relief in filing ITR and resolution of disputes; High-income earners may feel the pinch though