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Cyrus Mistry voted out as TCS director with support from 93% shareholders
14 Dec 2016
93 per cent shareholders of TCS voted to oust former chairman Cyrus Mistry as a director,
Start-ups: don’t slip on the compliance banana peel!
01 Dec 2016
Start-ups tend to focus on product quality, marketing, and sales, leaving compliance with state and central regulations on the back burner – but this is a recipe for disaster, says Gaurav Jain, company secretary and founder of Lexcomply.com
Ex-Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly joins Times Global Partners as CEO
16 Nov 2016
Rishi Jaitly, an alumnus of Princeton University, will be responsible for managing various strategic partnerships of Times Internet, including Uber, Airbnb, Coursera, Vice, Huffington Post, apart from Willow TV
New management team announced at Tata Sons
04 Nov 2016
After Jaitly, Twitter's India MD Parminder Singh quits
03 Nov 2016
Hard on the heels of Twitter's India head Rishi Jaitly, on Monday, Parminder Singh, the micro-blogging site's managing director for India, South East Asia, Middle East, and North Africa, also quit
Twitter India chief Rishi Jaitly quits, more heads may roll
02 Nov 2016
Jaitly, who helped popularise Twitter in India, would seem to be a casualty of the micro-blogging site’s global restructuring programme, as the company has failed to get new users and fallen behind Facebook, Google and Snapchat
Worked to death? Lack of control over high-stress jobs leads to early grave
17 Oct 2016
Research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business finds that those in high-stress jobs with little control over their workflow die younger or are less healthy than those who have more flexibility and discretion in their jobs and are able to set their own goals as part of their employment
Ericsson to cut 3,000 jobs in Sweden
04 Oct 2016
Exiting a business is last resort for Tata Group, says Cyrus Mistry
03 Oct 2016
Tata Group does not look at “short-term financial gains” to decide whether to continue or exit a certain business and it evaluates all options before opting out of a business, chairman Cyrus Mistry has said
Wells Fargo chief forfeits $41-mn equity, bonus, over fake accounts scandal
29 Sep 2016
Apart from forfeiting his bonus and unvested equity, Wells Fargo chairman and CEO John Stumpf will not take his salary during an independent board investigation over the bank's fake-accounts scandal
Emma Walmsley named Glaxo's first woman CEO
20 Sep 2016
Emma Walmsley has been named the new chief executive officer of British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, succeeding Sir Andrew Witty and becoming the newest female boss in the FTSE 100
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