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BMW India cries foul as senior official held for fraud
26 Jul 2014
During 2007 to 2009, the period of a lawsuit filed by a Hyderabad dealer in 2010 for non-renewal of an expired dealership in 2009, BMW India Financial Services' managing director Stefan Schlipf was employed by BMW Bank GmbH in Munich
HP CEO Meg Whitman appointed chairman
18 Jul 2014
Nikesh Arora leaves Google to join Japan’s SoftBank
18 Jul 2014
Google Inc's chief business officer and the company's main liaison with Wall Street, Nikesh Arora, is leaving to join Japanese telecom firm SoftBank, as vice chairman
Microsoft cutting 18,000 jobs worldwide to ease Nokia burden
17 Jul 2014
For Microsoft, the job-cuts are part of the efforts to transform itself into a cloud-computing and mobile-friendly software company
Fairy tales for the corporate world
04 Jul 2014
Tulika Tripathi, managing director, Asian operations, Hudson Global Inc, talks to Swetha Amit about her new book, Alice in Corporate Land, which draws career growth lessons from the popular fairy tale Alice in Wonderland and how to be successful in corporate life.
Tata Motors shareholders reject pay package for late Carl Slym
04 Jul 2014
The new Companies Law introduced last year requires listed companies that make low profits or no profit at all to limit the salary of their executives
Infosys to pay its new CEO Vishal Sikka Rs30 cr a year
03 Jul 2014
The former SAP executive is also entitled to an annual stock option equal to $2 million
Google remains best company to work for in India for fifth year: Survey
01 Jul 2014
Google is followed by Intel, which remains in second place for the second year and Marriot Hotels in the third place
Taking a chance with better bankruptcy protection
24 Jun 2014
New research finds increased personal bankruptcy protection pre-2005 led to increase in household debt, but without measurable increase in average defaults. By MIT's Felipe Severino, from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Starbucks to pay tuition for employees to graduate
17 Jun 2014
Apart from paying ts employees to graduate, Starbucks does not force them to commit to stay with the company after they graduate
Murthy steps down as Infosys chairman for a second time
14 Jun 2014
NR Narayana Murthy today stepped down as executive chairman of Infosys Ltd, for a second time, a year after he returned to revive the sagging fortunes of the iconic company he co-founded in 1981
Pitch it: parallels between cricket and the corporate
11 Jun 2014
IT professional and author Dev Prasad has held senior management positions at various American and European multinational firms and worked as a part time freelance copywriter for advertising agencies talks to Swetha Amit about his new book, Pitch It! drawing analogies between cricket and the corporate world
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