India Inc. Staff2018-05-18T13:04:05+00:00February 15th, 2017|2017/2018, Emerging Markets, February 2017, Year|
The technology underpinning the digital currency Bitcoin has created a sensation around the world. Here an expert in the field delves into what blockchain really means for Indian companies with a global outlook.
India Inc. Staff2018-09-04T13:00:36+00:00February 10th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, Putting it in context, Year|
Donald Trump and his fellow travellers in Europe are doing their countries a disservice by recklessly pulling up the drawbridge on immigration, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. Everyone knows that whenever their fortresses and castles came under siege, kings of old would pass the order to pull up the drawbridges and every able man would take up position to repel the invaders. And most of you will be familiar with the story of Don Quixote, the fictional medieval Spanish [...]
India Inc. Staff2018-08-06T13:40:35+00:00February 10th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, Last Word, Year|
Outbound FDI from India will increasingly be driven by a need to fill knowledge and product gaps aimed at the domestic market. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has greased the wheels of the investment cycle with allocations of almost $90 billion for building roads, railway infrastructure, inland waterways, ports, airports and rural infrastructure for 2017-18. This massive public spending spree, marking a humungous increase over the figures for the current year, is expected to translate into large contracts for Indian and [...]
India Inc. Staff2018-05-18T13:04:09+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, More from this Edition, Year|
Many companies establish a professional board of directors comprising “stars”, but sometimes even star teams with sophisticated individuals may take bad decisions, writes a corporate governance expert. From among many factors that could be responsible for such decisions, two stand out: availability of information and a board agenda. Good decisions can follow if appropriate and adequate information is shared. To make a high quality “informed” decision, the board should get as much information about an issue as possible. What happens [...]
India Inc. Staff2020-03-16T09:25:06+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, The Americas, Year|
Just days after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th US President, there is much upheaval around his series of unilateral executive orders. There is yet another draft reportedly awaiting his signature, which could hit Indian professionals hard. American billionaire Donald J. Trump marked his first days in the Oval Office in characteristic style by signing some of the most controversial executive orders in history. The suspension of the US refugee programme for 120 days and a cap on [...]
India Inc. Staff2018-05-18T13:04:09+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, UK/EUROPE, Year|
A new report released the UK’s Free Enterprise Group makes the case for Britain to prioritise free trade agreements (FTAs) with key Commonwealth nations like India following Brexit. ‘India Global Business’ explores the rationale behind this strategy.
‘Reconnecting with the Commonwealth: The UK’s free trade opportunities’, released by the British MPs led Free Enterprise Group, suggests a five-step plan for the UK government as it gets ready to leave the European Union (EU).
India Inc. Staff2018-06-12T12:55:24+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, India & China, Year|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has struck a delicate balance of engaging with China where there is mutual benefit and standing up to the South Asian neighbour where India’s strategic interests demand. Dealing with China is arguably Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most daunting foreign policy challenge. That’s because it is difficult to fit the Middle Kingdom into any of the comfortable stereotypes that Indian diplomats have got used to. The first problem is one of definition. How does one categorise China? [...]
India Inc. Staff2018-05-18T13:04:09+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, More from this Edition, Year|
Our yoga expert offers some simple tips to make yoga a part of your daily working lives in this ‘India Global Business’ exclusive.
Exercise at the work place is an interesting subject because obviously one should be working when at the desk as opposed to doing lunges, hanging off the desk performing tricep exercises, stretching, bending and conducting all manner of cubical calisthenics. It’s just not very normal, is it?
India Inc. Staff2020-03-12T14:51:02+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, Go Global, Year|
India Inc. has envisioned its first-ever Go Global Expo & Conference 2017 as a hub for Indian companies on a decisive global expansion march as well as new start-ups ready for the leap. Here ‘India Global Business’ delves into the high-profile launch of the event in New Delhi.
There was a time barely two centuries ago, when India accounted for 21 per cent of global trade and Great Britain barely 1 per cent. At the height of the British Empire, this relative ratio had been turned on its head, with the United Kingdom as the most dominant trading nation in the world with more than a one-fifth share of world trade and India reduced to a peripheral player with only a 1 per cent share.
India Inc. Staff2018-08-06T13:40:26+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, Emerging Markets, February 2017, Year|
Parag Saxena is the CEO of New Silk Route Partners, one of India’s largest Private Equity (PE) funds with a primary focus on India and the Southeast Asia markets. He tells ‘India Global Business’ about the company’s journey since inception in 2006 to becoming a leading Asia-focused growth capital firm with $1.4 billion under management. How is New Silk Route contributing to the Indian growth story? New Silk Route was formed with the belief that as India’s GDP per capita [...]
