All stories by Shyamal Majumdar
M&As can negatively impact workforce, is there a way out?
Rediff.com31 Jul 2015Mergers are not just about balance sheets or marketing synergies; they are also about those who make the synergies real.
The rise and 'fall' of a brilliant entrepreneur
Rediff.com3 Jul 2015Yadav may have forgotten that leadership of a larger scaled-up venture requires something more than individual brilliance, says Shyamal Majumdar.
The human side to the Maggi crisis
Rediff.com19 Jun 2015Being conservative is good, but not quite in a crisis.
The right to die with dignity
Rediff.com22 May 2015Best tribute to Aruna Shanbaug would be to take some legislative action on ending the mental trauma of those who can't live outside of a hospital again.
Why this Obama image was nothing but a good photo-op
Rediff.com30 Jan 2015US president was unaware that the son of a manual labourer had to abandon studies
Why Ratan Tata remains the king of India's corporate world
Rediff.com21 Jan 2015Ratan Tata was the first one to realise that Indian companies had become a prisoner to tradition and needed to radically innovate.
Does the Indian IT industry need trade unions?
Rediff.com16 Jan 2015Being leaders in compensation and benefits, collective bargaining for wages is a non-issue in the industry.
How Dhirubhai Ambani changed the style of doing business in India
Rediff.com14 Jan 2015During his lifetime and after, Ambani aroused extreme responses in others.
Why splitting banks' CMD post is a half-baked move
Rediff.com2 Jan 2015Many bankers say the move will have a serious impact on the chain of command of nationalised banks and that it would only enable the government to dish out favours to a few of their own men.
Why job prospects are grim today
Rediff.com5 Dec 2014The inability of the economy to create new jobs faster than jobs are lost to automation leads to unemployment.
Want to outsmart your boss? But, it may backfire
Rediff.com21 Nov 2014At the end, however, Allen finds too much of what he calls positive thinking can boomerang.
Bandhan's Ghosh must act fast on a succession plan
Rediff.com7 Nov 2014In any case, Ghosh could take lessons from the best professionally managed companies all over the world that always groom the CEO successors well in advance.
Bribery, bad loans and India's nationalised banks
Rediff.com15 Aug 2014The incidence of corruption cases can be checked to a large extent if the suggestions already available with RBI and the government are taken seriously, says Shyamal Majumdar.
Prev |