HDFC Bank’s heavy weight in the Nifty has amplified the impact of its prolonged underperformance, as post-merger margin pressure, slower growth, deposit mobilisation challenges and investor concerns continue to weigh on the stock
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The Paramount-Warner deal was far from straightforward as Paramount had beaten Netflix in the bidding for Warner Bros after improving its offer and securing a personal funding guarantee from Larry Ellison, David Ellison's father
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Corporate governance expert Shailesh Haribhakti examines the Tata Sons rift and the difficult question of what directors owe when shareholders, appointers, law and institutions pull in different directions
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Thomas Mathew, former bureaucrat and the late Ratan Tata’s biographer, talks to Vikash Tripathi about the Tata Sons-Trusts power struggle over control and a potential listing, and reflects on the Ratan Tata era
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A boardroom rift at Tata Sons exposes tensions around leadership, control and a potential listing, putting its unusual ownership and governance model under scrutiny
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Foreign selling, elevated US bond yields, high crude prices and a weak rupee have battered large-caps, even as domestic liquidity keeps mid- and small-caps relatively resilient
Simple Energy expects to enter FY28 as a profitable company, with Simple Wave helping improve volumes and margins as the company shifts its focus from scaling to self-sustainability
The two countries agreed on a framework for an interim trade agreement in February. Signing did not follow, as the US Supreme Court struck down the legal footing of the preferential tariff mechanism Washington had offered
India’s clean air challenge is also an economic opportunity, with CSR capital offering a potential route to fund targeted and measurable solutions
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Tata and Hero face different challenges but raise a shared question: as companies grow, where should power sit and who should be accountable?
Harshavardhan Chitale spearheads two-wheeler king Hero MotoCorp’s quest to conquer new territories and defend its market leadership
Harshavardhan Chitale, chief executive, Hero MotoCorp, talks to Yuthika Bhargava and Fazal Rahim about the two-wheeler maker's growth strategy—multi-brand electric vehicle (EV) bets via Vida and Ather, the push into premium motorcycles and scooters
Deloitte India's Rajat Mahajan and Atul Jairaj say that for legacy automakers, success will depend on converting core capabilities into new sources of competitive advantage
A boardroom rift at Tata Sons exposes tensions around leadership, control and a potential listing, putting its unusual ownership and governance model under scrutiny
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The Paramount-Warner deal was far from straightforward as Paramount had beaten Netflix in the bidding for Warner Bros after improving its offer and securing a personal funding guarantee from Larry Ellison, David Ellison's father
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Pronab Sen, in an interview with Outlook Business, says the bigger concern with the new GDP series is not just the sharp downward revision to past growth estimates but the lack of transparency over the data and methodology behind it
Inflation risks are rising because of a confluence of food, fuel and imported price pressures, and testing monetary policy’s ability to engineer a soft landing
