Global Banking News-October 6, 2017--AXA announces appointments in Investor Relations and Retirement Businesses (C)2017 ENPublishing - httpwww.enpublishing.co.uk Global Banking News - 06 October 2017 AXA (AXAF.PA) (EPA: CS) has said that it has appointed Kevin Molloy as head of Investor Relations ... (Publication: Global Banking News (GBN))
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AXA Announces Appointments in Investor Relations and Retirement Businesses
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Power Struggle
Over the next 14 months, the government wants to illuminate every home in India - that's a staggering 4,05,11,995 households. The move, however, might just end up plunging into darkness power distribution companies, or Discoms, already struggling to implement fiscal reforms under the Ujwal Discom ... (Publication: Business Today)
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"Most Practices We Teach Have Rootsin India"
What made you look at the connect between mindfulness and the business environment?I feel that if even a seriously flawed person like me can benefit so profoundly from mindfulness, I know others can too, and I want to help everybody in the world become peaceful, happy and compassionate. I wanted to ... (Publication: Business Today)
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How We Did It
This is the third year that Business Today and MDRA are bringing out the most exhaustive list of B-schools offering full-time management courses (PGDM/MBA), established at least five years ago and with at least three passed-out batches.The second stage involved fine-tuning the objective ... (Publication: Business Today)
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Upfront
Rs 90,669 croreGST collections in August, less than what the government was expecting. The July collections were Rs 94,063 crore. Only 55 per cent assessees paid tax for August, compared to 64 per cent for July.Quote"The prime minister claims that he has seen poverty from close quarters. His ... (Publication: Business Today)
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The Best Yet
After the Note 7 battery fiasco, Samsung's time under the sun has come. The Korean giant has hit a home run with the Note 8. Unlike other smartphones in the Note series that sport a 5.5-5.7 inch display, the Note 8 boasts a 6.3 inch 'infinity' display. Its slightly longish design makes it ... (Publication: Business Today)
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From Elite to Evolved
Karan (name changed), a student of the 2017 batch of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), had a pre-placement offer from an FMCG major after doing summer internship with the company. However, he applied to four more companies - most of them in the consulting space - during the final ... (Publication: Business Today)
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Bad Figures, Good Economists
Our last and current Prime Minister could not be more different: the only identifier they share is a beard. Manmohan Singh was highly educated; but for a friendship he made with I.G. Patel while he was a student in Cambridge, he might have ended up as a lifelong professor.Despite so much education ... (Publication: Business Today)
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The B-Network
Every year, hundreds of management graduates opt out of placement sessions and go on to set up own ventures. But of late, B-schools have been a witness to another trend - entrepreneurs joining an MBA course after founding a start-up. While learning new skills to run the business better and gaining ... (Publication: Business Today)
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"We Give Our Code to No One"
John Chambers, Executive Chairman of Cisco, tells Rajeev Dubey that the company will not provide unique capability to any country.Q. Are you for or against open networks and net neutrality?I'm a huge believer that the benefits of the network should be for all. I also believe that if companies build ... (Publication: Business Today)
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India's Best B-Schools
Change is wafting through the air. From corporate board rooms to business school campuses, the new rules of the game are engaging all and sundry. Indeed, the past 12 months have been a tumultuous phase for the Indian economy and businesses - from the night of November 8, when demonetisation and ... (Publication: Business Today)
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Powerhouse Duo
While the all-screen iPhone X with FaceID is eagerly awaited, we got our hands on the iPhone 8 (4.7-inch display) and 8 Plus (5.5-inch display). Here's our first impression:The designs of the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone 8 are not very different from the iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 7, respectively. The ... (Publication: Business Today)
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Best Reads
Sell: The Art, the Science,the WitchcraftBy Subroto Bagchi; 256 pages; `499; HachetteWith his vast knowledge on salesmanship, insights and anecdotes, the author creates an essential guide to becoming a successful seller - whether of a product, a service, an idea, an organisation or one's personal ... (Publication: Business Today)
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Stimulus Not a Panacea
The government is worried about the economy. In the past week, different ministries have seen a flurry of meetings to brainstorm how they can add some zip to the economy. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, which had not been constituted after the NDA government came to ... (Publication: Business Today)
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Autonomy and After
To appreciate the new Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bill, 2017, it is necessary to note the considerable distance it has travelled from past paradigms of command and control that defined the relationship between the IIMs and their 'owners'. It is yet to get through Rajya Sabha (Lok Sabha has ... (Publication: Business Today)
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The Infra Push
Picture this. Multiple screens in a room flashing stock market updates, currency fluctuations and bond yields with people poring over the information. Complex graphs are showing the trends over the day, months and years. Strange as it may sound, the visual is not that of a trading floor in a stock ... (Publication: Business Today)
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A Long Haul
When the Financial Times came out with its Global MBA Ranking in 2017, it was a mixed bag for Indian B-schools. Not a single Indian institution was among the top 25 although INSEAD (France and Singapore) grabbed the top spot for two years running. Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB) ... (Publication: Business Today)
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Peoplebusiness
Here for a YearAmid speculation that the NDA government would have to find a replacement for Arvind Subramanian as chief economic advisor, he has been granted a one-year extension that will end in October 2018. The extension of his term comes at a time when the government is planning to boost the ... (Publication: Business Today)
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The Tax Tangle
At a time when compliance issues under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) are proving to be a nightmare, the government has dropped another bomb by asking corporate and professional taxpayers to voluntarily report estimates of current year's income, tax payment and advance tax liability.The move, ... (Publication: Business Today)
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Why Profitability Matters
Kalyan Krishnamurthy, Chief Executive of Flipkart, recently said, "Profitability is not the highest priority today." He was not the first bossman of a large e-commerce company to say so. Neither will he be the last. But what the CEO of Flipkart and other top e-commerce honchos say, goes down to the ... (Publication: Business Today)
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