E.U., Japan Urge U.S. CFTC to Curb Cross-Border Reach
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated throughout. LONDON (Reuters) - Britain, France, Japan and the European Union have called on the United States to limit the cross-border reach of its new...
View ArticleChipotle Profit, Forecast Disappoint, Shares Drop
DENVER (Reuters) - Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. said on Thursday [Oct. 18] that restaurant sales growth would cool in 2013 and some analysts said that might signal the end of the hyper growth investors...
View ArticleOxford Investment Chief Launches Attack on Private Equity Fees
LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity burdens investors with unfair and sometimes hidden fees and delivers poor performance in return, the head of Oxford University's endowment said on Thursday [Oct. 18]....
View ArticleCries of Abuse Grow with Use of Complex U.S. Stock Orders
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated in the seventh paragraph to add that anyone can use order types. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Allegations of abuse over how a stock trade is executed may soon bring a...
View ArticleShrinking European Banks Face Scrutiny on Progress
LONDON (Reuters) - A month of strong bond trading revenues in September will bring some respite for Europe's banks, although questions over their plans to shrink to become more profitable are likely to...
View ArticleLiquidity Falls as 'Naked' CDS Ban Approaches
LONDON (IFR) - Liquidity in sovereign credit default swaps has cratered ahead of a controversial E.U. ban of outright short positions set to come into force in less than two weeks' time on Nov. 1. The...
View ArticleNew Releases This Month
Summary: With the rate at which Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) went around offending the bad guys in the 2008 box office hit Taken, it comes as no surprise that vengeance fuels the plot for a sequel. TAKEN...
View ArticleMy Stuff
Summary: Mohit Anand, Managing Director, Belkin India shares his favourite things. HOME IMPROVEMENT Drives BMW 325i Entertainment System I enjoy the graphic effects of pacy thrillers on my Samsung LED...
View ArticleOverseas Branches of Indian B-Schools Target the Diaspora ; Several Indian...
On an August evening in Dubai, 11 years ago, Aby Abraham was relaxing at home after returning from work. Little did he suspect that his life was about to change. He was reading the Gulf Times and...
View Article'There Are Companies Which Are Defying the Law' ; in the 20 Months He Has...
In the 20 months he has been Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India, Upendra Kumar Sinha has taken several initiatives, but has also been involved in controversies. The Supreme Court...
View Article'We Are Certainly Worried about Quality in Higher Education' ; Human...
Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal discusses some of the problems of management education with Sebastian P.T. Edited excerpts: Q: Management institutes incapable of providing quality...
View ArticleTwo Surveys, One Ranking: How We Did It ; from 2003 to 2011, Business Today...
For the past several years, BT did a pure perceptual survey to rank B-schools. Like we said before, it has its merits. But this year, we decided to do a combination of a factual and a perceptual...
View ArticleScents and Sensibility ; Meet Some of the Men and Women Who Develop the...
Kiran Ranga's job has nothing to do with coffee. Yet he sniffs coffee beans every 15 minutes at work. It is his diversion, a break from his real job, that of smelling a "palette" - as he puts it - of...
View ArticleCollateral Data Damage ; Microsoft (MS) Word Is Perfect for Long, Written...
Remember the time capsule the late Indira Gandhi's Congress government buried in the mid-1970s? Unfortunately, the post- Emergency general elections led to the rout of the Congress and the new...
View ArticleThe Art of Time Management
Summary: The world's oldest watchmaker in operation, Vacheron Constantin is a benchmark in art and accuracy. If you're given an empty canvas and asked to paint your inner thoughts, the brush is likely...
View ArticleOf Milk and Honey ; Mann Deshi Udyogini's Unusual Curriculum Is Helping Women...
Surekha Vijay Kale, 27, a goatherd, earns Rs 150 to Rs 200 per month selling milk and doing odd jobs. Once in four months she sells a goat and earns up to Rs 8,000. Thanks to a six-day goatrearing...
View ArticleHubli Joins the Circuit ; the Sleepy City of Hubli in Karnataka Is Home to a...
An innocuous sentence in a presentation that Sasisekar Krish was making to a friend changed his company in ways he could never have imagined. He said: "We also sort nuts." Krish's start-up, Nanopix,...
View ArticleIn Rough Seas ; Procedural Hurdles and Delays in Approvals Are Hurting...
Plumes of coal dust have become a part of everyday life in Visakhapatnam, the port city that handles a quarter of India's coking coal imports by major ports. Coal is manually unloaded from vessels and...
View Article'Academic Research Is Rare in India' ; an Israeli-American Professor at ISB...
The Indian economy - dogged as it is by scams and slow growth - is still exciting to many. Many professors in other countries are keen on working here, but there are some flies in the ointment....
View ArticleIIM-A Roars Back to the Top in 2012 ; after a Year's Hiatus, IIM-A Is Once...
It takes a lot to get to the top, and it takes a lot more to stay there for eight consecutive years. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), did just that, monopolising the No.1 spot in the...
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