Chanda Kochhar, MD and CEO, ICICI bank is a woman of substance, with as good a sense of business as of her responsibility as a woman, and a mother. In May 2014, she wrote a touching letter to her daughter purported to inspire her with stories of Kochhar’s own struggle, hard work and values.
She heads one of the world’s biggest consumer product companies and one of the only 20 women heading an S&P top 200 company, but her insights on the issues women still face at work come across as telling of the situation prevalent even today.
Speaking at the Women in the World Summit, Indira Nooyi, the 44 year old Indian-born CEO of Pepsico, has shared a lot of heartfelt thoughts about women at the workplace.
WebEnage’s success shows Indian B2B startups are slowly coming of age. They’re making inroads into international markets, and away from the attention and the hype, building some solid businesses.
The Indian startup ecosystem is normally a friendly place. People offer each other tips, share insights and generally have each other’s backs and the whole startup fraternity seems to be one big back-slapping family. But when there’s intense competition and big money at stake, the niceness is sometimes cast aside and bitter rivalries surface. And even as some of these are pushed under the carpet, sometimes the founders decide to make it public.
Here are the top 11 times when the things got a bit heated in the Indian startup ecosystem.
HP, or Helwett Packard, has just launched the “thinnest laptop” yet in the Spectre 13″, and it’s done it in style. Apart from a jazzy video and other new age marketing paraphernalia, HP has used this opportunity to unveil a new logo. The logo was originally designed by Moving Brands, an agency, as a part of a branding overhaul 5 years ago. Back then, the logo was rejected
We’re past that phase where we needed to talk about what women bring to the table because if you don’t understand this by now, your company is doomed. This is about understanding that our work culture is masculine by default (since women entered workforce less than just a century ago) and working towards making it gender neutral.
Meet Chinnappa, a 55 year old, ex army veteran who’s employed as an Uber cab driver under the Uber Fauji programme. Started late last year, Uber Fauji is an initiative by Uber that aims to give employment to ex servicemen.
How does a great cricketing nation hire a new coach? Through an ad in the newspaper of course.
I’d spent the last few weeks desperately trying to save my startup and failed. My co-founder had told me point blank that he had no faith in my ability to be the CEO of the company. I’d studied at the best engineering college in the country, worked at the best management consulting firm in the world. I took risks and tried to build a real business that built real technologies to help real factory. I even had paying customers. And still, I’d failed.