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Why leadership remains central in crises

Strong leaders help a company survive over the longer-term but for a company to truly survive, it has to live beyond its leaders

Arvind Subramanian: Guarded optimism beats gloom

If we focus on the longue duree, there is promise for the developing world

Shyamal Majumdar: The promoter-professional combine

Family businesses have had a mixed record in attracting and retaining professional talent

Janmejaya Sinha: Advice to new CEOs

Inflation doves soar

Status quo by key central banks implies more FPI inflows into India

Insurance IPOs can open the door for infra funding

The insurer typically has a big float of free cash, which can be deployed for projects that generate long-term returns

Bhargavi Zaveri & Radhika Pandey: Completing the loop on FPIs in bond market

Recommendations about foreign investment are belated but welcome. The regulator must now complement them with a clean-up of the complex regulatory edifice that is vulnerable to frequent ad-hoc changes

A V Rajwade: An 'inclusive' world economy

Liberal capital flows and fiscal austerity increase income inequalities

Shailesh Dobhal: What brand wars tell us about consumers

These battles are as much an indication of the nature of consumerism as they are markers of corporate rivalries

Is the worst over for PSU banks?

The reason analysts are not comfortable to call the bottom in PSU banks is because of the opacity of the data

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: The e-Book market

Kenneth Rogoff: The case against cash

Scaling back paper currency would hardly end crime and tax evasion, but it would force the underground economy to employ riskier options

IT's troubled times

Near-term demand outlook has clearly deteriorated

Devangshu Datta: Trundling along without much progress

Weak US data dampen chances of a rate hike by the Federal Reserve. The European Central Bank has also maintained status quo. And the market consensus is that the Reserve Bank of India may hit the paus

Ajay Shah: Finance for the poor - Policy, not programmes

Enacting and enforcing the draft Indian Financial Code holds the key to financial inclusion

Indo-Nepal reset

India needs to play its cards right this time

Mr Javadekar's agenda

The IIM issue has been fixed, but there is still a long to-do list

A K Bhattacharya: Why Modi is batting for GST roll-out

The prime minister is aware that whatever be its consequences, a new taxation regime cannot be launched closer to the general elections in 2019. Thus, any date after April 2017 for the launch of GST i

Sakina Dhorajiwala & Rajendran Narayanan: Rejected wage payments in MGNREGA

A wage payment to a labourer can be rejected for a variety of reasons, such as incorrect MIS entries and mismatch of names and bank account numbers

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