'As they grow bigger, the trail of their pioneering success often leaves behind a causticity marked by deficient human resource practices, negligible focus on corporate governance and rife sexism.'
Ivanka spoke for a good 15 minutes, gracefully, looking straight at her audience, her face wreathed often in winning smiles. She is an articulate, striking, woman who charmed her audience.
'Once I was ready with my product I started looking for funding and realised people would not understand how a woman could, without a technology or an IIT/M background, be running the business alone.' 'Today when I connect the dots I feel grateful about how I have been able to overcome and learn with every failure.'
Nandan Nilekani and his wife Rohini are trying to improve education across India.
People are not just splurging on clothes, mobiles and household goods through the online route, they are also looking at cars and even houses.
Moving ahead with their new mantra -- Chalein Saath Saath: Forward Together We Go -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to deepen cooperation in every sector for the benefit of global stability and people's livelihoods over the next ten years.
Malini Agarwal reveals how she blogged her way to Bollywood, fame and success.
'We use the word "historic" perhaps too much, but the prime minister's visit certainly was historic in so many ways.'
Internet users in India is attracting cyber criminals, as these are first-timers, who can be duped easily
It is betting on enterprise services and new launches to revive demand. But are the measures enough to steal a march on established players like Samsung and Micromax?
Stay ahead of the game; learn the tricks from Ecom king Jack Ma.
'If the RSS should be saluted for choosing such a scholarly statesman to address its highly trained cadre, one must also praise Pranab Da's sagacity for having gracefully accepting the invitation, thus disapproving any ideological apartheid,' says former BJP MP Tarun Vijay.
A raise in the I-T exemption limit has been sought by many.
Ritu Jha/Rediff.com reports from California on the largest TieCon ever.
Chanda Kochhar is among the three Indians in Time's Most Influential list.
ITC is one of those few enterprises in the world that has traversed a 100 year journey and has yet managed to remain contemporary, relevant and competitive.
It's puzzling why Indian cos keep their acquired brands out of play.
This is the joint statement issued by the ministry of external affairs on the visit of US President Barack Obama to India.
Education remains one of the key focuses of the new government.
US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, newly elected co-chair of the influential Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, discusses her vision for US-India ties with Rediff.com's Monali Sarkar.
Opposition said saying it lacked vision and road map to execute ideas.
Indian economy about to take-off
Atul Bhatnagar, COO, National Skills Development Corporation tells us how we can effectively tackle the issue of unemployability and make our youth more employable.
The president outlined the government's agenda in the coming financial year in his customary address to the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament.
The processor is just 5 per cent of the overall cost of a computing device.
'A veiled secret of India's defence and strategic culture is the lack of a serious interest in them by the political class. The Indian National Defence University would fill this void,' feels Lieutenant General Anil Chait (retd).
'I want to leave behind the bank stronger and better than when I took over.'
Satya Nadella is the highest-paid CEO in the US. So how do the other Indian-American executives fare?
India needs to come up with new ideas to make the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas more appealing to overseas Indians. The Diasporas talents should be used for the country's development, says Thomas Abraham, founder of the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin
President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday addressed the first joint sitting of Parliament as mandatorily required under the Constitution after the general elections. The address is the political, economic and foreign policy road map of the Narendra Modi government and covers virtually all crucial areas.
It was clear in Brunei at the 8th East Asia Summit that China doesn't want the South China Sea issue to even dominate the discussion, reports Sheela Bhatt, who is part of the prime minister's media contingent to the summit
Power2SME, a one-stop shop for sourcing and buying raw materials for SMEs, is the only B2B firm in this space.
The India that needs strategic alliances, defence cooperation and engaging meaningfully with neighbouring countries is quietly moving ahead with confidence, says Tarun Vijay
'India is no longer the India of the '70s and the '80s.' 'It's a large country with the fastest growing economy.' 'In working with India, you just can't go and humiliate the nation publicly.' USIBC President Mukesh Aghi tells Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com about how he advises American companies to do business with India, what he thinks of Modi's government and the way forward for the India-US relationship.
'It is in the interest of both sides that the visit of the US President is seen as being successful. Both sides have invested considerable political capital in it. This rapid exchange of visits and the decisions taken have to be justified, beyond the symbolism, which is no doubt important in itself. This opportunity to impart a fresh momentum to ties should not be missed,' says former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal.
In his penultimate State of the Union address, Barack Obama said that the economy is improving.