We are looking at different excise duties for products which are labeled energy efficient. So, products which are more energy efficient will pay lower excise, says Ajay Mathur.
The 15-month course at ISB is meant for senior executives who were being groomed by their organisations to move into leadership roles.
Mobile connectivity has reached people the fastest of all technologies and the wave of mobile internet will be driven by social networking, says Jean-Laurent Poitou, MD, Accenture (electronics.
Nasscom president Som Mittal shares his view on issues such as the rise in value of the rupee against the dollar, hiring trends and the role of IT in e-governance.
More doctors and healthcare professionals are joining management schools, turned away by the limited number of seats for a post-graduate course in medicine and the prospects of a better pay package after graduating from a B-school.
When the firm decides what to do, we will evaluate it.
'Good for us, bad for them'. That's what Microsoft's Chief Information Officer, Tony Scott, has to say to competitors like and Google.
According to Google India managing director Shailesh Rao, the company is exiting 2009 with a positive outlook.
Ajai Chowdhry, chairman and CEO, HCL Infosystems, tells Kirtika Suneja the environment may improve in three to six months, as the economy has bottomed out.
EXLService Holdings, Nasdaq-listed business process outsourcing unit, posted a 77 per cent year-on-year fall in its net income for the quarter ended June 30, besides reporting a foreign exchange loss of about Rs 8 crore (Rs 80 million). Rohit Kapoor, the BPO's CEO and president, spoke to Kirtika Suneja on the road ahead in these challenging times.
"HCL's employees know that bill tightening has to happen, but in a collaborative manner. There is a trust factor between the employees, the company and the customers and we do not have a pink slip policy. That is why we squeezed utilisation up to 75 per cent and our hiring in the last two quarters has not been much," says Vineet Nayar, CEO, HCL Technologies.
Canon has been annually launching around 100 products in India. The year 2008 saw a 31 per cent growth rate, to touch a top line of Rs 665 crore (Rs 6.65 billion).
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