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Her role has, in fact, expanded and become more strategic than before, when she was mostly discussing finance with company promoters.
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For most banks lending to companies, 2013/14 was quite bad. Kotak Investment Bank (KIB) was an exception, though.
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Today, women chairpersons in India broadly fall under one of
three brackets: those who come from the founding family,
first-generation entrepreneurs, and professionals including India heads
of multinational companies, such as HSBC India's Naina Lal Kidwai.
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With innovative products, the Bharatiya Mahila Bank is cheering the spirit of women entrepreneurs.
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The Andhra Pradesh Micro Finance Institutions (Regulation of Money Lending) Rules lead to a near-collapse of all MFI companies in the state. Here's how siz women leaders in the sector are coping.
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There
are no signs of slowdown in Bank of America Merrill Lynch if last year's marquee deals are anything
to go by. And the bank's country head Kaku Nakhate says the reason is her stubborn refusal to do deals that don't pay well enough.
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Six months ago, Jayanthi picked up a new challenge to make Capgemini the best-in-class offshore business player.
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"The oil prices are regulated. The best way to improve the bottom line
is to reduce the cost, and we are trying to cut every rupee possible," says HPCL CMD Nishi Vasudeva.
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CRISIL's businesses were encouraged to deliver analyses, such as the
'State of the Nation' report, a first-of-its-kind effort to provide
insights into key trends in the economy, sectors and companies.
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Other than PCs and notebooks, HP provides IT solutions to
companies. She would not talk about it due to confidentiality issues,
but one of Dhawan's proud achievements is a contract with India Post to
connect 28,000 offices.
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Jaya and Amitabh became a real life couple and she retired to look after
the Bachchan brood. He went on to become the biggest star we have seen.
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Publisher of Penguin Random House (PRH) in India, Chiki Sarkar has been instrumental in publishing the works of several celebrated writers. But she thinks it is still too early to call herself successful.
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Vinita Gupta took over the reins of Lupin in September 2013 and is now working
towards achieving the Mumbai pharma company's projected revenue target
of $5 billion by 2018.
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Despite tough market conditions, the
India Art Fair recorded 30 per cent growth in 2013/14. The annual event
had 100,000 visitors in the last three consecutive years
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To cite an example: Priyanka Amar Shah, a management student at the Welingkar Institute of Management, brought farming to the urban. Today, she helps several households and companies go green with her brain child iKheti.
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In the last one year, Colgate-Palmolive's market share in
toothpastes and toothbrushes has gone up, from 54.1 to 57.1 per cent,
and 41.3 to 42.1 per cent, respectively. The company's revenue has grown
from Rs 3,224 crore in 2012/13 to Rs 3,757 crore in 2013/14.
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Men still call the shots in panchayats despite reservation of seats for women. Business Today reports from Bihar, the first state to reserve 50 per cent seats at the grassroots for women.
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The company's revenue has doubled to Rs 7,583 crore in 2013/14 from Rs
3,643 crore in 2010/11. Almost 30 per cent of GCPL's revenue in the past
year has come from new products.
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Today, Singh, who is often called Wipro's rising star, heads
the $700 million Healthcare and Life Sciences business, which
contributes 11.6 per cent to the company's revenue. She plans to take it
to $1 billion in the next two to three years.
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Women folk of business families like Godrej, Lupin, Cipla, Emami,
Piramal, Sun Pharma and Wockhardt, among many others, are not just part
of their respective businesses for namesake but are actively engaged in
decision-making riding on their core competence.
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A decade ago, Ekta Kapoor virtually had a monopoly in the content creation business on television, but today there are many competitors. She copes with the competition through better content, ensuring a great talent pool and scaling up volume.
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Her job at Eicher and the subsequent one with Ashok Leyland, a trucks
and buses manufacturer, taught Menon the merits of diversity and
inclusion, and that there is a no cookie-cutter approach to challenges
at work.
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Since regulatory changes came into effect - a new Companies Act and
amended Clause 49 of Sebi's Listing Agreement - many promoter-run firms have inducted female family members
as directors.
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Jacob sees her gut instinct to
understand an entrepreneur as her biggest strength. A way to assess an
entrepreneur's ability to cope with pressure, Jacob says, is to check
the way they react when one challenges his/her assumptions of the market
or customers.
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"Right from the day I began way back in 1999, I have always wanted to
enable the common Indian woman a stylish designer garment," she says.
With her products competitively priced between Rs 1,500 and Rs 2,000,
Dongre has certainly succeeded in her ambition.
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As a producer, she has made 23 feature films, 75 short films and five
documentaries, including an Oscar-nominated short-film. After her mass
communications course, Monga, initially worked as a
production coordinator.
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Since Sonali Kulkarni took charge of Fanuc India in 2006 the company's revenue has doubled and she has safeguarded the company's market share through various steps, including scaled-down versions of robots and appropriate pricing.
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Unlike Indian companies, which often appoint friends and acquaintances
of founders as directors, MNCs typically go to an executive search firm
with defined parameters of the kind of professionals they look for to
fill a board position.
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A look at what the 13 women in Business Today's elite Most Powerful Women in Indian Business list have been up to recently.
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Arundhati Bhattacharya is a perfect role model. Her success story will inspire
many women to take up banking as a career in the years ahead and even
vie for the top jobs.
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In the eleventh edition of Business Today's annual listing of the best and brightest businesswomen in India, find out what makes these women stand out in the corporate world.
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More than 200-odd women managed by Gauri Singh's The Maids' Company, come from the absolute bottom of the pyramid.
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In February 2014, Pallavi Shroff's team managed to get a stay on the Competition Commission of India (CCI) order that levied a Rs 1,773 crore penalty on Coal India for allegedly abusing its dominant position.
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Indra K. Nooyi has directed the company's global strategy for more than a decade
and led its restructuring, including the divestiture of its restaurants
into the successful YUM! Brands, Inc.
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With the new Companies Act requiring at least one woman on every
Indian board, there will be many more treading the same path, so I
thought an honest summary of what I learnt in my board century might
help.
