The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 29, 2008

COLUMNS

IT'S LONELY AT THE TOP: Papaya theory of customer centricity
Customer centricity is something everyone talks about but hardly anyone practices. It’s really quite shocking to see that even today many businesses and companies treat their customers as “necessary evils” to be exploited, ...

RACY CASES: Grasping the oil price, inflation linkage
“Are the economic principles of demand and supply still valid?” asked a friend. We are at a loss for words for we are staunch supporter of economics. He continues, “I am scared to buy a car, for fear of oil prices touching ...

STICKLISH ISSUES: IIM placements after US crisis
Responses to Sticklish Issues dated Sept 22.. What goes up must one day come down. Nowhere is this fact truer than with business school salaries. A booming economy coupled with a deluge of global investment banks scouting for Indian talent led ...

READING ROOM: Funds management
The word `cash' in CMS (cash management services) is a misnomer, writes M. N. Gopinath in Banking Principles & Operations (www.swpindia.com). Instead, the word `funds' could have been used, he suggests, since CMS aims at efficient management ...

STICKLISH ISSUES: Should Indian investors think of buying US homes?
Send in your responses, along with your hi-res photo, to ...

FOR THE ASKING: GDR versus FDI
The scheme for issuance of GDR made by the Finance Ministry makes it clear that the mobilisation of funds through the Global Depository Receipts (GDR) route should conform to the FDI guidelines and limits. Thus where foreign ...

FOR THE ASKING: Rights preferred
Rights issues are back in favour. Do you think companies such as Tata Motors are doing the right thing by making rights issue when neither the economy nor the company is ...

FOR THE ASKING: Free reserves
For computing the ceiling on inter-corporate loans/ investments/ guarantees, the paid up share capital and free reserves form the basis. Free reserves are those as appearing in the latest balance ...

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