On October 10 when everyone is talking about mental health, most of us tend to talk about our personal life. However, what about professional life?  The way one conducts herself/himself in the workplace can have a huge impact on others, and generally, it has a snowball effect!  With work from home (WFH) being a common scenario these days, the exchange of communication digitally has skyrocketed, be it WhatsApp, Telegram, and most importantly email. Think before you press 'Send'!  As per recently published research in the Journal of occupational health, rude work emails can have a negative impact on sleep quality, employee productivity, and mental wellness. Before you hit send, ask yourself, would I feel comfortable communicating this way if I were in person? How would I feel if this email is sent to me? And then rephrase, if needed. Working professionals, make your email tone as neutral as possible, without eroding the intent of your communication.

Rajat Gupta in his memoir, "Mind Without Fear," that released Monday, tells of his dramatic rise to the top of the corporate and financial world in America and then his fall after being charged in 2012, in one of the largest insider trading cases in the US. The memoir comes just months after a federal appeals court declined to throw out Gupta’s 2012 conviction. Gupta had argued that U.S. prosecutors failed to prove he got a personal benefit for passing tips to his friend, billionaire hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam. In 2012, Gupta was found guilty of passing confidential boardroom information to the hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, who is currently serving 11 years in prison for insider trading. One such information the prosecutors alleged Gupta shared with Rajaratnam in September 2008 was about Berkshire Hathaway’s five billion dollar investment in Goldman Sachs. While Gupta has already served his prison term, a ruling in his favor would have cleared his record. ...

Hewlett-Packard and software company Autonomy Co-founder Mike Lynch is set to fight a USD 5 billion civil fraud trial in London's High Court starting Monday.  The High Court lawsuit was filed by HP against Mr. Lynch and former Autonomy finance officer Sushovan Hussain in 2015. HP alleges that the men were behind the fraudulent manipulation of Autonomy’s accounting information on a massive scale, leading to HP paying an extra USD 5 billion for the company. The men deny the allegations and maintain the losses stem from HP’s own mismanagement of Autonomy’s integration. In the meanwhile, the US government has accused Mr. Lynch of destroying documents, money laundering and paying hush money to influence court proceedings. In an explosive set of new allegations made against the British tech entrepreneur, the Department of Justice added three counts of conspiracy and securities fraud to the 14 he is already charged with on Friday. As the High Court trial is due to start i...

HSBC is set to boost its wealth management offering with the use of the BlackRock Aladdin Wealth platform, after 18 months’ collaboration between the two parties.     Aladdin began as an internal tool at BlackRock before becoming the linchpin of Chief Executive Larry Fink’s plan to increase revenues from technology. It is used by investment managers to help to oversee risks and make investment decisions.  The partnership between Europe’s largest bank and the world’s biggest asset manager comes as both industries are battling to use technology to increase profits and improve service. Aladdin Wealth is tool that enables portfolio analysis, taking into account weight and risk management. Aladdin has largely been used in asset management since its creation over 30 years ago and was recently selected by Santander Asset Management to drive it digital transformation. BlackRock’s Fink has said he aims to increase revenues from technology to 30 percent of the firm’s...

From '#Open Happiness' to '#Taste The Feeling' ,#Coca-Cola has taken all it`s four sub-brands Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero and Coca-Cola Life under one umbrella. No more company is going to market them separately ,back in march 2015 company took a pilot project in UK ,and calling it a 'success’, company decided to take it globally. To support the changes, the soft drink brand has worked with four different agencies – Mercado-McCann, Sra. Rushmore, Santo, and Oglivy & Mather New York – and will launch 10 TV ads across 2016.Campaign begins with the global TV spot ‘Anthem’, which shows Coca-Cola’s impact on social situations such as ice-skating with friends, a first date, a first kiss, and a first love. CMO Marcos de Quinto said that the ‘One Brand’ strategy will provide consumers with ‘more choices’ as the brand aims to promote responsible health choices in light of global calls for a crackdown on sugar. adding on He further said "So far our s...

Corporate restructuring can be defined as when a company changes it`s business capacity/functioning through an inorganic route.These days corporate restructuring is done because of:- Rapid Technological change Coming up of new markets with new class of consumers Increase in competition Globalization etc. There can be many types/forms of the Corporate restructuring,like:-  Merger and Acquisition Consolidation Divestiture Joint venture Carve out Buy back of securities De-merger De-listing the company from the stock exchanges etc. Companies resort to Restructuring so as to increase the shareholders wealth,value and growth of the company plus the need of an hour too demands the same as it gives room to the Companies to have an edge over there competitors. And at present business scenario, it has become Necessary for a company to restructure itself from time to time as due to cut throat competition in the market,Companies either resort to market development,market...

New chapter has been written on the day,as on one of the biggest corporate splits in the recent past,Hewlett-Packard,77 years of long partnership comes into an end.The timing isn't a surprise as Meg Whitman announced the split in Oct. 2014 that it will take one year around for the split.Previous HP CEO Leo Apotheker planned to spin out HP's PC division in 2011, but the plan was shelved and he was replaced by Whitman,now after 4 years comes the great move. The reason for the split has been speculated as "focus", The two outcome being Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise will sell commercial computer systems, software and tech services. HP Inc. will sell personal computers and printers Starting Monday, each will trade separately on the New York Stock Exchange and investors will wind up owning shares of two Fortune 50-sized companies now. But the bad news for the employees as speculations are around in toto 55,000 employees h...

Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business, typically a start-up company offering an innovative product, process or service. In today`s world it has become the "cool facto" of the generation Y & Z in the country, what instigates this more is the "celebrities" status one acquires after being successful like Sharma`s, Bansal`s, Bahl`s and many more.Young generation in the country leaving no stone unturned to be there own bosses , 9-5 is not there cup of tea any more, I guess they want to drink champagne now and too taste it sooner, like 21-year old Ritesh Aggarwal- CEO and Founder of OYO rooms, who actually started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 17. Yet another example would be the band of 12 young students from IIT, Mumbai who founded Housing.com.I have heard many a times people saying I have the idea dude,but no money ... and my answer remains the constant "No money O honey, still nothing to worry" ,with the age of investors r...

With the refernce of the title ,Today Maruti is the market leader in India's mass market car segment, Its the old law of business who comes first gets the maximum pie of success. The same story goes for rolling out 4G services in India, While Reliance Jio has said that it will roll out its 4G services by December, India's largest telco Airtel commercially launched its high-speed 4G services in 296 towns across India 4 months ago than reliance,also other operators will launch the same service later this year or early next year. Airtel is offering 4G services at 3G data prices with packs starting at Rs 25. In addition, with every 4G SIM swap, Airtel is offering six months of unlimited music streaming and downloads on 'Wynk Music' and five free movies per month for six months on the Eros Now channel of 'Wynk Movies'.Airtel has also formed alliances with Flipkart and Samsung to support its 4G services. Also the transition from 3G to 4G is not going to b...

When one sees this advertisement one goes on a musical journey as the characters sticking their heads out of the window while singing the tune. The tone goes on to the higher pitch starting from the lower. Passengers in the train get fascinated by the father-child duo riding on the Honda Activa. The audience gets easily influence what one can expect from the new Activa-a joyful experience! After a long time advertisement to watch for especially in the 2-wheeler space.

In a cluttered handset market which is the slimmest phone has created a lot of buzz,surely,it has become a lot talked about feature for a product in the handset market. Recently, Micromax, India's second largest mobile devices company, with the launch of Micromax canvas silver 5, the company claims to have the slimmest phone in the world by taking the Guinness world record title by replacing Gionee`s S5.1 being the slimmest. With this technology coming up one can easily say that being `slim` is the differentiator in the handset market as everything inside the phone is almost the same what matters what a company has to offer outside. May be first mover advantage spin the table in the favor of gionee only and if, will it be able to sustain that position? I guess we need to wait for the data to come up officially for, who will be able to sleek into the consumer’s pocket. "Which is the slimmest of all ?"