HUL Losing Top-Dog leverage

Three of Hindustan Unilever's top team of eight executive directors - Gopal Vittal, Shrijeet Mishra and Ashok Gupta - have quit in the past 18 months. There have also been more than a few exits in lower levels of the company. And sources within and outside the marquee employer say managers are feeling stifled by paucity of growth options. CEO Paul Polman is rolling out to make Unilever more responsive globally, past and present HUL managers say. First, Polman has consolidated the global business into four divisions - personal care, home care, food and refreshments (like Ice Cream). Secondly, he is centralising much of the decision-making globally, stifling the role of local managers. Thirdly, he is forcing the company to consider outside

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Born in a remote Odisha village in 1942, Satyanarayan Gangaram (Sam) Pitroda -- the man who heralded India's communication revolution -- does not know his exact date of birth. Simply because his village did not have a hospital neither did it keep records of babies born. Which is why Pitroda feels the the unique identity number Aadhaar can bring in social innovation at the bottom of the pyramid. An advisor to the Prime Minister on public information, infrastructure and innovation, Pitroda draws on his wealth of experience to dicuss issues plaguing the government like Internet censorship and his vision of social innovation.

Reckitt Benckiser India Head Quits

S Raghunandan has quit Reckitt Benckiser India within three weeks of taking over as the country head of the Uk based consumer products maker, taking industry watchers by surprise. He decided to leave the 2000 cr Reckitt Benkiser India without a head in a critical market growing 20% year on year.

Government to take up repair work of SEZ rules soon

The commerce ministry will announce rules to simplify and rationalize procedures to revive special economic zones, hoping to draw investors to these enclaves once touted as centres of export excellence. The changes, which will be notified in a week, could include a reduction the minimum-area requirement, easier vacancy and contiguity norms and allowing multi-product SEZs in sectorspecific zones.

Tax sharing new Global Etiquette?

Post- Vodafone, India should super head debate