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The new corner office favourite

Across sectors, CFOs are stepping into the role of CEOs as companies see value in their realistic outlook grounded in numbers

Weekend Bites: Banking blues, exiting CEOs, and a new Cola War

Suveen Sinha takes you through the dust that might somewhat be settling down on the big news of the week

Anup Bagchi to take over as MD & CEO of ICICI Pru Life Insurance in June

Bagchi will replace N S Kannan, the current MD & CEO, who will complete his five-year term, and superannuate from service in June

Top headlines: Foxconn eyes second plant, Son invites start-up founders

Business Standard brings you the top headlines at this hour

TMS Ep377: Ajay Banga, Indian global CEOs, FIIs, social stock exchange

What are Ajay Banga's challenges at the World Bank? What makes Indians so successful as global CEOs? Where is India placed on FIIs' radar? What is a social stock exchange? All answers here

73% CEOs globally expect economic growth to decline, finds PwC survey

In the most pessimistic outlook in more than a decade, a global survey of CEOs showed 73 per cent of them expecting the global economic growth to decline over the next 12 months. Releasing the annual survey on the first day of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting here on Monday, PwC said this is a significant departure from the optimistic outlook of 2021 and 2022 when more than two-thirds thought economic growth would improve. This is the most pessimistic CEOs have been regarding global economic growth since PwC began asking this question 12 years ago. The survey further showed that nearly 40 per cent of CEOs do not believe their organisations would be economically viable in 10 years if they do not transform. Inflation, macroeconomic volatility and geopolitical conflict ranked as the top global threats while cyber and health risks fell from a year ago. The survey also showed that companies are cutting costs but do not plan yet to reduce headcount or salaries in their fight to .

Edtech start-up UpGrad's chief executive Arjun Mohan steps down

The departure comes as the edtech company was trying to internally cut marketing costs and become profitable

Business Standard CEOs poll: Capex tops India Inc's 2023 to-do list

Firms plan to go on a hiring spree; flag rising rates, weak demand as major concerns

Ex-ITDC MD G Kamala Vardhana Rao takes charge as CEO of FSSAI

Rao, a 1990 batch IAS officer from Kerala cadre, was previously the managing director of the Indian Tourism Development Corporation

Mind the gap: Avg top executive earns over 240 times median staff pay

Median employees in most sectors earn less than Rs 10 lakh per annum

Not just FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried: A look at five biggest CEO frauds ever

The manner of Sam Bankman-Fried's fall from grace is something the world has seen earlier, too. Here are five such biggest and most sensational instances

Dazzled and damned: A look at business leaders who had controversial exits

'Boomerang CEOs' don't always work out; Disney hopes to buck trend

The stock performance of companies led by CEOs who returned for another stint in their former position - so-called boomerang CEOs - was 10.1 per cent lower during their tenures

Most CEOs in India seek cyber-risk management plan next year: PwC study

One in four companies worldwide has suffered data breach that cost millions of dollars

Committed to Axis deal; will follow earlier methodology: Max Life CEO

Max Life and Max Financial Services are committed to going ahead with the deal with Axis Bank, which will see the latter acquire another 7 per cent stake in the life insurance company, said the CEO

CEOs of Indian companies get nearly 4% compensation hike in FY22

According to members of nomination and pay committees of several blue-chip corporations, there is a growing trend of linking CEO salaries to results and performance

58% of CEOs in India expect a recession to be mild and short: KPMG survey

66 per cent CEOs in India compared to 86 per cent globally anticipating a recession to hit over the next year

Effective directors display the art of healthy scepticism

Independent directors add value to a company not only through their explicit knowledge and cognitive skills, but also through their experiential intuition and heuristic skills

TMS Ep273: Protectionism, bullish CEOs, gas prices, demat and trading a/c

Why is India Inc protectionist? Why are global CEOs bullish about India? Will the spike in natural gas prices affect related stocks? What is a demat and a trading account? All answers here

Why are global CEOs bullish about India?

India continues to remain as a bright spot on the world economic map. That's the sentiment echoed by prominent global CEOs recently. Find out the reasons driving the bullish sentiment