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Sustaining a Winning Culture with Ashu Khanna from 2022-12-01T19:00
With widespread remote working, rampant churn in talent pools and increasingly-transactional employee-employer relationships, companies risk losing elements of their culture, and with it, their ...
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Sustaining a Winning Culture with Ashu Khanna from 2022-12-01T19:00
With widespread remote working, rampant churn in talent pools and increasingly-transactional employee-employer relationships, companies risk losing elements of their culture, and with it, their ...
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Indians in China - June 2021 from 2021-06-03T16:00
China’s recent animosity towards India does not, in some ways, seem reasonable. It is, after all, economically and militarily superior and its churlish attempts to intimidate India for small par...
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FinTech: India’s Next Sunrise Sector? from 2021-05-13T14:00
India’s financial technology (FinTech) sector remains on a high growth trajectory despite the pandemic. Propelling it forward are tailwinds such as strong consumer demand, an enabling regulatory...
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Business Lessons from a Successful Start-up: The Udaan Story from 2021-05-07T09:00
Udaan Co-Founder Sujeet Kumar shared his learnings from building a successful B2B e-Commerce unicorn.
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Best Practices in Employer Branding from 2021-05-03T11:00
An IMA India research update on what leading companies are doing to bolster their employer brands.
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The CHRO’s Role in the New Paradigm from 2021-04-01T09:00
IIM-Bangalore’s Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan shared a perspective on the CHRO’s changing role in a post-pandemic world.
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From Surviving to Thriving: Business Opportunities in a Post-Covid World from 2021-03-26T09:00
Insights from two industry veterans on how companies can cope with, and eventually ride the waves of disruption.
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Winning in the Next Normal: Risk Management Imperatives for CFOs from 2021-03-18T09:00
Insights on the emerging paradigms in risk management in a post-Covid world
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Update - Productivity - March 2021 from 2021-03-07T18:00
Economists have argued that in view of India’s weak state of demand and investment, the Government should spend its way out of trouble. Pump priming would lead to higher incomes for consumers an...
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Salary Increments: 2021-22 from 2021-03-05T09:00
Insights from IMA India’s FY22 Salary Increments Benchmarking Study.
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Influencer Marketing: Beyond Reach and Towards Trust from 2021-03-02T18:00
Celebrities have been endorsing brands since the turn of the 20th century but over the last decade, a new class of influencers has emerged in the world of marketing. These are key opinion leader...
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Gender Representation and Pay Gaps in Corporate India from 2021-02-25T12:00
Based on insights from IMA’s 2020 Executive and Board Remuneration Report, this paper highlights some of key trends in female representation, and in male-female pay gaps.
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Board Pay vs Company Performance from 2021-02-22T10:00
Insights from IMA India’s 2020 Board and Executive Remuneration Report on the linkages between pay and performance at the top-management and Board level.
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Update - GameStop February 2021 from 2021-02-09T10:00
The remarkable story that has played out in America’s stock market recently pertaining to the GameStop’s scrip points to the emergence of a new category of players in the capital markets: retail...
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Leadership in the New World Order: Getting the Best out of your People from 2021-02-06T18:00
Genpact Founder and Clix Capital Chairman Pramod Bhasin provided his perspective on what leadership means in the new, post-Covid world order.
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India’s Debt Market and Corporate Governance Regime: Evolution and Way Forward from 2021-02-05T18:00
Gurumoorthy Mahalingam, a Whole Time Member with SEBI, provided an inside view of what the future holds for India’s corporate debt market, and for governance practices.
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The Construction and Real Estate Sectors: Is the Worst Over? from 2021-02-05T13:00
At a recent all-India peer group forum webinar, we asked three industry stalwarts to provide an outlook for the critically important construction and real-estate sectors.
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Stock Markets - Defying Gravity from 2021-01-26T16:00
The surprising run of the stock market has been a matter of some debate in recent months. Since the Covid-induced crash of March 2020, equity indices have more than made up their lost ground and...
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Planning the Return to the Workplace: The CHRO’s Early Considerations from 2021-01-20T09:00
Key takeaways from a recent India CHRO Forum webinar on how businesses are strategising for the future of work and the workplace.
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Leading Through a Pandemic: The CEO Way from 2021-01-08T13:00
Insights from IMA India’s CXO Priorities: Life after Covid report on how the crisis has caused CEOs’ to reassess their personal time commitments, and their decision to delegate, hire or...
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GST e-Invoicing: Recent Changes and the Road Ahead from 2021-01-04T08:00
e-Invoicing will radically change the way tax is administered under the GST. It will bring significant benefits but will also create a host of new issues and unknowns.
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Mind the CEO Skill Gap from 2020-12-17T14:00
There are unprecedented demands on CEO’s time, requiring high levels of physical emotional and mental energy. Do they have the right skills to cope? What gaps do they see in their skill sets an...
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Technology: Transforming HR Practices from 2020-12-04T11:00
At a recent India CHRO Forum webinar, Deep Thomas explained the many uses - and possible pitfalls - of using technology in the HR function.
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Business Confidence and Outlook: Insights from IMA’s Q3FY21 BCPI from 2020-11-27T13:00
At recent all-India webinars of the India CEO, CFO, CHRO and CMO Forums, we presented the main findings of the latest BCPI edition, followed by an open-house discussion among members about the s...
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Assessing the Sustainability of a WFH World from 2020-11-19T17:00
Hybrid work’, ‘remote work’ and ‘work from anywhere’ are just some of the phrases that have become commonplace in the corporate lexicon since Covid-19 struck. To gauge the sustainability of the ...
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Bihar Elections - November 2020 from 2020-11-18T10:00
The BJP performed better than expected in the Bihar assembly elections, significantly improving upon its own performance and ensuring that its NDA coalition came back to power. Bihar is always a...
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Tech Adoption in Finance: Leveraging the Potential of Exponential Technologies from 2020-11-17T17:00
The podcast, based on conversations with CFOs of leading companies, highlights the accelerating pace of technology in Finance and offers insights on how smart technologies are creating impact, a...
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The Global Economy and India: Taking Stock and Assessing the Outlook from 2020-11-17T15:00
In this podcast, Stephanie Flanders, Senior Executive Editor, Bloomberg Economics, and Abhishek Gupta, India Economist at Bloomberg Economics, provides an assessment of the impact of Covid-19 on...
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The Business Case for Kindness from 2020-11-12T20:00
Conventional wisdom holds that being kind is a risk in the cut-throat corporate world where performance and productivity are prized over everything else. However, social scientists argue that ex...
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Post-Covid Workforce Management: The New Labour Code and Other Risks from 2020-11-11T18:00
In this podcast, R Rajnarayan, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Titan Industries, Dr Prince Augustin, Executive Vice President – Group Human Capital & Leadership De...
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Covid-19: The New Branding Imperatives from 2020-11-07T18:00
Illustrating his talk with a series of recent, path-breaking media campaigns, Sukesh Nayak, Ogilvy’s Chief Creative Officer, spelled out what it takes to succeed in today’s ‘6-feet economy.
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Digital Marketing Challenges: The CMO’s Vantage Point from 2020-11-02T16:00
An IMA India Research update on the key DM-related challenges facing CMOs today.
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Technology Adoption in HR: Gathering Pace from 2020-11-02T12:00
This podcast, based on conversations with HR leaders across the services and manufacturing space, highlights the acceleration in the pace of technology adoption in this function, and how smart t...
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The Post-Covid World Order: India’s Foreign Policy Dilemmas from 2020-10-16T12:00
Suhasini Haider, Diplomatic Editor at The Hindu, highlighted India main foreign policy challenges as the world approaches the end of a traumatic year.
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Employment trends in India: Cutting through the Fog? from 2020-10-14T09:00
In this IMA India research update, we examine important labour-market trends that are visible in the EPFO’s data series on EPF enrolments. These include rising formalisation, greater labour-mark...
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Of Grit, Resolve, Compassion and Nerves of Steel from 2020-09-29T15:00
In this podcast, Anu Aga, Ex- Chairperson, Thermax India, shares her extraordinary tale of enduring a family crisis, the turnaround of Thermax, the lessons learnt, the values that define her, an...
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The Covid Policy Window from 2020-09-28T14:00
In this podcast, Manish Sabharwal, Chairman and co-founder of Teamlease Services, India’s largest staffing and human capital firm, provides a perspective on the policy challenges facing India, t...
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Update - Agricultural Reforms - September 2020 from 2020-09-23T14:00
Over the weekend, Parliament passed two important bills pertaining to agriculture - the Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotional and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and the Farmer’s (Empowermen...
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Update - Make in India September 2020 from 2020-09-20T12:00
India’s economy is today precariously perched. Unemployment has jumped, government revenues have collapsed, banks are saddled with bad loans, thousands of SMEs are on the verge of closure and co...
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The Changing Face of Digital Marketing: 2020 Vs 2015 from 2020-09-17T20:00
The podcast draws insights from IMA’s 2020 Digital Marketing Benchmarking Study on the evolution of digital marketing in the last five years.
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Outsourcing In Accounts Closing: To Deploy or Not to Deploy from 2020-09-15T10:00
The podcast, based on IMA’s 2020 Accounts Closing Benchmarks Report, reveals interesting insights on whether companies are, in practice, outsourcing their closing work to a third-party or opting...
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Automation: Spearheading the Closing Process from 2020-09-14T18:00
The podcast, based on IMA’s 2020 Accounts Closing Benchmarks Report, reveals interesting insights on how companies that are leading the ‘tech-adoption’ revolution in their closing processes are ...
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Inspiring Change: Going Beyond the Call of Duty from 2020-09-07T13:00
India Cares, a voluntary, grassroots initiative set up by IPS Officer Arun Bothra, is making a real different for thousands of people at a time when such efforts are most needed. In an inspiring...
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Update: US dollar - safe for now from 2020-08-26T15:00
Analysts often debate whether any currency can ever replace the dollar as the international monetary standard. As things stand, no other currency comes even close. The dollar's rise started...
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Navigating Distress and Preparing for Growth from 2020-08-25T17:00
The hotel-airline-hospitality trinity has been badly dented by the Coronavirus pandemic. Three industry stalwarts shared their learnings in terms of navigating this difficult phase and reinventi...
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Politics, Policy and Reforms: India after the Lockdown from 2020-08-24T20:00
Raj Kamal Jha, Editor in Chief of the Indian Express, provided an on-ground assessment of the situation with respect to Covid-19, and his views on the political and economic landscape that lies ...
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Update - Soft Power Diplomacy August 2020 from 2020-08-23T15:00
The foreign policy of nation states employs a combination of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ power. The former is about cooperation and consensus building. It is a slow and painstaking process involving cultu...
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Update - Here to stay August 2020 from 2020-08-16T12:00
When solving a complex puzzle one’s attention naturally tends to focus on the most immediate and binding constraint - the part that needs to be solved now as one cannot otherwise proceed. In so ...
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Transforming Finance: Accounts Closing Costs from 2020-08-10T18:00
This podcast highlights some findings around the cost of running the close process basis IMA's detailed benchmarking study '2020 Accounts Closing Benchmarks Report'.
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Chasing the Rainbow: Budgeting for Digital Marketing from 2020-08-10T18:00
This podcast focusses on spends on digital marketing basis IMA’s research conducted towards the creation of the ‘2020 Digital Marketing Benchmarks Report’.
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The Economy: India after the Lockdown from 2020-08-10T15:00
As India emerges from a nationwide lockdown, IMA’s Chairman and Editorial Director, Adit Jain, takes stock of what to expect on the economic and policy-making front in the months ahead.
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Digital Marketing: The RoI Conundrum from 2020-08-10T13:00
Much has changed in digital marketing in recent years, but one thing has not: companies still struggle to measure the returns on such investments. However, the returns on DM spends can be very s...
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FX and Currency Markets from 2020-07-27T13:00
Sridhar Narayan, Managing Director and Head of Global Markets at HSBC India, share his insights into the factors driving the Indian currency, and what to expect in the months ahead.
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Building a Trusted Brand in a Digital Age from 2020-07-24T17:00
Rajesh Kalra, Chief Editor, The Times Group Digital, one of India’s largest media houses, decoded India’s new media consumption habits and the implications for brands and marketers.
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Update - Stressed Banks July 2020 from 2020-07-21T13:00
The easing of lockdown restrictions in the last few weeks and the consequent resumption of economic activity has offered a degree of relief to industry and small businesses. While this is welcom...
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Update - Business Challenges July 2020 from 2020-07-13T14:00
Traditional economic theory says that a demand slump is usually caused or followed by an excess of supply. Conversely if there are supply constraints then demand tends to overshoot, leading to ...
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Update - Joe Biden July 2020 from 2020-07-12T10:00
When Joe Biden was first elected as a Senator from Delaware in 1972, he was one of the youngest in American history to occupy this office. Today, as he runs for President, he is one of the oldes...
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India-China Equation: The Fragile Equilibrium from 2020-07-06T10:00
Gautam Bambawale, Former Indian Ambassador to China, decoded India’s complex relationship with China, the forward view, and the implications for economic policy.
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Cutting-edge Social Media Marketing in 2020 from 2020-07-06T10:00
Manish Maheshwari, Managing Director of Twitter India, revealed how social media platforms like Twitter can give marketers a leading edge in today’s digital world.
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Politics&Economy: GST Rates from 2020-07-01T14:00
It is a settled principle of indirect taxation that the best structure is one that is based on a single and moderate rate of tax, with no exclusions and exceptions. Diluting this principle will ...
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Work from Home from 2020-04-15T12:00
Adit Jain shares what the new normal looks like for ‘work from home’ and what needs to be done to sustain it in the longer run
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The Flip Side from 2020-04-10T12:00
Aside from the implications of the current lockdown and the spread of a dangerous pathogen, Adit Jain shares a nice flip side to this adverse situation from the lens of a conservationist and wil...
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Disruptions as it spreads - Covid-19 - Adit Jain from 2020-03-26T17:00
Adit Jain, Chairman and Editorial Director - IMA India comments on the disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic on the Indian economy and the business environment.
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Disruptions as it spreads - Covid-19 - Adit Jain from 2020-03-26T17:00
Adit Jain, Chairman and Editorial Director - IMA India comments on the disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic on the Indian economy and the business environment.
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Disruptions as it spreads - Covid-19 - Adit Jain from 2020-03-26T17:00
Adit Jain, Chairman and Editorial Director - IMA India comments on the disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic on the Indian economy and the business environment.
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