scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicCorporate governance

Topic: Corporate governance

Corporations are privileged citizens now. IndiGo crisis shows boards must answer to society

Corporations resent regulations that curb their freedom to operate. If they want to be trusted, they should respond to society’s needs, rather than lobbying against regulations.

SubscriberWrites: Corporate governance for entrepreneurs and the common man

Good corporate governance in companies ensures fair labour practices, equal opportunity, and compliance with employment laws.

Kingfisher Airlines to Victoria’s Secret—How authority bias brings governance failures

The authority bias gets concretized due to long tenures of board members which erodes their actual independence from the owners or promoters.

Corporate affairs ministry ordered inspection of Byju’s last week, reports CNBC-TV18

The ministry is taking cognizance of various corporate government lapses at the education start-up, said the news channel. 

Damaged your reputation because of one small mistake? Here’s how to repair it

While reputations can be protected, research shows this shouldn’t happen at all – there's a dark side to reputation management that can, and should, be avoided.

India Inc got leeway in 2021. But 2022 an acid test for corporate governance

With strong governance standards, corporate India can hope to gain better capital flow and to also get investors’ support.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.