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Tata Chemicals looks at Bolivia to feed growing appetite for lithium

At present a lithium-ion battery accounts for 40% of the total cost of an electric vehicle. Photo: Bloomberg

Tata Chemicals eyes opportunities related to exploration, import of mineral to India and other places it operates in

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The genetics industry faces concerns about authenticity, given that the number of start-ups providing DNA test kits and services is increasing without any regulation. Photo: Steve Heap/Backyard Productions
Sapna Agarwal

The growth of genetic testing and personalized medicine

The global predictive genetic testing and consumer/wellness genomics market was valued at $2.24 billion in 2015, and is expected to double to $4.6 billion by 2025

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has played a key role in enabling businesses in the digital economy to thrive and grow while ensuring that innovation of the internet economy is not hindered. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint
Nisha Kaur Uberoi

How CCI should look at M&A deals in digital economy

M&A deals in the digital economy require antitrust authorities to scrutinize transactions on a holistic understanding of the market

The corporation is a societal construct; we give limited liability and other rights to the corporate form, but we expect something of corporations too.
Matt Levine

Something is lost when companies stay private

The growing interesting speculative companies that need cash are increasingly private, while the public companies are increasingly boring

At the time of his death in 2006, Mohan Singh couldn’t have imagined that in just over a decade, his grandsons—the Singh brothers, Shivinder (left) and Malvinder—would into the ground what had been one of the leading business families in India. Photo: HT
The Corporate Outsider
Sundeep Khanna

Ranbaxy’s demise wake-up call for business families in India

Given the many governance issues at Ranbaxy and Fortis Healthcare, it is clear that a strong board is a prerequisite in family businesses

A solitary sexual harassment complaint filed against a powerful executive can be enough to open the floodgates. Photo: iStockphoto
HR Matters
Hema Ravichandar

It’s time to develop an HR toolkit to respond to #MeToo moments

The ability to pick up early signals of a ‘quid pro quo’ or a hostile work environment form of sexual harassment is a great way to actually prevent a full-fledged #MeToo wave

The government proposal to sell its stake in Air India may well set a new template for privatisation. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint
Capital Calculus
Anil Padmanabhan

The Maharajah to reach for the skies again in a new avatar

The Air India privatisation needs to be looked at from a point of view other than just disinvestment—it has never been so good for India’s private sector

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