BW Communities

author-image

Prabal Basu Roy

Author

A Sloan Fellow from the London Business School, Director and Advisor to Chairmen of corporate boards, the author has formerly been a Group CFO in various companies.

Latest Articles By Prabal Basu Roy

India’s #MeToo Manthan: PM Modi Must Help Drive Change

The #MeToo movement is not about legality but about influencing change and demonstrating support

Read More
The ILFS Situation: Despite The Mayhem, An Innovative Solution Can Save The Day

The prime reason for the current predicament of ILFS has been its penchant for over leverage and a highly risky capital structure based on such leverage in its legal and operational entities which hold its significant long-term infrastructure assets

Read More
The New LIC “Policy” For IDBI: Insuring Corporate Mortality

Though LIC has been the favorite milking cow since times immemorial for the Government of the day, it has been generally used to prop up markets during bear assaults or helping pick up some residual stakes during partially unsuccessful divestment initiatives

Read More
The Great Corporate Governance Challenge

Satyam, Kingfisher Airlines, United Spirits, Ricoh India, Fortis... the list of companies that have duped minority shareholders is long and worrisome. Is there a way to keep unscrupulous promoters /managements under check?

Read More
The Chanda Kochhar Controversy: How Will The Cookie Crumble?

The Board now has an excellent opportunity to set things right by ensuring a fully independent and fair enquiry whilst the investigation by the enforcement authorities are parallelly in progress

Read More
Chanda Kochhar Controversy : A Profitable String Of Coincidences

Chanda must factor this in the equation in the interest of the institution she manages and more importantly of which she is the face

Read More
Anatomy Of A Scam: Should PNB Really Surprise Us?

Good judgement comes from experience, but experience comes from bad judgement. We have enough experience in scams

Read More
Live To Fight Another Day

Even though the prices of oil have risen appreciably to pave the way for the Aramco offering, billed as the biggest IPO ever, the event itself will be an overhang on the markets

Read More
The Message From The Financial Markets: Live To Fight Another Day

Retail investors would be well advised to wait till the next quarter to gauge the market and must not fall to the narrative of buying into this so called short term technical correction

Read More
Sharing Life Lessons

Sell will undoubtedly provide immense benefit for those who use its broad principles and have the ability to apply in their own spheres while reflecting in the context of their own experiences and situations

Read More

Subscribe to our newsletter to get updates on our latest news