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		<title>We have to learn to wear failures like badges of honour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[agree with Mr Wolf, “Nothing can eliminate corruption.” None tried better and failed so badly than   Lord Kishna himself. (B.Gita 3.21,3.37,3.38 ,3.41). His largest devotees are in India. But power of  tech has changed all this. The downfall of companies that survived through manipulation has just begun.   Corruption is such a global issue and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drmadhavmehra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8225783&amp;post=186&amp;subd=drmadhavmehra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why have two decades of Indian  reforms not translated into human development?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is growth that does not lead to empowerment worth pursuing? Slumdog Millionaire, Mark Zuckerberg, Julian Assange and India’s very own young directors like Aamir Khan (3Idiots) and Abhinav Kashyap (Dabangg) have proved that empowerment of the underdog is the biggest engine of growth and wealth creation. Heated debate has ensued on the impact of economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drmadhavmehra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8225783&amp;post=184&amp;subd=drmadhavmehra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who says Corporate Governance is dead?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporate Governance is dead! says John Richardson. http://globalinvestmentwatch.com/corporate-governance-is-dead/ Corporate Governance that is dead  and was doomed to die was the wrong kind – it catered only to shareholders who needed shot term gains to make a quick buck from  the market and had turned it into a veritable casino. They had little stake in companies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drmadhavmehra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8225783&amp;post=181&amp;subd=drmadhavmehra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LEADING A 360 DEGREE TRANSFORMATION THROUGH i-TEAR</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why have two decades of Indian  reforms not translated into human development? Is growth that does not liberate and empower humans worthy of pursuit? Mark Zuckerberg, Julian Assange and India’s very own young directors like Aamir Khan (3Idiots) and Abhinav Kashyap (Dabangg) have shown that empowerment of the underdog is the biggest wealth creator. Heated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drmadhavmehra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8225783&amp;post=176&amp;subd=drmadhavmehra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We look Bofors and  after and whine and dine over the loot little realising “thou shalt be found out” is the ultimate truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I-T Tribunal’s revelations, 25 years after the Bofors gun deal was signed, that  Quattrocchi and Win Chadha, the middlemen involved, did indeed receive kickbacks, has shaken the tectonic plates of the ruling party. The party had just exorcised  the ghost of emergency passing the blame squarely on Sanjay Gandhi. Mr Digvijay Singh smells a rat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drmadhavmehra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8225783&amp;post=167&amp;subd=drmadhavmehra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Governance, Sustainability and the Centrality of Transparency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the crisis of confidence? From Iraq to Ireland, Iceland to Indonesia, Afghanistan to Andalucía, Myanmar to Mauritius, Pakistan to Pyongyang, Beijing to Buenos Aires, Tyco to Toyota, Enron to Satyam, Bhopal to BP and IPL to Organising Committee of Commonwealth Games, there is a cringing crisis of confidence. Our problems of cash crunch, credit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drmadhavmehra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8225783&amp;post=161&amp;subd=drmadhavmehra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Competition Law is central to  India’s global dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am awed by the august presence  of distinguished luminaries  on the dais and legal giants  among the audience and seek forgiveness for my immodesty, audacity and temerity  in addressing you on a subject  where most of you are acclaimed authorities and I am a complete novice. It is now widely accepted   that a robust [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drmadhavmehra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8225783&amp;post=158&amp;subd=drmadhavmehra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why have two decades of Indian  reforms not translated into human development?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heated debate has ensued on the impact of economic reforms since Prof Jagdish Bhagwati’s Third Hiren Mukerjee Memorial Annual Parliamentary Lecture in the Central Hall of India’s Parliament on December 2, 2010.   A news report by the Delhi-based FT Correspondent, James Lamont entitled &#8220;High growth fails to feed India’s hungry&#8221;, published in Financial Times on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drmadhavmehra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8225783&amp;post=153&amp;subd=drmadhavmehra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mehra takes on the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Putting housewives on the boards could have saved the global meltdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hyderabad, 26 August 2009.   At a two day conference that concluded in Hyderabad this weekend it was claimed that the excesses of subprime that led to market meltdown could have been curbed had companies appointed more women on their boards. Almost 200 experts who assembled for the National Conference on Corporate Governance held in Hyderabad on 21 and 22 August and inaugurated by Mr Salman Khursheed, Minister for corporate affairs, questioned the role of independent directors.

 In his keynote address to the Conference, Madhav Mehra , president of the World Council for Corporte Governance asserted that no lessons had been drawn from the collapses of ENRON and Worldcom 7 years ago. In Dec 2001 when Enron was on the verge of collapse the audit committee comprising only of independent directors and chaired by Robert Jaedicke, Dean Stanford Business School, did not challenge a single transaction because of the cozy ties with management. On 16 December, 2008, the resolution of buying promoter’s sinking property companies by Satyam was passed by a board that had majority of independent directors including Krishna Palepu, Ross Graham Walker Professor at Harvard Business School and an authority on making boards effective. For this we don’t need iconic independent directors who strike deep holes in company pockets as it is difficult to make them understand something when their remunerations depend on not understanding it. Independent directors are required to hold powerful management and the board to account. This required independence of mind and ability to offer contrarian views -   a job that women could perform meritoriously in the boardroom and in a way that could disrupt the existing cosiness and groupthink." <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drmadhavmehra.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8225783&amp;post=98&amp;subd=drmadhavmehra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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