BENGALURU: As American denim giant Levi Strauss & Co chases its target of expanding into a $10 billion business globally from the current $6.2 billion, president and CEO Michelle Gass tells TOI that she has set her sights on India, among the top six markets for the inventor of the blue jeans, to drive the … Read more
In a Monday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Domino’s Pizza CEO Russell Weiner discussed weakened guidance the company gave last week for its international business. “When you’re in 90 plus markets around the world, you’re going to have some fits and starts,” Weiner said. “But the beauty is you have the other markets to, you … Read more
Best Buy CEO Corie Barry told CNBC’s Jim Cramer the electronics retailer is getting ready to sell a slew of new artificial intelligence-enabled personal computers. “We are, as you can imagine, arming ourselves on every angle to be the single best place to come experience this,” Barry said. “So, you’re going to see physical demos of … Read more
Ford CEO Jim Farley wants the industry to stop viewing hybrid vehicles as only an interim solution to be used until drivers are comfortable going fully electric. “We should stop talking about it as transitional technology,” Farley said of hybrids at a Bernstein analyst conference on Thursday. Plug-in hybrids, which include a small battery that … Read more
Jodi Wellman, a positive psychology expert, was an executive leader for 17 years but realized that achieving the pinnacle of success wasn’t bringing her any joy. “I was, like many people, achievement-oriented. I tied my sense of self-worth to what I was doing, how much I was producing, what the name on my business card … Read more
NEW DELHI: In response to the tragic incident involving a Singapore Airlines flight, CEO Goh Choon Phong released a video message on Wednesday, extending apologies to all affected by the traumatic experience.The incident occurred on Tuesday when Singapore Airlines flight SQ321, en route from London’s Heathrow Airport to Singapore, encountered severe turbulence, prompting an emergency … Read more
Vodafone Idea (Vi) CEO Akshaya said the telco is looking at further conversions of government dues into equity as well as internal accruals to address payout obligations toward spectrum and adjusted gross revenue (AGR). The moratorium on these payments ends in September 2025. The statement came during Vi’s FY24 fourth-quarter earnings call Friday. Moondra was … Read more
Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw sharply criticized Ancora Holdings, the activist investor currently engaged in a proxy fight with the railroad company’s board, during an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday. “We’ve gone to the activist, and we’ve offered a settlement — their responses have been unreasonable at the determination of our board,” he … Read more
Heli-skiing on virgin snow in Antarctica for a cool $2.2 million. A polar bear safari in an “off-limits” area of Norway’s Svalbard for $300,000. How about tracking snow leopards in the Himalayas with renowned explorers for $100,000? Big-ticket travel experiences like those are indicative of the “quiet luxury” trend which began in the world of … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC’s Jim Cramer the artificial intelligence powerhouse is making humanoid robots because much of the data used to train them comes from the human form itself. “We’re in a world where, in order to write a software for a computer, we use data, or training examples, and the computer learns … Read more