Competition Law – Central to India’s Global Dreams Theme address of Dr Madhav Mehra at the Second International Conference on Competition Law on 12 Nov 2010 India is at a crossroads. It has achieved spectacular economic growth during the past decade that has understandably led to a growing conviction among Indians that the upcoming century belongs to India. India has become one of the world’s fastest growing economies with a global presence in automotives, business process outsourcing, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and information technology. India’s GDP in...
12th World Congress on Environment Management Summary of Recommendations“Despite Climategate and crippling economic crisis, climate change remains humanity’s greatest challenge”. This was the verdict of the scores of environment experts from across the world who participated in the 12th World Congress on Environment Management organized by the World Environment Foundation that concluded in The Ashok Hotel in Delhi this weekend. Here are the recommendations: Despite failed talks at Copenhagen, despite crippling economic crisis, despite bungling of IPCC and despite climategate, ...
Despite unsuccessful talks, Climate Change Continues to be humanity’s gravest challenge Madhav Mehra President, World Environment Foundation Is GDP growth the ultimate measure of human kind? In a new doctrine propounded by Lord Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, he argues, happiness is the sole goal of human activity. Secondly, happiness is measurable. Thirdly, we know what makes people happy or unhappy. Finally, state policy should aim at achieving the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Our overriding challenge is to bring billions living in developing countries to...
Carbon, Climate, Cancun and Commonsense *Madhav Mehra “How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? the idea is strange to us….The air is precious to the Red man, for all things share the same breath—the beasts, the trees, the man. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many years, he is numbed to the smell...”Chief Health of Red Indian Suwanish tribe living in what is now called the State of Washington to President Pierce of US in 1855. Why nobody does anything about it? Mark Twain might as well have been talking about global...
Public expectations of corporations have undergone a profound change during the last decade. Kenichi Ohmae in his book “The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy” has defined the role of corporations as follows: “A corporation is a social institution whose responsibilities extend far beyond the wellbeing of its equity owners to giving security and a good life to its employees, dealers, customers, vendors and subcontractors. Their whole life hinges on the wellbeing of the corporation.” Charles Handy says “a business is no longer just...
While chairing a session on “CSR – the heart of Corporate Governance” , at the 5thInternational Conference on Corporate Governance, Laura Tyson, the then dean of London Business School and a former National Adviser to Clinton administration , remarked that US law forbids companies to spend shareholder’s money on stakeholder issues or anything that will not benefit shareholders. This echoed the age old argument advanced by Milton Friedman, the celebrated economist in a 1970 article in New York Times Magazine that the "one and only social responsibility of business is to use its...
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...
Dr Madhav Mehra
Companies need managers who have an independent mind
There is a considerable movement of companies that are more responsible in terms of social, environmental and economic, and at the same time, trying to improve in terms ...
Competiton Law - Cental to India's Global Dreams
Theme address of Dr Madhav Mehra at the Second
International Conference on Competition Law .
International Conference on Competition Law,
12 Nov 2010
Dr Madhav Mehra GIRA 2010 Keynote Address
Described variously as a corporate guru, quality guru, "guru of substance", a visionary and futuristic thinker...
ICCL Draft Programme 12 Sept 2010
Empresas precisam de administradores que tenham um espírito independente
Madhav Mehra deixou o emprego confortável no Ministério dos Caminhos-de-Ferro indiano em 1988 para se dedicar aos temas da responsabilidade social, governo societário e ambiente...
Dr Madhav Mehra Delivering the Keynote Address on the promise of Transparency
Corporate Governance Conference, Athens 7 May,2009
The market meltdown is retribution of the bloggers to manipulators. Investors were shocked and awed ...
Dr. Mehra On Wall Street
"Wall Street is a factory of unethical practices.
Wall Street’s culture of cosiness, concealment, conceit and corruption has brought about this misery of recession, unemployment and suffering to the world economy.Wall Sreet-A castle to rip people off .That Wall Street has ...
Launch of Global Human Chain for PROACTIVATE to Combat Climate Change
30 May - 1 June 2008, SM Convention Centre, Palampur, India www.wcfcg.net
Climate change is an opportunity similar to one this planet experienced millions of years ago when extreme drought forced homonids to adapt to ...
HONG KONG: Corporate Ethics & Compliance Asia 2008
Transforming Corporate Ethics & Compliance into a Competitive Advantage
27 - 29 May 2008, Conrad Hotel, Hong Kong ,www.beaconevents.com
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: The 18th Global TRI*M Conference
Insightful Management Creates Valuable Stakeholder Relationships
5 - 7 March, 2008 Budapest, Hungary
Convention on Corporate Response to Climate Change
7th International Conference on Corporate Governance
JAMAICA: Taking corporate governance beyond the boardroom 
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