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The COVID-19 crisis forced organizations worldwide to make immediate decisions about how to protect their employees from a mysterious, fast-spreading, sometimes deadly pathogen. Among their actions were requiring employees and customers alike to wear face coverings, deploying testing, adopting best hygiene practices, rolling out health monitoring and reporting apps, and encouraging people to work from home. In short, businesses quickly acted on the social determinants of health by adapting policies and physical environments to protect employee and customer well-being. Once largely the purview of governments and social services organizations, social determinants of health in recent years have begun to draw…

Markets regulator Sebi on Thursday said listed companies should make efforts to maintain updated addresses and contact details of “designated employees” for one year after their resignation, under the digital database. Such data needs to be preserved by the company or intermediary fiduciary for a period of five years, Sebi said in a set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) on insider trading regulations. A listed firm needs to maintain structured digital database internally that inc­ludes details of unpub­lished price sensitive Information (UPSI) as well as of persons with whom such UPSI…

The TikTok showed Nathan Adopaca longboarding to Fleetwood Mac and drinking from an oversized bottle of the company’s Cran-Raspberry juice.Free Book Preview Ultimate Guide to Social Media Marketing This book takes readers through a 360-degree perspective of social media marketing in businesses. October 7, 2020 2 min read Nathan Apodaca went viral for a TikTok that captured him drinking a bottle of Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice while longboarding and lip-syncing to Fleetwood Mac’s song, “Dreams.” As of Wednesday, the self-shot video already has nearly five million likes: @420doggface208 Morning vibe ##420souljahz ##ec ##feelinggood ##h2o ##cloud9 ##happyhippie ##worldpeace ##king ##peaceup…

The benchmark indices ticked higher for the fifth straight session on Wednesday, following gains in RIL as well as banking and IT stocks. There was, however, a mixed trend overseas after US President Donald Trump dashed hopes of a pre-election stimulus package. After opening on a weak footing, the Sensex gained ground to close up 304.38 points or 0.77 per cent at 39,878.95. Similarly, the broader Nifty jumped 76.45 points or 0.66 per cent to close at 11,738.85. The Sensex has now gained 1,905.73 points in five…

Through videos, the ecommerce company will show us the behind the scenes of entrepreneurs and the economy that you move when buying online.Free Book Preview Ultimate Guide to Social Media Marketing This book takes readers through a 360-degree perspective of social media marketing in businesses. October 6, 2020 3 min readThis article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process.In Mexico alone, the ecommerce platform has managed to add more than 8,000 SMEs since March 24, which means around 45 a day.The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digital transformation…

In order to further simplify the buying of health insurance by retail consumers and to help them make informed decisions, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irdai) is set to introduce a colour coding system for all individual health products that will enable the customers to gauge the complexity of the product. In a draft released on Monday, the insurance regulator said, every health insurance product offered by general and health insurance companies shall carry a colour code, which will indicate the level and extent of the complexity of the product. The insurance companies…

Credit Suisse Group hired nine private bankers from BNP Paribas to build its wealth management business in India and capture “booming demand” in a market dominated by local firms. The Zurich-based bank recruited one managing director, two directors, three relationship managers and three assistant relationship managers to be based in Mumbai, Benjamin Cavalli, the South Asia private banking head, said in a statement on Tuesday. “The Indian market has significant opportunities that both our investment banking and wealth management businesses can capture,” Cavalli said. The Swiss bank provides services ranging from…

October 5, 2020 7 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If the events of 2020 alone have taught us anything, it’s that businesses can no longer ignore their greater impact on the world and the role they play in shaping the bigger picture. So if you aren’t already, now would be a really good time to reflect on your brand values and evaluate how they’re guiding your daily actions and decisions as a business.  Brand values cannot simply be words that appear on the strategy document that gathers dust in some corner of the cloud. They…