ISBInsight is the Flagship Research Periodical of the Indian School of Business
The HDFC Journey HDFC (which started off as the Housing Development Finance Corporation) was set up in 1977 as India’s first retail housing finance company. At that time, it was akin to a start-up. The only difference was that, unlike most start-ups, this start-up was a post-retirement venture by H T Parekh who was 65 years old when he started the …
Read More »Deepak Parekh, Chairman of HDFC, was appointed to the Satyam Computer Services Board after its promoter confessed to fraud early this year. In an interview with Sanjay Kallapur, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Accounting at the Indian School of Business (ISB), he talks about lessons from the Satyam scandal, the challenge of crisis management, the role of …
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