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	Quest For The Magic Pill From drug cloners to drug creators, the Indian pharma industry is transforming itself for 2005. There's big money in R&D, but will the industry actually make the cut? The odds.

ACUMEN 2002

The West Zone round of Business Today-Standard Chartered Acumen 2002
saw some of India's best
business-school debaters
and quizzers match wits. A
snab report.
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	Glut! Remember the IT services treasure hunt? The search for e-Dorado? Here's the sad story of how it was done in by greed, incompetence, and local software heavyweight competition. This too was good while it lasted, but there are just too many players in the field today. more...		A Requiem For Reforms Presenting, a special service from Business Today—to lay a tearful wreath in the memory of the dear departed reforms process. We will miss the fond moments of the past 44 months that gave us glimpses of a prosperous India. more...




	The New B-To-B Forget ratings. Think B+ in cars, and you will find India's first high-volume upgrade segment in a state of frenzy. With the Zen, Indica, Santro, and Palio already zipping, and more players rushing into the fast B lane, watch out for a snarl-up ahead. more...		Dalal Street Daze The bear grip seems unending, groan market players who would rather be bulls. Recent policy depressants haven not helped. But still, the market has not given up hope on a new trigger that could send stocks up again. What could this trigger be, and when could it come? more...




	A Cement Czar's End Game What went wrong with India Cements? Poor debt management, mainly, as it appears. What will CEO N. Srinivasan do next? Hard to tell. But he sure appears to be getting pushed to divest the company of all the cement acquisitions it made over the 1990s. That will surely be a comedown for a man who got billed as India's cement czar, but does he have any other option? more...		The Complete Feeling Having snapped up ColorPlus, the premium men's casualwear brand that gained so much attention in just a few years, Raymond has given new meaning to its advertising property, 'complete'. The company finally has a complete menswear wardrobe to offer. But if its vast retail network is to be leveraged, there's still much to be done. more...




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Walkabout By Deputy Editor R. Sukumar

Hard-Sell By Special Correspondent Shailesh Dobhal







	All Weighed Down Reading stockmarket indices is not as easy as you'd think. Here's why. more...		Clocking Time Want to turn the workforce into a variable cost? Try temping. more...




	The Case Of Buying Revenues Tech firm BDL has made disparate global acquisitions. Are they justified? more...		Gone In 60 Seconds Kolkata's famed auction houses are dead, or dying. A look at the end of an institution. more...




	Moving Rooms Sujit Baksi and Aadesh Goyal's jumps, Ken Pringle's cup of tea, and Anjan Chatterjee's Big Apple foray. more...		Pulp It by R. Sukumar Going By The Book by Diljeet Titus Notes From The Trough by Mahesh Murthy Leadership Secrets by Ratan Jain





	No Free Lunches? Bottomlines of Indian IT biggies may suffer as they may have to expense stock options. more... Mr Telecommunications Union Telecommunications Minister Pramod Mahajan likes to call the shots. It shows. more... The X-Ray Factor A Bangalore-based radiologist comes up with the next big thing in ITES. more... It Still Pinches If only Bata could get Indian consumers to change footwear as often as it changes its CEO. more...		Help, Tarun!!! Tarun Sheth addresses your career concerns every fortnight. more...


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