MARCH 16, 2003
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Mister Feelgood
In a year littered with elections, Finance Minister Jaswant Singh delivers a budget that makes all happy: consumers have more money to spend on products that now cost less, industry has no reason to complain, and foreign investors must be pleased. Will this translate into growth?


Budget '03: The Finer Points
The nuances of the budget; stock - and sector - watch; a tax primer; industry - and consumer - sentiment monitors; key-numbers; competition - speak; product - prices; and offbeat stuff to do with the year's most important financial announcement.

SEW Eurodrive
Flat, Fast And Furious

It employs just 40 people,
is growing much faster
than the industry, and will
rack up Rs 25 crore in
revenues this year. So
how does the Indian
subsidiary of German transmission products
giant do it?

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Babel Babble
Everyone who is anyone in computing is speaking the same language these days—and it's not English. Local language initiatives by Microsoft, HP, Red Hat, and a clutch of other companies could help break the digital barrier and take computing to the masses. 2003 is it. more...
Vowel Sourcing
Actually, that's e-sourcing. After the boom and bust of the much-hyped internet economy, companies are discovering that they can gain huge supply chain efficiencies by e-enabling their relationships with suppliers. An exclusive Freemarkets-BT survey. more...

Growth Pangs
Dr. Reddy's strategy of becoming a discovery-led pharmaceutical major by focussing on research and by tapping the lucrative US generics market by challenging existing patents appears risky.
But it could just work.
more...

60 Minutes
DuPont's Charles O. Holliday Jr. heads a 201-year-old company that claims it is in the business of science. In an interview with BT, Holliday, who was in India recently, speaks on the company's plans for India.
more...

Turbulent Skies
With a rash of aggressive marketing strategies Air Sahara, hitherto the laggard among
Indian Airlines, has carried the fight for domestic passenger traffic to the camps of its rivals,
Jet Airways and Indian Airlines.
more...

 
 
Q&A: Kunio Sebata
The President and CEO of the $3.8-billion Hitachi Home and Life Solutions Inc tells BT Online about what it's like to operate independently in India, the company's past relationship with the Lalbhai Group in the air-conditioner market, its faith in joint ventures and its current plans for India.

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Walkabout
By Deputy Editor
R. Sukumar


Hard-Sell
By Special Correspondent
Shailesh Dobhal
Pre-nup PF
Marriage is bliss? Yeah, sure-so long
as you keep your finances in good
shape. Here's some sound marital
counsel..
more...
Two Action Hats
Some senior execs have perfected the art
of tying up loose ends at job #1 (in company #1) and planning their approach to job #2 (at company #2). Here's how. more...
The Case Of Hi-Tech Convergence
Should Buzz Watches use technology to connect with the consumer? C. Srinivasan of Titan, H.S. Purewal of PA Times and G. Kannan of Swatch offer their views. more...

Fill 'em Up Quick
I knew next to nothing about wine, nothing
about cheese, but an encounter with
Madame Daničle Raulet-Reynaud changed
that. For good.
more...

The Eagle Has Landed
Kinetic's Sulajja Motwani, Cartier's Harry Fane, Inter-Pacific Bar Association's Ravi Nath, CSE's Sunita Narain, Samsung's Chang Hyun Yoon, and Starcom India's Anita Nayyar.
more...
Notes From The Trough by Mahesh Murthy
Leadership Secrets by Hari Shankar Singhania

The Linux Resurgence
With a helping hand from Intel, HP, Oracle, IBM, and Silicon Graphics, Linux arrives as a real alternative to you know what.
more...

Murthy-speak
Ace infotech marketer Phaneesh Murthy has a warning for BPO companies.
more...

Seek Consumers, Not Numbers
WPP Media's Sheila Byfield likes to think like a consumer to make a happy one.
more...

Illegal Link
Fly-by-night operators thrive in a large grey market for international telephony.
more...

Help, Tarun!!!
Tarun Sheth addresses your career concerns every fortnight. more...

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