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MAY 25, 2003

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	CFO's Day Out He's no more the storekeeper, the glorified accountant, the backroom beancounter. Today's finance chief at India's biggest businesses is driving strategy, closing out deals and is the CEO's right-hand man.

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	Sales Army Businesses are deploying armies of salespersons who work as self-bossed entrepreneurs, masters of their own fortunes and schedules. And it works. more...		Moving in For the (S)Kill From financial services to manufacturing, a clutch of MNCs is outsourcing a chunk of its high-end work from India. Make no mistake, this isn't your plain-vanilla BPO we're talking about here. more...




	Scootermania In a third millennial reversal of roles, Indians may soon ride scooters for style, motorcycles for substance. more...		All Fall Down The reinvention of Reliance Infocomm is on, and a new and improved company will be a whole lot more difficult for the competition to wish away. more...




	Firms in Arms The government's decision to directly buy defence equipment from the private sector has proved a boon to a clutch of companies. more...		BT: 60 Minutes In a freewheeling interview E. Mervyn Davies, the CEO of Standard Chartered Group, tells BT why India is important to his bank. more...




	Fourth Generation Success Cognizant has been around just nine years, but a unique business model could well make the New Jersey, US, and India-based company the most resilient of them all. more...		Profile: Vinod Sethi How Vinod Sethi discovered life after Morgan Stanley as a smart investor and a kick-ass martial arts maven. more...




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Q&A With Jack Dangermond Meet the President of the California-based Environmental Systems Research Institute, a $480-million Geographic Information System (GIS) company. The man was in Delhi recently to sign an MoU with the Department of Science and Technology (DST) for the 'Mapping Your Neighbourhood' project. So what's this all about? More Web Exclusives More Net Specials


Village Women Could Hindustan Lever be on to something big? Its Shakti project is a micro-credit programme that intends to get rural women organised into self-help groups, and that too, in such a way that raises their purchase budgets manifold. This just might be the way to crack the rural scene. A look at the potential.







	What Now Stocks With tech stocks in crisis, are there some other good picks out there on the stockmarket? We go out with searchlights. more...		Team Fix-it TAS, a talent nurturing pool that provides parachute-in executives for the Tata group, has rejuvenated itself. more...




	The Case Of Sharing Risks Should DoReMe insist on royalty deals with music makers? V. Lazarus of Universal Music, S. Thomas of Crescendo Music, H. Billimoria of Tata Infomedia, and A. Mitra of Saregama India discuss. more...		Suburban Fauna In which our intrepid reporter sets out to understand Gurgaon's upwardly mobile smart set—let's call them guppies, shall we—better and unearths fivepreviously unknown sub-species. more...




	Star Struck Starring Ratan Tata, Star's Rupert Murdoch, the controversial Ramesh Gelli, UB's Vijay Mallya, Hutch's Asim Ghosh, Sushma Swaraj, Jayalalitha, and management guru C.K. Prahalad more...		By Invitation by Ashvin Parekh Left Angle by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Notes From The Trough by Mahesh Murthy Leadership Secrets by Kanwar Bhutani





	SARS Hiccups Sure, SARS won't lay the Indian economy low, but the chances are we'll get singed by the crisis just the same. more... Super-Rupee Surging forex reserves further strengthen the rupee against the dollar. more... BPO's New Kid Telco major Bharti makes a calculated move into the BPO space. more... Q&A With Steve Van Andel The first citizen of direct selling on his plans for India, and the rest of the world. more...		Help, Tarun!!! Tarun Sheth addresses your career concerns every fortnight. more...


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