BUSINESS TODAY

DEC 21, 2003

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	The Big B of Indian Business Inheritor, Global CEO, Raider, Hands-off Manager, Strategist, Family Man—meet the Kumar Mangalam Birla you've never known. 20 Companies To Watch In 2004 The first in a series of surveys, this looks at companies it may pay to keep an eye on. Read More

E-Commerce Lives

A clutch of small enterprises
and individual entrepreneurs
are putting the e-thing to good use and selling their produce globally. Read More

EVENTS
Best Banks
The awards ceremony of BT's Best Banks survey. Read More

BT Acumen
The National Finals. Read More

BT Golf
Details of the tournament's Mumbai leg. Read More





	Mid-course Turbulence India's most successful airline Jet, finds itself awash in a sea of red ink. Its new CEO says there's no reason to worry. more...		Unified Woes With the uncertainty over unified licensing ending, telcos are bracing themselves for a bruising battle ahead. more...




	60 Minutes: Martin Sorrell An exclusive interview with, arguably, advertising's most powerful man, the group CEO of marketing services conglomerate WPP. more...		Man Of Metal Can Sterlite's Anil Agarwal do to aluminium and copper what Ispat's L.N. Mittal did to steel? more...




	BPOs Go Shopping Amidst all the anti-offshoring sloganeering, Indian BPO companies are busy striking M&A deals in the US and elsewhere. more...		Manna For The Masses The demand for small loans from the country's poor is around Rs 45,000 crore. Why then hasn't micro-financing taken off? more...




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Three Digit Mark India's forex reserves are just about to scale the $100 billion mark—yippee! Is it time for a relook at the pile-em-up strategy? More Web Exclusives More Net Specials


Market Size Matters Forget the bric-view of 'emergence'. Think US vs China vs Europe vs India. It's all about becoming the single largest consumer market.

Consumer As Art Patron Is the consumer a show-me-the-features value seeker? Or is she also an art patron? Maybe it's time to face up to it.

Brand Vitality Timex, the 'Billennium brand', sells durability no more. Its new get-with-it game is to think ahead of the curve.







	Play Your Own Game What to do when the big players on the stockmarket unload their stocks? Should you sell? Or should you play contrarian? more...		Managing A Mensa Club It isn't really one, but given its IQ per square feet, GE's John F. Welch Technology Centre in Bangalore comes close. more...




	Delphic Details A book on the man that Oracle's Larry Ellison is, a framework for examining industrial performance, a lawyer on waging legal battles and the RBI Governor on change management.. more...		Drag Kings Bangalore isn't known for its drag races, where vehicles compete from a standing start over a quarter-mile. Judging from the response to the first Speed Run that could change. more...




	People Starring Diljeet Titus and his vintage car museum, crisis manager Bakul Dholakia; Absolut's Olympic medalist CEO; India crusader Arun Shourie; and a confused Michael Dell. more...		Global Leaders by Jagdish Bhagwati Leadership Secrets by Ninad Karpe





	Employment Exchange: Jobs For Lives As recent killings over railway jobs in Assam and Bihar indicate, India is set for social anarchy unless the economy creates jobs, fast. more... The Coming Scam? India's stockmarket watchdog believes not all FII money coming into India is chasing the Indian success story. Instead, it says, some of this money can be traced back to overseas corporate bodies belonging to Indian companies. more... Blue Disk Rules An Indian company gets itself a chair in a global industry standards body that will decide on the next generation of magnetic media. more... Self Worth: Paper Tiger Kolkata businessman S.K. Bangur wants to be India's paper tsar. more...		Don't Call Us, We'll Call You With tier-one call centres working for global clients, Indian corporates find the going difficult. Help, Tarun! IT's Hiring Again The Hospitality Boom more...


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