Hardware's
Rs 75,000-Crore Opportunity
Hardware manufacturing, once written off as unviable, is making
a comeback as India wakes up to a very real hardware manufacturing
boom engendered by a large domestic market.
Indian
companies are today returning never-before profits. Here's our pick
of the fastest-growing of them all.
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EVENT
India's Young Super Performers
Introducing
an all-new award to recognize India's bright young minds.
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The
Populist Reformer Interim the Union Budget
is, but
Jaswant Singh seems to have combined
old-style sop populism with a welcome
fiscal correction.more...
On
The Road With $10 Billion Thirty-three venture capitalists from the US
descended on India early February for a first-hand experience of the
India Shining story. An "embed-ded" coverage through four metros.
more...
Start
Up Sweepstakes What
industries pay their MTs as much as their junior managers? Interestingly
enough, the BT-Omam Management Trainee Salary Survey 2003 reveals,
it is the newer ones. more...
60
Minutes Adobe Systems Inc. CEO Bruce Chizen
speaks to BT about his company's
turnaround, rivalry with Microsoft and the threat from open source.
more...
"We
Need A Global Middle Class" Four
eminent policy makers and economists
from leading American "think tanks" dissect
the term "globalisation" in terms of its implications in a roundtable
discussion
with Business Today. more...
India
Gets Truckin' Hectic road and highway
construction have persuaded new players to enter the heavy vehicles
market. The existing players meantime will soon storm the market with
higher-tech, new-gen trucks and buses. more...
Q&A: Donald
Stewart
He is Chairman and CEO, Sun Life Financial. A 138-year-old firm with
$14.6 billion in assets, it is Canada's largest financial services
company. And he's been at the helm during one of its most difficult
phases. He spoke to BT Online on the insurance business, acquisitions
and corporate governance. For excerpts, log on. More
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Net Specials
Muppet
Leap For Disney
Under pressure to show creative sparks, Disney has acquired Jim
Henson's famous Muppets. Surprised?
Institutional
Integration
There was a time many decades ago when India's state planners bestrode
the economy like giants. To finance the plans, they needed a set of
financial institutions that would lend money for all the projects.
Then came free market reforms, and they lost their relevance. The
solution?
Fastest
Growing Companies
There's something about rapid growth that's irresistible. For a run-down
of India's 21 Fastest Growing Companies, turn to the contents section
of this issue. And if there's some company you would like to know
a little bit more about, log on. BT Online presents details of each
of the 21 firms' operating circumstances, including details of its
competitive arena and how it is placed in it.
Towards
Safe Success In a volatile market with such high
stock valuations, here's a portfolio
strategy that's safe for retail
investors too. more...
All
Above Board Everyone knows that independent directors help
the cause of corporate governance. Now, companies are also realising
that there are other adventitious benefits. more...
The
Customer As Collaborator An exclusive extract from "The Future of Competition"
by C.K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy, a book that offers a roadmap
to new ways of value creation. Plus: Interview with the authors more...
Once
There Were Giants The idyllic and luxurious plantation lifestyle
has taken some hard knocks. Result: more memories of the good old
days.
This Minstrel's Still on Rock Island
Health Notes more...
People Starring Stern Stewart's Indian-born Aussie cricket
buff Tejpavan Gandhok, born-again UTI MF's M. Damodaran, Jet Airways'
Naresh Goyal, high-trekking Radha Basu of SupportSoft, and marathoner-CEOs
Ashok Wadhwa of Ambit Advisory and Anil Ambani of Reliance.. more...
It's
Showtime, Folks! As a slew of companies
prepares for a
concerted attack on investors' wallets,
ad agencies and media vehicles rake
in the moolah. It's all about timing. more...
Pleasing
Everyone The JPC report finds
pesticides in cola,
but not too much, and praises whistle-blower CSE as well. more...
Poll
Bonanza No, we're not talking
about the FM's sops. Electronic voting machines manufacturers BEL
and MVPL cash in as the election bandwagon rolls. more...
Community
Speak Anna University launches
India's first
community radio station, much to the delight of its students. more...
Corporate Rumble What are military
men doing in the corporate world? Anything strategic?
Help, Tarun!
That Rural Stint
Recruitment@113kbps more...
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