OCTOBER 24, 2004
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Tremors In BPL
The inside story of why patriarch T.P.G. Nambiar is unhappy with son-in-law Rajeev Chandrasekhar. Unhappy enough to drag him to the Company Law Board.

EDITORIAL
Cricket Corp. Of India
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BT SPECIAL
India's
Greenest
Companies

How corporate India is
turning waste into wealth.

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Big Boys Go Retail
Some of India's biggest corporations—
ITC, Bombay Dyeing, Reliance and Godrej

are climbing onto the organised retail bandwagon. They're setting up malls, hypermarkets, supermarkets, speciality stores…the works.
more...

Hidden Persuasion
As advertisers chase ad-jaded
consumers, stealth becomes the new
marketing weapon. And what better
way to disguise advertising than
weaving the brand into mainline
entertainment.
more...

The Faridabad Factor
It is the engine of small enterprise, and
not big business, that drives Delhi-
satellite Faridabad. And it is
chugging along nicely, thank you.
more...

BT Panel Discussion
HLL's K.G. Mohan, Pfizer's Arun Gupta, BPCL's R.P. Singh, Sushil Prakash of Bank of America, Deepak Ghaisas of i-flex Solutions, Kiran Karnik of Nasscom and Vijay Ahooja of HCL Technologies deliberate on issues related to IT outsourcing. more...

60 Minutes
Ben Verwaayen, CEO of the £18-billion telecom behemoth British Telecom, speaks to BT
about the changing nature of telecom services, and outlines his vision and strategy for the company.
more...

  Strategic Thoughts For
The New-Age CEO

For the 150-odd company heads and consultants present at the BT Knowledge Management Forum in Mumbai, it was a strategy session to remember. more...
 
 

Voice Of Bibliographica
Audio books didn't kill paper books. Then came the internet, and web books were supposed to be giving book publishers nightmares—till Amazon turned out to be the top website, and its chief effect was to send paper book sales soaring. So why is anyone still excited about audio book releases? Depends on the book's context.

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The iPod Effect
Now you see it, now you don't. All sub-visible phenomena have this mysterious quality to them. Sub-visible not just because Apple's hot new sensation, the handy little iPod, makes its physical presence felt so discreetly. But also because it's an audio wonder more than anything else. Expect more and more handheld gizmos to turn musical.


Panasonic
What route other than musical would Panasonic take, even for a phone handset, into consumer mindspace?

If Know Them Better You Must...
Go online for detailed profiles of The 25 Most Powerful Women In Indian Business. For that's the odd thing about power. No matter how well you think you've understood it, there's always something more that you would want to know. Do log on.
 

Investing For Numberphobes
Terrified of all those big numbers
investors are so fond of?
There's still a way.
more...
 

The IT HR Heads Club
In what must surely rank as a first, the HR
heads of Infosys, Wipro and Satyam have
created a formal-yet-informal forum to
discuss and address issues common to
the industry as a whole. more...
 
Freedom Over Fear
An American cognitive psychologist
explains 'psychosurgery' to
business readers, while
American diplomats fill us in on
'engagement'. more...
 

The Old Sugar Road
EID Parry's sugar mill at Nellikuppam, Tamil Nadu, is the lowest-cost producer of sugar in the country. It is also India's oldest sugar factory and a relic from the country's colonial past (circa 1845).
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People
Starring Anuroop "Tony" Singh of Max New York Life, Vivek Bharat Ram of DCM Benetton, RBI Deputy Governor Rakesh Mohan, Carlo Donati of Nestlé India, Meleveetil Damodaran of UTI and Jagdish Khattar of Maruti Udyog.
more...
 

Leadership Secrets by Richard Rushton

Up, Up And Away
Crude oil price skyrocketed to $50 a barrel
on September 28. What does it mean
for India?
more...

Shopping Expedition
Public sector banks set out shopping for acquisitions with wish lists and cheque
books in tow.
more...

Biotech's Y2K
Indian biotech companies look to grab a
greater slice of the growing global
biogenerics market.
more...

Orange At Red-light
If the FIPB doesn't approve Hutch's consolidation plan, its IPO may be a non-starter.
more...

The Spine Search
The hunt for independent board members has begun. Are you game?
Help, Tarun!
The Novelty Perk Factor
Ethical Hackers
more...

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