 The Best Cities
What makes a city a business bastion? Or makes a business a
cluster? Indian cities have been caught in thee vortex of business transformation even as
its social infrastructure has become a metropolis' biggest competitive
advantage.A Cyber
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Nestled in the Deccan is a city that may soon be India's biggest infotech cluster.
The Interview
Andhra Pradesh's Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, says that although
governments may change, Hyderabad's destiny won't.
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CORPORATE FRONT
Is Bridgestone Really on a Roll?
By betting a huge capacity on the relatively small
market for passenger-car radials, thee global tyre-maker runs the risk of spreading itself
too flat.
Who Will Bottle up Herbertsons?
As Vijay Mallya and Kishore Chhabria decide to
openly fight it out, SEBI's decision could prove crutial.
Can the BPL Group Emerge
Unscathed?
Apart from falling production-levels, a strike
is threatening BPL's advantage as a low cost manufacturer.
Is ANZ Ready for the Grind
Ahead?
Only if roster-pruning coincides with mindset
changes and a leveraging of bank's enviable retail network.
Could Ceat Have Retreaded its
Accounts?
The tyre-maker may be restructuring its investment portfolio, but that too
is boosting its bottomline.
Electrex Drills a Powerful Niche
Anant Hegde has sized up the power tools market, but he thinks differently
to become a world class player.
Case Study: The Case of the Training
Centre
Neelkant Rao, the 55 year old CEO of Sankalp Electrical, was in two minds even as
he tried to create a new future for his organisation. Mastek's Ashank Desai and Arvind
Mills' Ganesh Shermon debate the CEO's dilemma.
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Interview: Integration Will Give Way
To Orchestration
"With both information and communications being virtually free, companies now
have options they never had before, and this offers them an advantage to the traditional
proprietary relationships" says Carl Stern, the CEO of the Boston Consulting Group.
The Buyback Yo-yoanza
The CFO's guide to managing share buybacks. A strong management, a happy
shareholder, a robust strategy and a healthy company. That is what the buyback promises to
deliver if it is used strategically.
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Investigation: Trapped In The Forest
Fire
Suddenly, Suresh Prabhu, the powerful Union Environment Minister, finds
his clean-'n'-green reputation going up in a blaze of irate investors, court cases, and
political vendetta.
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