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            ../2005 Online Special
 A special Ernst & Young report on the scenario in several sectors 
            pre-Budget, and what they look like post-Budget ../2005.
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          | From Start 
              To Finnish
 Finland, like India, has 0.7 per cent of world trade. It leads in 
              communications technologies, from paper to phone handsets, and nearly 
              owns the entire market for such niche products as ice-breakers. 
              It has the hardware competence. India, the software. It is inviting 
              Indian firms to joint hands to map the entire technology value chainfrom 
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          | F&B Mythbusting Just what is happening in India's booming food and beverages (F&B) 
            business space? One helluva lot, according to Sujit Das Munshi, ED, 
            ACNielsen South Asia. Log on for an exclusive column by him that doesn't 
            just look at 'share-of-appetite' trends that F&B professionals cannot 
            afford to miss, but also junks some preconceptions of the Indian palate.
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          | McSwoop McDonald's, with a new CEO back at heaquarters, is lowering a price 
            bait to lure the budget-conscious Indian on-the-move bite-grabber. 
            This fits into a broader strategy of multiplying customers that includes 
            reaching out to McSceptics.
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            You Insured? You could be, but your priorities could be 
            all wrong. Insurance, more than anything else, requires a well-thought-out 
            strategy.
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              Lesson In EntrepreneurshipA clutch of B-schools is taking management 
              education to its next logical step: helping turn business plans 
              into real businesses.
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            Of Carbon The planet is at too much risk-in separate 
            assessments of a business consultant and a UCLA professor. Plus, the 
            modern customer interface.  
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              Your ConstantineWith a motion pic starring 
              Keanu Reeves set to hit Indian theatres, and a game and a comic 
              book based on it to follow, it makes sense to know about John Constantine, 
              the latest comic book character to make it to the world of celluloid.
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              PeopleStarring Swati Piramal of Nicholas Piramal,
 Keki Dadiseth of Unilever, Nabankur Gupta of Raymond, Anand Mahindra 
              of Mahindra & Mahindra, and Rajat Gupta of
 McKinsey & Co. 
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            Gupta Leadership Secrets by Arvind Singhal
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              Call, Wrong NumberSMSes, broken rules, 
              and India's largest company on the backfoot, the illegal international 
              calls saga has it all.
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 Everything… 
              As It Is: InfiniteThe intriguingly-titled 
              Doors of Perception conference seeks to press the right
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              BPL: 
              Round IIT.P.G. Nambiar's fresh 
              salvo could hit his son-in-law where it hurts most. more...
  
               
              Policy 
              Watch: M………… ReduxIt's that M word, Manmohanomics 
              again. We're happy.  more...
 |  | The White Coats Are Coming Indian pharma looks 
            out for scientific skills to play a global game.
 Help, Tarun!
 The Mirror Effect
 Flippers For Thought   
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