In This Issue

Updated : May 1, 2014

India's most innovative companies

Barriers to innovation remain, but the most innovative companies have realised that "innovation" is not just about developing new products and services but, more fundamentally, about discovering new ways to create value. A Business Today-Monitor Group study profiles the most innovative Indian firms.

Updated : May 17, 2011

Fast food companies make merry even during slowdown

While most companies have been forced onto the back foot by the slowdown, fast-food companies are doing rollicking business.

Updated : May 12, 2011

Cotton's second coming

N. Madhavan travels to Perambalur district of Tamil Nadu to check out how BT cotton has changed the lives of farmers there.

Updated : Oct 14, 2010

Editor's note on Budget 2008

You may be a Harvard Graduate, one of the finest legal minds in the country and even an old hand at budget making, but when you are also a politician with political masters and, worse, an election to win, then you have no choice but to set aside whatever your rational mind may dictate.

Updated : Oct 30, 2009

From boom to bust

After years of rollicking appreciation, companies that make up the BT 500 are going through one of their toughest phases in a long, long time. As stocks get mercilessly hammered, this may just be the time when the men are separated from the boys. Virendra Verma reports.

Updated : Jun 10, 2009

Want a job, go rural

At a time when urban jobs are dwindling, microfinance’s many economic enterprises are generating significant direct and indirect employment, mostly in the rural areas—provided you have the right skills and aptitude.Saumya Bhattacharya goes into the details.

Updated : May 12, 2009

Beats of success

Four young musicians from Bangalore are helping companies improve the team spirit of their employees and heighten productivity by organising ‘drum circles’. And they are making a cool profit as well, finds out K.R. Balasubramanyam.

Updated : May 1, 2009

Understanding railway's miracle

This book explores how a chronically loss-making, state-run enterprise was transformed into a money machine—offering key lessons to even the best-run private companies.

Updated : May 1, 2009

Male surge in female bastion

Hit by pay cuts and job losses, more and more men are queuing up to join the direct selling industry. What’s the big draw?

Updated : May 1, 2009

'We are taking our India lessons outside'?

Simon Beresford-Wylie, Chief Executive Officer of the world’s second-largest mobile equipment vendor, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), is a veteran of the Indian telecom market. Over 14 years ago, he played a crucial role in establishing India’s first mobile network, Modi-Telstra, in Kolkata. Years later, he has returned to India, making the country the service delivery hub for NSN worldwide with over 20,000 employees. He spoke to BT’s Kushan Mitra.

Updated : Apr 24, 2009

Banking on India

While financial services giants have posted huge losses overseas, they are either making substantial profits or planning ambitious expansions in India.

Updated : Apr 17, 2009

World Wide Worm

The slowdown is fuelling the explosive growth of malware or malicious software and both India Inc. and Indian consumers are in the firing line.

Updated : Apr 17, 2009

'Asia needs to change its growth model'

Stephen Roach, Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia, is widely recognised as one of the most seasoned economists in the world. Known for his bearish forecasts, Roach’s research covers a broad range of topics, with particular emphasis on globalisation and the emergence of China.

Updated : Apr 17, 2009

Signs of a recovery?

While industrial output figures are grim, growth across some sectors suggests that the worst may be over.

Updated : Apr 16, 2009

Mini Global champs

A clutch of smaller Indian companies has gone international by making a number of small acquisitions the world over. The best part: They seem to be working, unlike some multi-billion-dollar buyouts. <ul><li><a href="http://businesstoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10787&issueid=53">United Phosphorus: Agri Aggressor</a></li><li><a href="http://businesstoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10788&issueid=53">Rain commodities:It'sraining cash</a></li><li><a href="http://businesstoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10789&issueid=53">Jubiliant Organosys: Crams caper</a></li><li><a href="http://businesstoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10790&issueid=53">Sintex: Labour gains</a></li><li><a href="http://businesstoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10792&issueid=53">Bilcare: Right place for the right price</a></li><li><a href="http://businesstoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10793&issueid=53">Bartonics: Raising the bar</a></li><li><a href="http://businesstoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10794&issueid=53">Rolta India:Mapping the globe</a></li><li><a href="http://businesstoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10795&issueid=53">Allied Digital: Remote control</a></li><li><a href="http://businesstoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&issueid=54&id=10796&sectionid=22&Itemid=1">Binani Cement: Concrete gambit</a></li><li><a href="http://businesstoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10797&issueid=53">Plethico Pharma: Inorganic prescription</a></li></ul>

Updated : Apr 2, 2009

Satyam: Unravelling the fraud

It’s still unclear whether B. Ramalinga Raju siphoned money out of Satyam. Investigations, though, have uncovered how the former chairman was cooking the books. Here’s the inside story on the accounting fraud.

Updated : Apr 2, 2009

Salary cut vs job cut

Can salary cuts save jobs? Perhaps, but they co-exist in times of downturn.

Updated : Mar 27, 2009

Rural to the rescue

Stagnant urban demand, collapse of export markets and relative rural prosperity are drawing companies to the countryside. Which means that the slowdown has not impacted the rural markets as much as their urban counterparts, reports Tejeesh N.S. Behl.Reform to Re-farmOn the farm trailColour of money

Updated : Mar 20, 2009