The best managed companies are also very successful companies, but the opposite is not always true. A Business Today and Ernst & Young study identifies what leading practices India's best companies adopt to outperform industry and competitors.

The Chairman of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories funds initiatives to alleviate hunger, create livelihoods, provide education and access to safe drinking water and pull back children from hazardous industries. So, how did the man who made his fortune in the ultra-competitive world of the global pharma business and whose first love is still science, morph into one of India’s largest givers? E. Kumar Sharma finds out.

Top 10 business schools in India that make the country proud

Firms are tweaking their HR policies to offer never-before incentives, carrots, compensations and growth opportunities to the limited talent pool available. Hiring is a challenge and retaining people an onerous task at the Big Four of accountancy. Saumya Bhattacharya tells us how you can make the most of it.

Sam Walton: Shopkeeper who could teach business to B-schools

The Business Today-Aditya Birla Group Acumen 2007 finals saw the best B-school talent quiz and debate about women, mile-high clubs and breaking the glass ceiling, among other things.

He wants to upend the governance system so that power returns to where it belongs: the people.

India Inc’s managers of tomorrow display the stuff they are made of at the sixth Business Today-Aditya Birla Group Acumen East Zone Finals.

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Riding the boom in the retail sector, Pantaloon Retail is adding a new outlet every week and 500 employees to its rolls every month. But finding the right people was proving difficult.

The auditorium of Mumbai’s Welingkar Institute of Management filled to capacity to watch the brightest B-school minds from the West Zone battle it out for a spot in the finals of the national B-school challenge.

Francisco D’Souza, 39, is being credited with heralding a change in the outlook of Cognizant Technologies. The company recently paid $135 million (Rs 540 crore) in cash for KPO company MarketRx.

With a booming economy minting millionaires, the demand for wealth managers has jumped. Result: Managing wealth was never so rewarding.

Six months of survey and analysis, 94 final participants, and hundreds of days of reporting is what it took to bring you stories of India's best employers. Best companies in pictures

Acumen 2007 kicks off with north zone participants vying for top honours.

Is negotiation an art or a science? It is popularly considered an art, but Harvard Business School professors Deepak Malhotra and Max. H. Bazerman disagree with this view.

Most Powerful Women in Business 2015

“We see it (Facebook) as a project and as a community where people are actually having fun with each other, rather than paying to have fun or thinking that someone is running this as a professional enterprise”

Expect the unexpected. While the economy continues with its upward march quarter after quarter, the latest BT-TeamLease Employment Outlook Survey reveals that the business confidence and employment prospects are at an all-time low in the last one year.BT-TeamLease Survey in graphics

It is admirable the way you have put together India’s Best B-schools issue (BT, September 23, 2007). At the same time, year after year, the same schools steal the show, like the Indian Institutes of Management.