The central government's Make in India initiative and a spurt in interest shown by angel investors and venture capitalists to fund tech hardware start-ups might just give the much-needed boost to the industry.

Has technology really levelled the playing field between small and big companies? A power-packed panel in Bangalore debated the subject with gusto.

\"It was an absolutely thrilling experience to be in the Mobile Lions jury at Cannes and spend five long days before coming to the conclusion on the winning entries,\" says Sanjay Mehta.

Microsoft India, which topped the list consecutively for the past four years, has been inducted into the 'hall of fame' category this year.

Money Today, in collaboration with Financial Planning Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd (FPCIL), honours institutions and individuals for excellence in financial planning.

The second edition of the Money Today FPCIL Awards 2013-14 recognises and honours institutions and individuals that did exceedingly well by ensuring overall financial well-being.

The talent is there, the capital is there, the ability to take risks is there. Perhaps what is lacking are role models of product innovators.

Called the Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise, it will be headed by Professor Kavil Ramachandran, a family business expert, as its executive director.

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You can always improve your cognitive skills and abilities, said experts Peter Docker and P. Murali Doraiswamy at BT MindRush.

The two-day Business Today MindRush 2014 offered huge takeaways for corporate leaders on how to stay at the top of their game at all times.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO N. Chandrasekaran said that the company decentralized aggressively during the economic meltdown of 2008/2009 as part of efforts to improve efficiency.

Only companies with more than Rs 1,000 crore revenue in the BT500-BT's listing of the country's most valuable companies by average market capitalization from April to September-were included in the study.

Glenn Saldanha said that innovative training programmes across businesses along with an entrepreneurial environment were crucial to fostering innovation.

Business Today awards India's Best CEOs for 2014, celebrating their success in various segments of the corporate world.

This is Business Today's third ranking of India's Best CEOs. In 2012, we published our first ranking, in partnership with INSEAD and HBR.

The second Business Today-YES Bank Emerging Companies Excellence Survey unearths gems that could go far.

Indian CEO salaries are touching new highs as the war for talent gets fiercer. And compensation structuring is increasingly mimicking the salary innovations in the US.

Land Rover has been ranked higher than many big global brands like FedEx, Huawei, Heineken, Pizza Hut, BOSS, Nokia, Gap and Nintendo.

The fifth edition of the Business Today-YES Bank Best CFO awards recognised India's top financial brains, who successfully navigated their companies out of a difficult year.