The slowdown has forced Indian companies and international foundations to slash funding to NGOs in India, threatening the survival of some and endangering vital social programmes in the country.

The success of Tata Tea’s Jaago Re campaign may inspire many more companies to elevate their advertising to an intellectual plane.

BT asks the who’s who of India’s corporate world—as well as some professionals and leaders from other fields for good measure—to jog their memory and recall the best advice they ever got. What the advice was, who gave it to them and when, and how it helped them.

Hard-nosed and uber-successful tycoons like Mukesh Ambani,Vijay Mallya and others paid millions for their IPL teams and players. The revenues they earn by way of ticket sales, team sponsorships, merchandising, etc., are expected to rise each year, thus making it easier for them to become profitable as the years go by. BT's Shamni Pande and Tejeesh N.S. Behl report.

The simultaneous rise of China, Japan and India is posing a geopolitical conundrum.

The Kolkata-based men's readymade garments company, Turtle, has woven corporate social responsibility into its brand building by taking up a conservation project for its namesake in Orissa. BT’s Ritwik Mukherjee recounts how he felt about this brand correlation.

The cover story on HUL showcases the comeback of the consumer goods giant after a period of sluggish growth. When Nitin Paranjpe takes over the mantle as the new CEO in April, he will have a tough job on his hand.

Kudos for India’s best managed Companies (BT, March 23, 2008). The vision, virtues and values of these companies who have made it to the top of your BT-Ernst & Young study are truly admirable and worth emulating.

Tata Motors’ transformation from a domestic behemoth to a nimble and aggressive global player is unprecedented in the Indian auto industry. So, how is it managing it?

By turning its weaknesses into virtues, Bharti changed the telecom industry paradigm. Result: In a booming industry, it’s still ahead of the pack.

Led by a CEO who joined the company as a junior engineer 43 years ago, L&T is set to become India’s first professionally-managed Indian multinational.

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.

Tata Steel practically invented CSR much before the term became fashionable around the world.

Investors love it for its vision, customers adore it for its innovation and new product development and, between all that, the Birlas of Grasim Industries find the time to more than give back to the community.

Retail lending is slowing down, and its rural gambit will take time to scale up. So, ICICI Bank is betting big on its international business.

ITC’s Divisional CEOs run their businesses almost independently, and this is what fuels entrepreneurship and excellence within its portals.

With gas production and a global-scale refinery expected to come on stream in 2008, Reliance Industries is back to doing to what it does best: Creating value by creating world-class assets.

India’s Jubilant Organosys gets top rating from IFC.

The BT-Cirrus survey is in its 5th year and it is, by far, the widest in the country, with more than one million articles analysed for the minutest corporate mentions and considered.