Four words—complexity, inflexibility, speed and scale—set the current crisis apart from the previous ones. Robert F. Bruner offers antidotes for all four.

Institutions with a lower appetite for risk are better able to face the global financial storm. The KPMG annual Best Banks Survey is a check-point on the performance of the banking system.

Chairman Nayak’s policy of looking before venturing has made Axis Bank immune to many of the industry’s woes.

Keeping NPAs in check is religion here, but so is giving genuine defaulters a chance.

For many families, loan repayments can get rough and uneasy. So, how can one manage one’s loans better.

Vijay Mallya’s aviation business has landed in a sea of red. Mallya has a survival plan, but he may need to look at drastic options to stay afloat. K. R. Balasubramanyam and Kushan Mitra go into the details.

Woes Pakistan’s economy has fallen in and out of crisis quickly in the past. But, with its friends refusing to help, how will it pull itself out of the latest mess?

The leader isn't late. It's the others who have arrived too soon. This assurance goes to the readers who await this special issue of Business Today every year. With many publications already out with their versions of annual company listings, some of you may rightly be wondering why BT is late with this annual compendium of corporate India.

Increased government spending can help fight economic slowdown. But it won’t. And the reason is not lack of funds. What is needed is a comprehensive booster dose of steroids to resuscitate the economy. Manmohan Singh’s diagnosis is not off the mark, but the delivery is. A report by Puja Mehra.

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.

Shelly Lazarus, Chairman and CEO, O&M Worldwide, speaks to Anusha Subramanian about how the global advertising industry is gearing up to cope with recession and her views about Indian advertising and India's creative abilities. Excerpts from the interview:

The liquidity crunch has brought the spotlight back on the safety of debt. But you should be careful about where you park your money.

What can go wrong? they asked last year. Well, this year, what hasn’t gone wrong? Result: fewer foreign tourists are visiting India this year.

Movies may be the biggest part of UTV’s portfolio, but founder-chairman & CEO Ronnie Screwvala has also turned the spotlight on television, gaming and the digital medium. Screwvala has believed in multiple revenue streams and is close to achieving his goal of making UTV a 360 degree media company even as it grows at 100 per cent a year, reports Anusha Subramanian.

The job market has taken the biggest downturn in the past eight quarters.

The six start-up women chosen by BT this year are beacons of hope for thousands of women- and men?-who have similar dreams but lack a role model or simply need a prod to get going.

The 25 most powerful women had better watch out—they have some serious competition snapping at their heels. The Rising Stars range from the CEO of a foreign bank to legal eagles and marketing whiz-kids.

Who were IPL’s most, and least, valuable players? A BT-Vertebrand study answers this vexed question for the first time.

Rather than being a drag on its performance, TCS’s 100,000-plus workforce could prove to be its trump card.

After five years of breakneck growth, ICICI Bank eases its foot off the pedal.