When 24-year-old Arvind Nagasayanam preferred Huawei China over a stint in the US in 2001, most of his peers raised an incredulous eyebrow. Not without reason, though.

Corporates of all shapes, sizes and standings test their golfing as well as networking skills at Round One of the 13th Business Today-Honda Pro-Am Championship.

As India Inc. racks up acquisitions overseas, it’s come square up against a new challenge: managing across cultures. Here’s how industry vanguards are dealing with it.

At a time when promoters are either diversifying feverishly into sunrise areas or gobbling up assets internationally, Asian Paints is doing neither. Now, the company prefers to focus on what it knows best—paints and the domestic market.

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.

Joanne K. Bradford, Corporate Vice President and Chief Media Officer, MSN, speaks on India’s place in Microsoft’s global strategy for MSN.

The market's valuation has soared to an all-time high. Now is the time to look for undervalued gems in the unfolding growth themes.

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

The Saawariya promo is really no different from hundreds of other similar trailers. The only difference: the movie has a Hollywood producer. For the first time one of Hollywood’s Big 6 studios is co-producing a Hindi film. SPE Films India, the Indian arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment has co-produced Saawariya in partnership with Bollywood producer-director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film production house.

If you doubt whether thematic or sector funds really do well, take a look at the top 10 funds in the market. Eight of the top 10 funds over the last year have been either sector or thematic funds.

India is critical to our future, says Robert R Ruffolo, 57, President, Wyeth Research & Development. That may sound like just another feel-good sound byte from a visiting foreign honcho, but Ruffolo and Wyeth have good reasons for banking on India.

After capturing a huge chunk of the outsourced financial services market, traditional IT services companies are now gunning for the healthcare and pharmaceuticals segment—the largest industry in the US and the second-largest outsourcer after financial services.

Jayesh Gandhi (name changed), Assistant Vice President of institutional sales business, exited Principal Global Opportunity Fund in January 2007. Since then, the fund delivered a 22 per cent return as against a 20 per cent of the Sensex, but Gandhi has no regrets.

Consumers always hunt for bargains and switch brands faster than they hit store shelves. It is a brave task to stand apart. Our fourth annual listing of best marketers brings a list of marketers who know consmers the best.

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

With a market value of Rs 29,000 crore and a net worth of Rs 8,000 crore, the eight-year-old Indiabulls group has sky-high ambitions. Property development and consumer finance are the current thrust areas. Retailing, insurance, banking, mutual funds, power and telecom are on the cards.

India could still make it in manufacturing offshoring.

As Indians scale newer heights of consumption, retail shelves are becoming showcases of the competitiveness (or, in some cases, the lack of it) of Indian manufacturing.

The Swiss giant has already emerged as the country’s largest cement player. How does it plan to consolidate its lead?

Forget low-cost, IBM is here to innovate.