Under Indra Nooyi PepsiCo wants to become a smarter and healthier food and beverages company. Here's the story on how India is at the vanguard of that transition.

The resilience of India Inc. during the economic downturn has won it the top position in a global survey of confidence in corporate leadership.

The Thirteenth Finance Commission makes some radical—but highly desirable and doable—prescriptions.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...so wrote Dickens ages ago but his words hit home even today.

I am willing to bet that every businessman in India, irrespective of sector or size, lost something in the global financial meltdown.

An economic slowdown—that's what it was in India—isn't necessarily a time to batten down the hatches, as India Inc.'s brightest leaders reveal in this package on \"What I Learnt in the Downturn\".

The jobs are back. Will hiring gain momentum in 2010?

A war for talent, gravity-defying salaries and skyrocketing training budgets marked India's job market in the first decade of the millennium. All these will intensify in the next.

Cross-border acquisitions is one way for Indian businesses to attain world size and scale. But let's also not underestimate the ability of domestic consumption to create scale and global class corporations, too. Suman Layak writes.

A new generation of entrepreneurs is at work across India, but several parts of the ecosystem need to be put in place to ensure their success.

As farmers graduate from mere cultivators to investors, it will change what they grow and what we eat.

Though the decade began with a bug scare and ended with a scandal and a slowdown, positive events were plentiful through the first 10 years of 21st century. BT identifies 10 milestone events, and what they meant.

Dennis Hwang, 31, Google Inc.’s webmaster, is better known for the logos he designs for the company’s homepage.

Carol Ann Bartz looks a lot younger than her 61 years, which is surprising given that since coming out of semi-retirement in January this year.

Be it pushing the envelope at their businesses or throwing themselves into a social venture or getting behind the camera at Bollywood, passion unites these rising daughters in India Inc.

Women are rapidly storming workplaces that were until recently male bastions.

They are instrumental in hiring top talent for India Inc. BT profiles the leading ladies of executive search.

The recession, downturn or whatever you call it, has dented most kinds of lists - lists of billionaires, lists of most valuable companies, lists of top recruiters and so on.

Defining power is a huge challenge. Defining powerful women is a bigger challenge. Having taken on this challenge for seven years, we have reasons to believe that we know more than others about how much women have come to influence and inspire business in India.

If you thought you knew all about chocolate, think again.