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.

A clutch of CEOs resorted to pay cuts in a tough year. Not all head honchos, however, were in such a Spartan state of mind.

For more than a decade, Vijay Govindarajan has influenced thinking at Fortune 500 companies and top B-schools with his ideas on strategy and innovation.

In a year in which growth wasn’t easy, some of India’s biggest groups restructured their businesses to unshackle value. Will such re-jigs work in the long run? Virendra Verma tells more.Performance of companies The industry leaders Most valuable pvt sector companies - 1 to 500 Most valuable pvt sector companies - 501 to 1,000 India's most valuable companies - public sector Index of companies ranked Methodology

How much you gain from the recovery will depend on two things—the strength and shape of the revival and your company’s deeds during the downturn.

The Co-founder of Financial Technologies wants to create a global network of exchanges that cuts across asset classes. At the same time, he is chasing upstream and downstream opportunities that range from depositories and payment gateways to information vending. Is Shah biting off more than he can chew?

The shareholders, of course. The government can help by enforcing greater disclosure on the part of companies and higher literacy among shareholders. It must not dictate the salary, though.

R. Mukundan, who took over at the helm of Tata Chemicals when the global credit crisis was peaking, has been able to pull off something many CEOs have been unable to: Manage global acquisitions made in boom times.

Wall Street may be coming back from the brink a year after it collapsed, but a clutch of one-time hotshot investment bankers has few regrets about bidding adieu to the greed-is-good culture to plough a new furrow.

iGATE has shown the world that LED lighting can be used to illuminate office space. Others are beginning to follow suit.

On September 2, 1969, even as the world was celebrating man’s footprints on the moon, another “giant leap for mankind” was taking shape in a small lab inside the University of California — the Internet was being born.