Despite the joint CEO experiment not coming off in several high profile cases globally, Chairman Azim Premji is betting on the model to unify Wipro’s IT businesses and spur growth. He is rather confident that the teams are ready and the timing is right. BT's Rahul Sachitanand finds out whether the new arrangement will work.

Business Today’s league of extraordinary managers—25 young guns, aged 40 or under, who are blazing a trail up the corporate ladder.

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He closely follows football, loves to read and is taking his baby steps towards becoming a collector of Discworld memorabilia. Ambareesh Murty, an alumnus of Delhi College of Engineering and IIM Calcutta, replaces Rajan Mehra as Country Manager of eBay India. Mehra is moving out to pursue an entrepreneurial role in venture capital space.

Buoyed by a rapidly growing domestic market, MNC IT services players are ramping up headcount in a big way.

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Be it Infosys, Wipro, Satyam or HCL Technologies, the push for growth in geographies other than the US is gathering steam. The Indian IT industry has been reducing its dependence on the US and is likely to continue doing so. Indian IT firms hiring abroad'TCS not hit by US subprime crisis'

From #5 to #2 is a big jump in any rankings—more so for HSBC, which has powered ahead on the back of sheer growth in deposits and profits.

John Derkach, Managing Director and Head of Costa Coffee, did not look very happy when asked about his age.

India Inc. is in the growth mode. The massive opportunity has, however, brought along excessive workload and unrealistic targets. Result: the workforce is falling prey to burnout.

As Indian IT companies continue to move up the value chain, they are realising that it’s no longer sufficient to have just a large India presence.

After reading 'We want to be FMCG’S No. 1' (BT, December 2, 2007), one comes to the conclusion that progressive organisations committed to excellence, the world over, pursue a vision.

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.

It’s a trend that’s increasingly becoming prominent. Multinational corporations (MNCs) that have been in the country for years and years with precious little to show for their efforts are finally beginning to make the big moves in a local market that’s hit a tipping point.

How tough is it to strategise for a company that sells everything from supercomputers to blade servers to plain vanilla software services—a company that’s more than a century old and has a market capitalisation of over $150 billion?

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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.

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Sitting in his Chennai office, Rafeeque Ahmad, Chairman, Farida Group, a leather shoe exporter, is a worried man. The appreciation of the rupee against the dollar has severely eroded the profit margins of his company, forcing him to contemplate drastic measures like reducing his workforce.

When he announced his decision to resign as the CEO of Infosys in April this year, many people expected Nandan Nilekani, 52, to step away from the spotlight.