There’s little literature on relationship dynamics between external CEOs and owners in family-owned companies. Now, an Amrop International study reveals that understanding and managing the “No Man’s Land”, the overlapping turfs of CEO and promoter, is key to professionalising this relationship. A report by Tejeesh N.S. Behl.

Losses in the West haven’t deterred global banks. French bank along with Citi, Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers, and Goldman Sachs are in investing mode in India.

It pays to hedge in volatile times—at least banks offering the option of investing in structured products will agree with that. And at last count there were quite a few offering this service.

Private services providers are finding gaps, plugging them and growing decent businesses in the process. Many of them aspire to be at least a billion-dollar big in the next few years. Flawless execution, however, will remain the key to realising these dreams.

If you suddenly have thousands of crores staring at you out of your bank account, the entire world becomes your oyster. That’s what industrialists Malvinder Singh (and Shivinder Singh), erstwhile promoters of Ranbaxy Laboratories, and B.K. Modi, former promoter of Spice Telecom, have landed with after selling their businesses in June.

Six years since ISRO launched a national telemedicine project to reach quality healthcare to rural India, there are four states that have “wired up” all their district hospitals. So, what has been the impact on the lives of the poor in these states?

When it rains, it floods—and one is not just talking of India’s financial capital Mumbai, which has reserved one day of the calendar for a deluge. But that’s the least of the worries for the financial hub; it’s more concerned with the never-ending slide of the realty index on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

The token increase in fuel prices isn’t enough to stem the flood of red on the balance sheets of state-owned oil marketers.

There are many stocks in the market, but only a select few make it to almost every fund portfolio. Should you invest in them?

Although stock lending has yet to gather momentum, it promises long-term investors a chance to make an extra buck from idle shares.

Hard-nosed and uber-successful tycoons like Mukesh Ambani,Vijay Mallya and others paid millions for their IPL teams and players. The revenues they earn by way of ticket sales, team sponsorships, merchandising, etc., are expected to rise each year, thus making it easier for them to become profitable as the years go by. BT's Shamni Pande and Tejeesh N.S. Behl report.

SCAM 1992 TO PATAAL LOK: TOP 10 INDIAN WEB SERIES OF 2020

The 2007 list: How are they doing?

Options and futures can help you ride out the market’s volatility—and also profit from it.

A lot of rise has happened in the oil sector during the first four months of 2008. It is booming because of rising crude prices, but not all oil and gas stocks make good investment.

The massive, but hugely fragmented, diagnostic sector is seeing some corporate action. Healthcare majors SRL Ranbaxy, NPIL Laboratories, Dr Lal Pathlab and Metropolis Health Services are consolidating their positions in the sector.

What is Ketan Parekh up to these days? Well, he’s busy trying to keep himself out of jail—rather a comedown for a man, who, barely eight years ago, must have been wondering how soon he’d earn his next Rs 100 crore or how long it would take to push the Sensex up another 1,000 points.

Armed with deep pockets and distinguished brands, some of India’s biggest mega-corps are diversifying away from their flagship businesses. Synergies do exist in most cases, but do some of these promoters run the risk of spreading themselves too thin? BT's Anand Adhikari finds out.

Rising inflation will hurt some consumers for sure, but consumption per se is growing, thanks to the wider affluence a strong economy is creating.

These are extraordinary times, not just for India but the whole world. At no time before in world history has inflation and economic downturn combined to create a “caught-between-ice-and-fire” situation. In India, rising inflation coupled with a moderating economy does signal a cyclical slowdown, but the country’s long-term growth story is still intact. An analysis by BT's Shalini S. Dagar.