The best managed companies are also very successful companies, but the opposite is not always true. A Business Today and Ernst & Young study identifies what leading practices India's best companies adopt to outperform industry and competitors.

Investors love it for its vision, customers adore it for its innovation and new product development and, between all that, the Birlas of Grasim Industries find the time to more than give back to the community.

The 13th Business Today-Honda Pro-Am of Champions’ eastern leg saw some keen competition among Kolkata’s corporate bigwigs.

Our youth leaders must establish themselves more as ideating ones rather than as iconics.

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The biggest and the most credible domestic rating agency in India, CRISIL—owned by Standard & Poor’s—has sounded alarm bells for India Inc. CRISIL’s new-found concerns are two-fold.

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 new industries and businesses taking off, the war for top management talent has pushed CEO salaries to record levels. But the fact is, not every CEO is getting paid obscenely and certainly not as much as what some CEOs in the US take home.

By helping some of India's mega-corporations make global-size acquisitions and raise billions through public issues, deal makers are making hay. In the first half of 2007, the top 10 investment banks collected some $441 million in fees. The going can only get better.

It is difficult to slot the multifaceted Mark Bouris, 51. A chartered accountant by profession, Bouris, Executive Chairman, Wizard Home Loans, has written a book on wealth creation. To know more about the likes of Bouris read on.

M&M, HDFC, Aditya Birla Nuvo and others all have subsidiaries and associate companies that promise to outshine them in the near future.