The only one with the coveted family name to be heading a group business, Noel N. Tata is seen as one of the more likely candidates to step into Ratan Tata's shoes. But has he done enough?

V.N. Dalmia, Chairman, Leonardo Olive Oil, is inspired by The Godfather.

Here are excerpts of a small Q&A with S. 'Kris' Gopalakrishnan, MD & CEO Infosys.

Here's a look at the people, places and products doing the rounds these days.

Deciding on the tax rates is the most simple conceptually, but probably the most contentious, with all the states on one side and the Centre on the other.

Motivation works best when it is customised to the situation and the individual.

A few middle-rung B-schools have started to make their presence felt, which is only good news for the teeming MBA aspirants.

By carving a niche for themselves, the IITs are beginning to make a mark in management education too.

Unless America’s business schools make radical changes, society will become convinced that MBAs work to serve only their own selfish interests.

Colors ups the stakes in general entertainment by getting Amitabh Bachchan onto a reality show in a bid to establish a decisive lead.

Is it worthwhile to explore a career in the government after B-school? A sampling of B-school bureaucrats answer an emphatic yes.

Here are excerpts of a small Q&A with Sanjiv Goenka, Vice Chairman CESC & RPG Enterprises.

The following behaviours are powerful individually, but taken together they drive performance and growth in a way that has a significant effect on long-term results.

Today, Thyrocare Technologies, the company Velumani founded, is valued by outside investors at Rs 500 crore and has many private equity suitors thanks to the returns.

The RBI's recent figures show a 5% drop in the number of cheques processed in 2008-09, but a smashing 28% growth in retail electronic clearing. And the credit can probably be given to one man: Bikramjit Sen.

He had no clue about the high-technology world of post-production and visual effects when he got into the business together with four friends in 1995. Today, Namit Malhotra's company controls 60 per cent of the Indian market.

His pony-tail with the famed yellow butterfly bow may have gone, but not his chutzpah. Patanjali ‘Patu’ Keswani, 50, Chairman & Managing Director, Lemon Tree Hotel Company, refuses to let his age temper his radical thinking.

West Bengal’s Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had once upon a time hoped to bring in the big bucks by exhorting a lethargic bureaucracy to “Just Do It”. He failed.

There are people who know what they are going to do in life right in college. Virendra D. Mhaiskar is one of them.

Acquiring Havells for the princely sum of Rs 10 lakh in 1971, he moved up from being a trader in electrical equipment to a manufacturer of switchgear.