This book explores how a chronically loss-making, state-run enterprise was transformed into a money machine—offering key lessons to even the best-run private companies.

In her 28 years at ICICI Group, Shikha Sharma has earned the reputation of the woman with the Midas touch, making a success of every division she has started.

Turning current business challenges into leadership development opportunities will ensure faster bottom-line impact, and accelerate the development of future leaders, say Faridun Dotiwala and Gautam Kumra of McKinsey.

IT, ITES worst-hit; Healthcare and Pharma in welcome uptick.

The often unseen cost of attrition, voluntary and involuntary, can be staggering for organisations. Here's your primer on good and bad leavers.

Most problems that companies face can be traced back to the failure of the management and the top leadership of those firms. So believes Dr Ashok Ganguly, one of India’s foremost management experts and a recent Padma Vibhushan recipient.

Better pay packets for senior managers come at a premium in 2009.

The eighth India Today Conclave provided a fertile setting for cross-pollination of ideas and thoughts.

Most companies prefer to stand still during a slowdown but, as a clutch of players in financial services have shown, there’s no better time than now to turn the heat on the competition.

Deepak Shantilal Parekh is almost as famous a brand as HDFC, the institution that he has helmed for decades. This is probably why the government decided to call on him to help sort out the Satyam mess.

Strategies to fight the downturn can be effective only if they are communicated well to the employees. Here’s how a few companies are doing it.

It can’t be easy being the CEO of a company whose erstwhile promoter is in jail, whose cash position is uncertain and whose clients and employers appear poised to fly the coop.

It’s time to be bold, think big and make a profound shift—that’s the prescription of a five-member panel of experts on how to haul the IT industry up by its bootstraps.

After Bangalore, technology is focussing on other Indian cities.

Jagdish Khattar recounts his bumpy ride at Maruti’s wheel when BT asked some industry veterans like him to share how they survived severe crises in times of economic slowdown. Job loss: Are you next?5 Lakh to 50 LakhThere’s life after layoff...Dealing with your first slowdownTime to talkCampus droughtUnited we stand

Infosys wants to be among the top three information technology services firms in the world. Its business strategy suggests this will not happen soon.

Many corporate leaders say faith in God and their spiritual beliefs have helped them cope with hard times. Can it also help a business grow, make CEOs more focussed on their jobs and help a company in times of economic slowdown? Shalini S. Dagar finds out.

Managers are racking their brains for strategies to beat the slowdown. But hotshots remain hotshots. We present 5th listing of India's young and happening executives.

The Rajus’ fascination with real estate might have strangled the golden goose that was Satyam.

Shooting a movie on the streets of Mumbai is the ultimate test for a director. It requires patience, aplomb and an innate ability to deal with random incidents of chaos—all of which Danny Boyle apparently carried out, unruffled and as cool as cucumber.