As three instances show, there is no one-size-fits-all formula for succession. Here is how Indian business families are going about it.

PricewaterhouseCoopers faces its toughest test in its 138 years in India—partners pulling away as it builds back its cred. Here's how it is at the inner circle of India's top audit firm.

Though the decade began with a bug scare and ended with a scandal and a slowdown, positive events were plentiful through the first 10 years of 21st century. BT identifies 10 milestone events, and what they meant.

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

The failure of Satyam’s independent directors has exposed the ineffectiveness of the policy.

Satyam’s auditors and independent directors failed to catch on to Raju’s scam. Auditors Pavan Kumar Vijay and R. Ramakrishnan, working with BT, show how dodgy numbers were ignored all along. Puja Mehra reports.  'There is some connivance in Satyam fraud' Satyam fraud shameful: Prem Chand Gupta  The great Satyam robberyHow funds are siphonedThe maze that is MaytasLiving on the (pl)edgeConfessions of auditorsAudit: Elusive independence'With XBRL, you can’t hide'When your boss does you inStruck by scams, stuck with stockFooling the shareholdersRipple effect

Ramalinga Raju began his entrepreneurial journey in software way back in 1987. He was a meticulous strategist who was fuelled by a burning desire to make it big. He didn’t know where and when to stop. E. Kumar Sharma reports.  'There is some connivance in Satyam fraud' Satyam fraud shameful: Prem Chand Gupta  The great Satyam robberyHow funds are siphonedOn the trail of fraudThe maze that is MaytasLiving on the (pl)edgeConfessions of auditorsAudit: Elusive independence'With XBRL, you can’t hide'When your boss does you inStruck by scams, stuck with stockFooling the shareholdersRipple effect

Investor activism more than independent directors can keep managements in check.

Sir Adrian Cadbury was probably the first to enshrine the \"Code of Best Practices for Corporate Governance\" in 1992 at the behest of the London Stock Exchange.