A few wholly-owned subsidiaries of Larsen & Toubro have been quietly mopping up chunky stakes in businesses that are related to those of the group.

How the global slowdown is reshaping competition from emerging markets.

A clutch of Indian conglomerates is keen to grab a piece of the Indian defence pie. So, what’s stopping them?

Despite the appalling gaps in the delivery mechanics—cold chains, warehousing, processing centres and logistics—there is enough today to make entrepreneurs tackle specific projects in the farm-to-the table value chain. Entrepreneurs and investors are making most of the business opportunities that abound in the farm-to-fork value chain. Shamni Pande reports.

Pay top dollar for the best, and go easy on the rest—that seemed to be the motto at the player auctions for the second season of the Indian Premier League.

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.

BT asks the who’s who of India’s corporate world—as well as some professionals and leaders from other fields for good measure—to jog their memory and recall the best advice they ever got. What the advice was, who gave it to them and when, and how it helped them.

Indian IT companies are scrambling to get into the media and entertainment space.

Alice Schroeder’s biography of the Oracle of Omaha unveils the human being behind the financial genius, says Dipen Sheth

As a working woman myself, it gladdens my heart to know that all of these businesswomen have not only successfully broken through the glass ceiling, they have also proven themselves to be as professionally smart and competent as the best business leaders in the corporate world.

They span generations and are there in every field, from biscuits to banking, from HR to hospitals. Denied entry into a male bastion, they create another industry. They are the most powerful women in the corporate world.

Drug firms are doing what it takes to differentiate them.

Aggregating Indian films and soaps is big biz in the West. Consultancy firm Ernst & Young (E&Y), in a report estimates the value of Indian content sold outside the country—films and television content—at over $200 million

The most innovative companies don't do different things, they just do things differently. And that seems to make all the difference.

Barriers to innovation remain, but the most innovative companies have realised that \"innovation\" is not just about developing new products and services but, more fundamentally, about discovering new ways to create value. A Business Today-Monitor Group study profiles the most innovative Indian firms.

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.

Sovereign funds are the latest rage in global financial markets. Most recently, such governmentowned funds (hence, the ‘sovereign’ tag) from Singapore (Temasek), Kuwait (Kuwait Investment Authority), and South Korea (Korea Investment Corp.) were responsible for bailing out America’s ‘subprime-hit’ banking giants such as Citigroup and Merrill Lynch.

Anil Ambani’s Reliance Power has the most aggressive plans of all power players and investors are willing to repose faith in the premium for the Ambani surname. K.R. Balasubramanyam finds out whether Reliance Power has bitten off more than it can chew. Reliance Energy to consider buyback of shares Who will get Reliance Power bonus?Reliance Power wants allotment dues before bonus offer

In mid-October, at the annual general meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), Chairman Mukesh Ambani talked about five “fundamental strategic shifts” that were under way at this petrochemicals & refining Goliath.