Anil Agarwal's Vedanta: Resource Crunch ; Has Anil Agarwal Gone Too Far, Too...
In the Sattari taluka of Goa, barely 34 km from the inviting waves of Calangute beach, there is a village called Pissurlem. In many ways, it is a microcosm of the challenges that the $14-billion...
View ArticlePlaying on Different Pitches - Nita Ambani ; Nita Ambani Took One More...
Nita Ambani took one more definitive step in her journey from being the wife of the richest man in India, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, to being his business partner, in late 2011, when...
View ArticleMidas Touch- Ekta Kapoor ; Balaji Telefilms Joint Managing Director Ekta...
Balaji Telefilms consolidated its position as a successful production house for both television shows and films in 2011/12. The company not only took prudent financial decisions - it swung to a net...
View ArticleOn Par with the World's Best - Preetha Reddy ; Preetha Reddy, Managing...
The primary responsibility of a health-care provider is to offer uncompromised clinical excellence to patients. To achieve that, we at Apollo Hospitals embarked, about six years ago, on a mission to...
View ArticleLife's Always Been Work - Kalpana Morparia ; Kalpana Morparia, CEO, JPMorgan...
The big turning point in my career was when I joined ICICI Ltd in 1975. That led to the complete transformation of an individual who, until then, had no purpose to life and had to be pushed through...
View ArticleOn Record/Politics of Reform ; We Need to Contain Subsidies as Money Doesn't...
We need to contain subsidies as money doesn't grow on trees No government likes to impose burdens on the common man Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, in a televised address to the nation I cannot accept...
View ArticleToo Many Cooks ; the Indian Mobile Market Grew at Breakneck Speed. but Now...
Is the dream run over for mobile operators in India? This is the question posed by many, with the Indian telecom market being described as one of the toughest in the world. The second largest wireless...
View ArticleMachine Girl - Arathi Krishna ; Arathi Krishna, Joint Managing Director of...
She dirties her hands at least twice a week on the shop floor. She loves operating machines. "My coworkers in the factory have stopped seeing me as a woman," says Arathi Krishna, Joint Managing...
View ArticleIn Search of New Horizons - Schauna Chauhan Saluja ; under Its CEO Schauna...
The quirky website of Parle Agro seems more like that of a boutique advertising agency than of a consumer goods company. It is in tune with CEO Schauna Chauhan Saluja's stress on innovative thinking...
View ArticleDeal Queen - Archana Hingorani ; the CEO of IL&FS Investment Managers, the...
Archana Hingorani's has seen many stock-market peaks and troughs in her career. No wonder the CEO of IL&FS Investment Managers, the private-equity firm that manages assets worth $3.2 billion,...
View ArticleReading the Fine Print - Shobhana Bhartia ; Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson and...
The media was the one business, of the many my family was involved with, which really fascinated me. From an early age, I would come up with ideas for our newspaper Hindustan Times. I would bounce...
View ArticleMade in Infosys ; How the Tech Giant Helped Ace Chef Jean Michel Jasserand...
He had knocked around the world quite a bit - Australia, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Dubai, Egypt and Hawaii in the United States - working in hotels and restaurants. But Jean Michel Jasserand, now 51,...
View ArticleHow Different Things Work ; the US Federal Reserve Has Embarked on Another...
Easing the Pain The US Federal Reserve has embarked on another round of quantitative easing (QE3) to stimulate the local economy. The move has profound implications for India as well. What is QE3? When...
View Article'Ultimate Luxury Is like a Universal Language' ; Yves Carcelle, Chairman &...
Yves Carcelle, Chairman & CEO of Louis Vuitton Malletier, the most valuable and most counterfeited luxury brand in the world, was recently in India to open the company's store in Chennai - its...
View ArticleSmoke Signals ; Cigarette Makers Could Benefit as the Number of States That...
Gutkha may give consumers a buzz, but its manufacturers have got a headache. Recently, the Delhi and Gujarat governments announced a complete ban on gutkha products and paan masala containing tobacco...
View Article18th Annual Prudential Global Volunteer Day
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Investment Business Weekly -- On Saturday, October 6, more than 20,000 Prudential employees and their families and friends will participate in the company's 18th...
View ArticleWorking out Solutions - Aruna Jayanthi ; the India CEO of the Paris-Based IT...
Aruna Jayanthi, 49, has a gruelling schedule. The India CEO of the Paris-based IT services company Capgemini reaches home every day by 7.30 pm and gets back to work at 10 pm, answering e-mails and...
View ArticleLender's Pride - Zarin Daruwala ; despite the Tough Environment, Daruwala,...
Indian business is going through a difficult time, but the woman in charge of corporate lending at the country's second-largest bank remains optimistic. "It is a difficult operating environment because...
View ArticleTalent for Spotting Talent - Chiki Sarkar ; Chiki Sarkar Has Proved Her...
Since she joined Penguin Books India (PBI) as publisher 14 months ago, Chiki Sarkar has proved her ability to spot talented authors and handle business. PBI published about 240 titles last year and is...
View ArticleAd-Ding Accounts - Lynn De Souza ; Lynn De Souza, Chairman and CEO of Lintas...
Lynn de Souza, Chairman and CEO of Lintas Media Group, is a soft- spoken yet tough professional who has spent three decades in the media industry. The head of India's third-largest media agency says...
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