Best of the Lot ; BT Receives Many Responses to Its Case Studies. below Is...
BT receives many responses to its case studies. Below is the best one on Diageo (November 25, 2012).Susmita Somjit, Group Business Director at IMRB International, wrote:Opportunities abound in emerging...
View ArticleStill Steaming Hot ; the Consumer Electronics Market May Have Slowed Down,...
Gaurav Shinde has been on a shopping spree. The 25-year-old from Mumbai, who began working with Google in Hyderabad a year ago, has just splashed out on the latest flat screen LED TV, a tablet and a...
View ArticleYalla Arabia ; despite Its Problems, the Region Has Immense Business...
The Arab World UnboundBy Vijay MahajanJossey-BossPages: 408 Price: $39.95Think of the Arab world and the images that immediately come to mind are those of political turmoil, armed conflicts, religious...
View ArticleGreen Hurdles Drive Highway Projects off Course ; Many Road Projects Are...
*In the magazine story below that went to press on January 11, BT wrote GVK Power & Infrastructure had issued a notice to exit the Shivpuri-Dewas highway four-laning project. On January 14, the...
View ArticleGlocal Healthcare Systems: Nursing Bharat ; Glocal Healthcare Systems,...
GLOCAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEMSLOCATION: KolkataBUSINESS: Health-care in rural, semi-urban areasFOUNDED IN: July 2010LED BY: Dr Sabahat Azim COOL QUOTIENT: Runs five hospitals providing low cost, high...
View ArticleFor Genes That Fit ; Navigene Genetic Science Was Cofounded by Rishi Dixit...
NAVIGENE GENETIC SCIENCELOCATION: MumbaiBUSINESS: Genetic diagnostics and researchFOUNDED IN: August 2012LED BY: Rishi Dixit, Vrushali JoshiCOOL QUOTIENT: Screens babies to detect genetic defects...
View ArticleWill Taxing the Super-Rich Help India's Fiscal Health? ; Increasing Taxes on...
It is a question millions of Indians are asking ahead of the 2013/ 14 Budget to be unveiled at the end of February: will Finance Minister P. Chidambaram increase taxes on wealthy Indians to tame the...
View ArticleFor Your Treatment Only ; the Company Has Stirred Much Debate in Scientific...
MITRA BIOTECHLOCATION: BangaloreBUSINESS: Biotech/cancer researchFOUNDED IN December 2009LED BY: Mallik Sundaram, Pradip K. MajumderCOOL QUOTIENT: The company's technology platform, Oncoprint, analyses...
View ArticleGoing the Distance, Cheaply ; Aurus Network Provides the Tools for Video...
AURUS NETWORKLOCATION: BangaloreBUSINESS: Online distance learning infrastructureFOUNDED IN: July 2010LED BY: Piyush Agrawal COOL QUOTIENT: It charges far less than other such service providers,...
View ArticleEdutor Technologies: Bookless in the Classroom ; Edutor Technologies Created...
EDUTOR TECHNOLOGIESLOCATION: HyderabadBUSINESS: Digital learningFOUNDED IN: August 2009LED BY: Ram Gollamudi, Co-founder and CEO COOL QUOTIENT: An interactive solution for school students and teachers...
View ArticleA Super-Foolish Idea ; Why Imposing an Additional Tax on the Super-Rich Will...
It is becoming increasingly fashionable to tax the super-rich. The new French President, Francois Hollande's main election plank was to levy a 75 per cent tax on the super-rich. This has resulted in a...
View ArticleOut of the Box: India's Coolest Start-Ups ; with More Funding Options...
Business Today's 2009 listing of the "Hottest Start-ups" (March 22) featured two bespectacled 26 year olds peering into the camera from behind a pile of books and cartons. Their company was then less...
View ArticleTaking Back Immigration ; the US Presidential Election Has Deep Implications...
Within hours of US President Barack Obama's re-election, a powerful belief took hold: overwhelming support from Latino voters had helped to secure his victory. Suddenly, the Republican Party, long...
View ArticleOn the Retreat ; Peugeot Seems to Have Shelved Its Sanand Plans, but This...
French auto giant PSA Peugeot Citron was supposed to be the third of a triad of auto majors in Sanand, Gujarat, along with Tata Motors and Ford Motor, but Europe's second-largest carmaker appears to...
View ArticleA Tall Order ; the Fourteenth Finance Commission Is Asked to Insulate the...
It is no secret that the state of the Indian economy has Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his team deeply worried. The UPA government wants to take urgent steps to revive it - in particular, address...
View ArticleBe a Smart Investor ; Bet on the Right Sectors to Make Money in the Stock...
In 2012, Indian markets outperformed their global peers to deliver 26 per cent returns, quite unexpected at the beginning of the year. This is despite the virtual collapse of the manufacturing sector,...
View ArticleLaying Psyches Bare ; Companies Are Increasingly Relying on Psychometric...
Only 24, Delhi student Prashant Navin Gupta has already had a taste of what many senior managers did not experience in their entire careers: a psychometric test. But the student at Delhi's Indian...
View ArticleEmart Solutions India: Online Brand Managers ; Emart Was Set Up in July 2009...
EMART SOLUTIONS INDIALOCATION: MumbaiBUSINESS: Creating and managing e-commerce platforms for brandsFOUNDED IN: July 2009LED BY: Aditya Bhamidipaty, Srikanth ChunduriCOOL QUOTIENT: Has found a niche in...
View ArticlePeople Business ; Starring: Amit Kumar, Vanitha Narayanan, Shravan Talwar,...
Great Track RecordThe six years Amit Kumar spent as a civil servant working with the Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) proved the perfect launchpad for his subsequent career in the private sector....
View ArticleLeaderspeak with Armin Bruck ; Armin Bruck, Managing Director, Siemens Ltd;...
Armin Bruck, Managing Director, Siemens Ltd; CEO, Siemens South Asia ClusterMy leadership styleDelegativeParticipativeAuthoritativeThe political leader I admire the mostMahatma GandhiThe business...
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