A bleak future awaits India's retail chains
With govt still not keen on FDI, several organised retail chains will find it difficult to fund expansion. Pranab's trump card
Going by available indications from North Block, Mr Mukherjee may like to do a Chidambaram when he presents the Revised Estimates on February 27, 2010 Public spending on healthcare should be raised
Big global pharmaceutical firms seeking to buy into prominent Indian generic players is, in fact, a vindication of the Indian pharmaceutical story which began with the decision by Indira Gandhi to rein in the cost of medicines and allow process and not product patents. A good tool to predict a trend reversal
A bar reversal pattern is a good tool to predict when and where a trend will double back. 5 great business books to read
There are thousands of 'business' books adorning hundreds of bookstore shelves across the world, and new ones keep being written practically everyday. So given this problem of plenty, how do you select the best business books to read? Well, here's help.... Tips to pick the right workplace
Assess whether a company offers what you need to do at various career stages. 'Being an entrepreneur makes you a better person'
Go ahead and be an entrepreneur! Don't keep saying, I want to be an entrepreneur and one day, I will be one. There is no some day; just go out and chase your dreams, says Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan. Divestment without a purpose
Only strategic sales can serve the purpose of disinvestment, by freeing PSUs from govt control. New-age brain drain
The 'always on' multi-tasking approach to work reduces efficiency levels - a new study suggests ways around it. Loan offers lend colour to the festive season
It is that time of the year when banks and finance companies lend color to the festive season by rolling out the red carpet for customers. Time for Anil Ambani to apply moral codes to himself
Whether it was the issue of the treasury stock (which came about when Reliance Industries Limited and Reliance Petroleum merged), or the dependent nature of so-called independent directors of RIL, or the opaque structuring of conflict-of-interest deals, Anil Ambani came out with guns blazing, accusing his older brother Mukesh of trying to diddle the shareholders of the company their father had built. Do Indian CEOs overpay themselves?
Eventually it boils down to whether Board compensation committees whose job is to fix salary levels have the power to question the CEO, especially owner-CEOs. Where are we in the recovery?
An indication that consumer incomes are stabilising is visible in the demand for residential housing Vavasi: A giant killer in India's telecom arena?
Not too much is known about the middle-aged Arifuddin who is Vavasi's major shareholder, except for the fact that he is a civil engineer from Karnataka and started the group around a decade ago. Natarajan Chandrasekaran : A CEO with a difference
The newest CEO in the Tata group brings an aggressive pace and style to India's largest IT consultancy firm. An IITian's open letter to the prime minister
'If the government cannot provide the best resources to IIT faculty, it has no right to expect the best research either,' says Santosh Ansumali. MapmyIndia: The successful business of digital maps
MapmyIndia has the first mover's advantage but with players like SatNav Technologies, Reliance ADA group and Google, the competition is hotting up. How fresh is Reliance Fresh?
Everything is a deal-breaker at Reliance Fresh. Is the Indian market overvalued?
It would be incorrect to assume that the markets are cheaper when the Sensex is at 15,000 or that they are more expensive when it is at 20,000. The man behind the Air India strike
The former Indian Airlines pilot won a good deal for colleagues protesting a pay cut; but others question whether the victory was good for the airline. Good news for home buyers
The new legislation will replace opacity with transparency India Inc's labour pains
The Pricol and Graziono cases are extreme ones, but there has been a steady rise in the number of worker disputes.