Archive
EDITION: 03 June, 2011
Podcast
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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups
A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India
Exit Interview
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Sudhir Trehan: We Need a New View at the Top
Sudhir Trehan, outgoing managing director of Avantha Group company Crompton Greaves, tells Forbes India that CG still operates the Indian way in India and the European way in Europe
Column
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The Defining Debates
In the blinding rush for news, our belief was that our readers would primarily look upon the print edition of their trusted magazine to reflect and understand the big issues of the day
Special
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Malegam's Microfinance: The Last Laugh
The priority sector tag for MFIs could become a contentious issue in the days ahead
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The Best of Forbes India Covers - Year 2
We make a bit of a fetish of our covers. It is a crowded newsstand, so they must work really hard to get attention, but without crassness or hype, because they must appeal to a very intelligent, discerning reader: You. Here are the covers from our second year that we liked best of all
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A Look Back: Analjit Singh's Future-Proof Strategy
He had seen his family business get divided because of internal feuds. Singh has a plan to ensure that his children don't go down the same road
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A Look Back: Cloud Computing Is Here to Stay
Modern businesses need ways to stay nimble and light. Owning tonnes of hardware is not one of them. The time for cloud computing has arrived
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A Look Back: India's Biggest in Law, Amarchand & Mangaldas
India's biggest law firm has all the trappings of a family-run enterprise, including sibling rivalry. The Shroff brothers must quickly set their house in order
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A Look Back: The Incredible Change in Bihar
Nitish Kumar cracks the whip on corrupt babus
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A Look Back: The Big, Fat ID Number Project
The Unique Identity project, headed by Nandan Nilekani, is one in which the public and private sectors have come together in the spirit of a start-up
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A Look Back: How Ranjan Sharma Brings Information To Farmers
Ranjan Sharma is changing the way lakhs of farmers get credible information. In the process, his partners IFFCO and Airtel are increasing their reach in rural markets
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A Look Back: Why Infosys Needs K.V. Kamath
It was clear that N.R. Narayana Murthy's successor would have to be a bold risk-taker. We bet on K.V. Kamath and got it bang on
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A Look Back: IndiGo Engineers A Great Flight
India's airline business can't seem to make money. IndiGo is showing how to
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A Look Back: Greed Is Back On Wall Street
As Gordon Gekko returned to the silver screen after 23 years, his doppelgangers in the real world went back to their old ways
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A Look Back: By the Power of Algorithms!
Indian stock markets are increasingly turning to computers to decide on and execute trades. For once, it is the machine before the man that counts
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A Look Back: The Battle for Redfiffusion
For years ad agency Rediffussion's Arun Nanda refused to sell out to WPP's Martin Sorrell. Now Sorrell's patience appears to have run out
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A Look Back: Prashant Jain's Secret Sauce
He is the biggest and the best fund manager in the country. For the ninth year running, the fund that Jain manages is on top of the charts
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A Look Back: What Vishy Anand Can Teach You
The World Champion plays an aggressive game in front of the chess board and tries to steer clear of the politics in the world of pawns and kings
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A Look Back: How Rajinikanth Does What He Does
If anyone can make Chuck Norris look like a one-roundhouse-kick wonder, it is the southern superstar Rajinikanth. He's larger than life. His fans would have you believe, he created God when he smiled
Big Bet
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A House For Mr. Biswas: Tata Housing's Low Cost Township
Tata Housing's low-cost township on the outskirts of Mumbai isn't charity. The company may well have cracked the secret of building such homes profitably
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IBM's Adoption Plan
The behemoth is picking up fledgling, innovating firms through a structured system to provide solutions in diverse areas, and not miss the bus, again
Boardroom
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Deccan 360 Faces Turbulence
Maverick entrepreneur Captain Gopinath’s logistics venture has been grounded because he can’t seem to get a handle on operations
Defining Debates Of 2011
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Jaggi Vasudev: Spirituality and Secularism
No country lives with so many religions as India does. The conflict in the world today is between one man’s belief and another’s. It is not good versus evil as it is often projected to be
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Satyajit Das: Double-edged Dollar
An integrated international financial system certainly reduces economic sovereignty of nations, as the European Union experiment has shown. The issue is compounded by complex derivative instruments that are now arriving in developing nations like India. What is the risk that foreign capital packaged in complex instruments bring to local economies?
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Raju Narisetti: News and World Wide Web
As the Internet provided a platform for sharing news faster and wider with negligible distribution costs, the newspaper business models that leaned heavily on advertisers for revenues and an elaborate production and distribution infrastructure began to crumble
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T.N. Ninan: India's Newspaper Business is Not Disappearing Just Yet
Inflated newsrooms and the Internet caused the news business model to break down in the West
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Vijay Mahajan: Values vs.Valuations
Corporations are partly responsible for and have suffered the effects of the triad of crises — social, environmental and economic — that have hit the world since 2008. An ‘ideal’ corporation today would be one that takes care of society, employs a lot of people and is environmentally conscious
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Azim Premji: The Business of Ecology
The multiple debates over ecology are bound to be the defining issues of humanity over the next few decades. This would drive both risks and opportunities. Smart companies know that an improvement in ecology will determine economic sustainability. And whatever is ethical, whatever is good for the society, will eventually be good for business too
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Shashi Tharoor: War For Peace
Throughout history, men have waged war for power, wealth, land and occasionally over women. But rarely, except in the past two or three centuries have they gone to war to bring peace. Is peace really the raison d’etre for the wars being fought in different parts of the world? Or are the real reasons the same as history has taught us?
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Free Enterprise Vs. Regulation
Raghuram Rajan had seen the impact of over-regulation in an underachieving economy. Years later, he also saw the perils of under-regulation as championed during the Alan Greenspan era. The Eric J. Gleacher, Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business discusses the question of achieving the right mix of free enterprise and sensible regulation
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Vijay Govindarajan: Jugaad - A Model for Innovation
It is a word that has travelled from India’s hinterlands to the management lexicon. Meet Jugaad, the innovative workaround to complex problems. The problem arises when people start looking at it as a permanent solution
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Rama Bijapurkar: The Whole Six Yards
Many countries like China and Japan underwent a social engineering before they became economic powers. Those nations now have largely homogenous populations and cultures. India, however, abounds in diverse, often conflicting, populations and cultures. But there seems to be a convergence of aspiration among its people. Only the ways to achieve the goals differ
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A. Damodaran: The Despair of The Ganges
The Ganges has sustained a civilisation, including the world’s oldest continuously populated city of Varanasi. It has now become the victim of the same civilisation that bloomed in its bosom. In many ways, the majestic Ganga symbolises one of the biggest conflicts of our times — protecting the environment and biodiversity without compromising growth, development and economic progress
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Madhu Kishwar: Urbanisation And Poor
The United Nations estimates that more than 40 percent of India’s population will be living in urban areas by 2030, making it the fastest urbanising country in the world. As cities encroach upon the countryside, rural areas are facing a dearth of talent and labour. The people who migrate to urban centres, meanwhile, lead a miserable existence on the margins
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12 Big Debates That Define Our Times, Settled
Complex debates that define our society analysed and resloved by the keenest thought leaders of our time
World Watch
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Ombudsman in Countries Across the Globe
India is debating the finer points of the Lokpal Bill which will appoint an ombudsman to fight corruption and defend people's rights. We look at some other countries where such an office exists
Briefing
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Direct to My Pocket: The DTH Tug of War
DTH operators want to pay channel owners less, and their increasing clout makes them difficult to ignore
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