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Articles in May, 2006 issue of Business Today

• Copycat Woes
  by E. Kumar Sharma; Rahul Sachitanand; Shaleen Agrawal; Shalini S. Dagar; Kushan Mitra
• Stalemate With valuations at their zenith, the timing couldn't have been better for Hutchison Essar to go ahead with an IPO. So who's spoiling the party?
  by Krishna Gopalan
• No Full Stops On D-Street Last fortnight's free fall on the markets seems a distant memory, as the indices once again resume their upward journey.
  by Mahesh Nayak
• Fast Mover Advantage Riding on the FMCG revival, Dabur India wants to double sales and profits in four years.
  by Archna Shukla
• "Nothing Is Ever Done, Finished, Or Over In Any Market"
  by R. Sukumar
• First Constituency In its own lumbering way, Raebareli, the Gandhi family constituency that will soon be sending Sonia Gandhi back to the Lok Sabha, is grasping at economic opportunities and learning to side-step the political rivalry between the state go
  by K. Sai Srinivas
• A Fresh Bouquet ZEE TV is restructuring operations to unlock value in each of its four arms. It has also gained ground over its rivals in the last one year. Here's a look at what's going on in India's largest listed media company.
  by Archna Shukla
• Treadmill, All About Sinusitis, Printed Circuit
  by Kushan Mitra; Manu Kaushik; Muscles Mani
• The Deal Maker
  by Arnab Mitra
• Current All's Well That Ends... ...At least for the Aditya Birla Group, which, after buying out the Tatas, controls almost all of wireless player, IDEA Cellular. The Rs 4,406 crore the Tatas get will come in handy for their CDMA rollout.
  by Krishna Gopalan
• Trouble In Elephant Country Rahul Sachitanand visits the work-in-progress Bandipur resort of a tech-entrepreneur to find out what it is that has got the greens' ire.
  by Rahul Sachitanand
• A Sign Of The Times Like every year, salary packages touched new highs at the top B- schools. What's more interesting is that an increasing number of students spurned bulge-bracket i-banks for jobs at home or entrepreneurship.
  by A BT-Coolavenues.com study
• In The Centi-million Club MindTree Consulting is now a $100-million company. It's on a steep growth trajectory, but will have to address some areas of concern ASAP.
  by Venkatesha Babu
• Walking A Tightrope Interest rates are likely to rise slightly over the medium term, but credit flows to corporates and individuals are likely to be sustained.
  by Anand Adhikari
• The Real BPO Boom (And Bust)
• Growth Engines Or Revenue Drains? SEZs can help take the Indian economy up to the next level, but the guidelines need to be fine-tuned further.
  by Shalini S. Dagar
• Beckoning Careers, Wanted: Gurus In Corporate Advice, Help, Tarun!
  by Kapil Bajaj; Manu Sharma; Tarun Sheth; Ahona Ghosh
• How Genpact CEO Pramod Bhasin And His Team Are Breaking New Ground In BPO-land.
  by Archna Shukla
• Economics Simplified An FT columnist demystifies economics, ensuring that your next cup of cappuccino will never be just that.
  by Sanjoy Narayan
• Money From Thin Air Companies are minting money selling carbon credits, which are global certificates issued against reductions in greenhouse gases. Never before did going green make so much sense-or dollars.
  by Shalini S. Dagar
• Biyani Vs Ambani Pantaloon's Kishore Biyani has a head start, and some mind-boggling plans that extend beyond retail, but the sheer width of Reliance's retail blueprint threatens to put the maverick entrepreneur in the shade. If it works.
  by Anand Adhikari
• India's Fastest Growing Companies
  by Ahona Ghosh; E. Kumar Sharma; Kushan Mitra; Nitya Varadarajan; Pallavi Srivastava; Rahul Sachitanand; Shaleen Agrawal; Venkatesha Babu; Mahesh Nayak
• Business News
  by Anand Adhikari; Kapil Bajaj; Krishna Gopalan; Nitya Varadarajan; Pallavi Srivastava; Rahul Sachitanand; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shaleen Agrawal; Shalini S. Dagar; R. Sukumar
• New Lease Of Life With the tier-I league clearly out of bounds, Mphasis had little choice but to be acquired to stay in the reckoning. For EDS, it's better late than never.
  by Venkatesha Babu
• Money News
  by Krishna Gopalan; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Shaleen Agrawal; Anand Adhikari