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Articles in July, 2006 issue of Business Today

• Thinking Smart A novel initiative puts smart cards in the hands of sex workers in Mysore in a bid to keep HIV at bay.
  by Rahul Sachitanand
• Money News
  by Aman Malik; Anand Adhikari; Kushan Mitra; Rahul Sachitanand; Shalini S. Dagar; Vaishna Roy; Krishna Gopalan
• Campus Cool
  by A BT-ACNielsen ORG-MARG Study
• IIM-A: The Brand Is It What makes Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad the country's best B-school year after unrelenting year? How about brand image?
  by Archna Shukla
• Current News
  by Amit Mukherjee; Balaji Chandramouli; Mahesh Nayak; Shalini S. Dagar; Anand Adhikari
• Bellary's: Iron Billionaires They have the money, thanks to the iron ore their mines produce that is worth its weight in gold, and all the things money can buy, manor- style houses, fleets of the newest cars, aircraft, even political power. Now Bellary's
  by Venkatesha Babu
• Growing From A Small Base
  by Ahona Ghosh; Aman Malik; Amit Mukherjee; Venkatesha Babu; Archna Shukla
• Turnaround Man
  by Archna Shukla
• Current News
  by Anand Adhikari; Krishna Gopalan; Rahul Sachitanand; Venkatesha Babu
• The Slow Death Of A Graveyard Even as Alang awaits the arrival of another vessel laden with asbestos, the Blue Lady, its ship breakers know that their days are numbered.
  by Kushan Mitra
• Beckoning Careers, Crunch Time, Help, Tarun!
  by Nitya Varadarajan; Tarun Sheth; Rahul Sachitanand
• Hardware Hazard Bangalore is fast turning into a dumping ground for used PCs and worryingly enough most of the recyclers are hole-in-the-wall units. Rahul Sachitanand
  by Rahul Sachitanand
• India's Most Investor Friendly Companies They are neither the biggest nor the savviest of companies. But all of them know one thing: How to keep their heads down and crank up shareholder value.
  by Krishna Gopalan; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Rahul Sachitanand; Ritwik Mukherjee; Kushan Mitra
• The Wheels They're A Changin' Food outlets and other retailers in the home delivery space are experimenting with different modes of transport.
  by Ahona Ghosh; Rahul Sachitanand; Kapil Bajaj
• Wooing The Private Power Producers Between 2007 and 2012, the government wants to add 62,000 MW of power, of which 11,000 MW is expected to come from the private sector. The question is, will it?
• Where The Stones Come Alive Most Hindu temples abroad, and some in India, too, source their statues from Shivarapatna village in Karnataka, where secrets of the trade have been passed down from generation to generation. But the current generation of stone
  by Venkatesha Babu
• The Greater Goal A collection of Sumantra Ghoshal's finest work reinforces the relevance of his contrarian views.
  by R. Sridharan
• Business News
  by Aman Malik; Anand Adhikari; Archna Shukla; Balaji Chandramouli; Kushan Mitra; Pallavi Srivastava; Rahul Sachitanand; Shaleen Agrawal; Shalini S. Dagar
• Jobs Made In Heaven Corporate America's best-known humourist on the 100 jobs you and I ought to have.
  by Sanjoy Narayan
• The Merits Of A Diverse Portfolio
• Beckoning Careers, BPO Jobs Are Hot, Help, Tarun!
  by Aman Malik; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shivani Lath; Tarun Sheth; Rahul Sachitanand
• Tricky Move
  by Anand Adhikari; Archna Shukla; Krisna Gopalan; Pallavi Srivastava; Rahul Sachitanand
• Doing Their Own Thing What kind of IIM grads do their own thing? And why? Aman Malik and Pallavi Srivastava speak to seven from recent batches who chose to be entrepreneurs to understand a still rare but growing phenomenon on campus.
  by Pallavi Srivastava; Aman Malik
• Money News
  by Aman Malik; Anand Adhikari; Kapil Bajaj; Krishna Gopalan; Nitya Varadarajan; Shaleen Agrawal; Shalini S. Dagar; Mahesh Nayak
• Current News
  by Ahona Ghosh; Archna Shukla; Balaji Chandramouli; Krishna Gopalan; Mahesh Nayak; Venkatesha Babu; Krishna Gopalan
• Business News
  by Anand Adhikari; E. Kumar Sharma; Kushan Mitra; Namita Johri; Rahul Sachitanand; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shaleen Agrawal; Shalini S. Dagar; Shivani Lath; Mahesh Nayak
• Current News
  by E. Kumar Sharma; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Krishna Gopalan
• Current News
  by ; Krishna Gopalan; Ritwik Mukherjee; Venkatesha Babu; E. Kumar Sharma
• A Big Picture Person
  by Shaleen Agrawal
• Smart Divesification
• Ambitious Globaliser
  by Archna Shukla
• Notional Worth, Real Money They've made millions, even billions for their shareholders and themselves. And here's how (and where) India's tech-billionaires are investing their money.
  by Venkatesha Babu additional reporting by Mahesh Nayak
• Let There Be Light All that the recent reforms in the power sector have managed to achieve is to arrest the slide. What is needed now are measures that move the sector forward.
• How We Ranked The B-Schools The BT-ACNielsen ORG-MARG survey polled 526 B-school 'stakeholders' across 11 cities to rank the top 30 institutes.
  by A BT-ACNielsen ORG-MARG Study
• The 'We-Try-Harder' School At 28, Pune's Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) has emerged one of India's best B-schools. And it is also the sometimes- reluctant head of a growing family.
  by Kushan Mitra
• If I Were Lord Of Tartary Sorry, you can't be. But you can get a feel of his lifestyle at several Darjeeling tea estates that are opening their doors to tourists.
  by Ritwik Mukherjee
• Beckoning Careers, Call Of The Wild, Help, Tarun!
  by Aman Malik; Rahul Sachitanand; Tarun Sheth; Kapil Bajaj
• Case Against Quotas Arun Shourie hits out at progressives and the judiciary for subverting the Constitution.
  by Arnab Mitra
• Maslow's Theory
  by Ahona Ghosh; E. Kumar Sharma; Krishna Gopalan; Rahul Sachitanand; Kushan Mitra
• Current News
  by Anand Adhikari; Krishna Gopalan; Kushan Mitra; R. Sridharan
• India's Best B-schools IIM Ahmedabad stays rock solid at #1, but there are plenty of gainers and losers in this year's survey. More importantly, the overall infrastructure at a B-school, its quality of placements and faculty mattered even more to our surv
  by A BT-ACNielsen ORG-MARG Study
• M&M'S Hidden Jewels The world knows Anand Mahindra's M&M for its tractors and utility vehicles. But guess what? A whopping 43 per cent of the group's profits come from other businesses. And tomorrow they may prove more valuable than M&
  by Brian Carvalho
• Money News
  by Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Rahul Sachitanand; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shalini S. Dagar; Anand Adhikari
• A Town That Wipro Made The journey from vanaspati to equity is a strange, sublime, and rewarding one, as residents of Amalner, a small-town in Maharashtra, have discovered.
  by Kushan Mitra
• Growing Organically The Champagne of Teas is going organic. Darjeeling planters are reinventing their iconic, but beleaguered, brand to stay ahead of the game.
  by Ritwik Mukherjee
• Current News
  by ; Anand Adhikari; Krishna Gopalan; Shivani Lath; Amit Mukherjee
• Educating The Managers Demand for executive education is soaring, and the leading B-schools have responded with some innovative programmes. As for employers, they are only too happy.
  by Shaleen Agrawal; Aman Malik
• Treadmill, All About Sleep Disorders, Printed Circuit
  by Kushan Mitra; Manu Kaushik; Muscles Mani
• "The Writing Is On The Wall... All Operators Will Be Our Clients"
  by Krishna Gopalan; Biran Carvalho
• Treadmill, Dealing with Diabetes, Printed Circuit
  by Kushan Mitra; Manu Kaushik; Muscles Mani
• Current News
  by Amit Mukherjee; Anand Adhikari; Krishna Gopalan; Shaleen Agrawal; Shivani Lath
• American B-schools
• Business News
  by Ahona Ghosh; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shivani; Venkatesha Babu; Anand Adhikari
• The B-school Fact Sheet A data sheet on the B-schools that comprise the universe of our survey.
  by A BT-ACNielsen ORG-MARG Study
• Running Out Of Water For millions of poor in India's cities and villages, it is already a daily reality. But with consumption soaring and little being done to boost supply, water threatens to become a nation-wide crisis, affecting agricultural production
  by Shalini S. Dagar
• Infosys@25: 25 Things You Still Didn't Know About Infosys
  by R. Sukumar
• Dearer Oil, Lower Growth? Not in the short term. But there's no doubt that India must find ways to insulate itself from future shocks. The question is, how?
  by Mahesh Nayak; Balaji Chandramouli
• Treadmill, Printed Circuit
  by Kushan Mitra; Muscles Mani
• India's Best B-school Profs If you are a professor, what does it take to win the respect and admiration of some of India's brightest kids? A complete mastery of your subject apart, it takes some self-deprecation and a sense of humour. Meet the nine most p
  by Ahona Ghosh
• Living It Up
  by Amit Mukherjee; Archna Shukla; R. Sridharan; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shivani Lath; Aman Malik
• Reliance Retail Unlimited Mukesh Ambani wants middle-class India to go shopping. And he is spending Rs 25,000 crore to ensure that it does that in 1,500 locations around the country.
  by Krishna Gopalan additional reporting by E. Kumar Sharma