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Articles in November 2006 issue of Business Today

• Nerves Of Steel Ratan Tata pulls off a spectacular $8-billion (Rs 36,800 crore) deal to buy the Anglo-Dutch Corus and pole-vaults his company into the global league.
  by T.V. Mahalingam; Krishna Gopalan
• The Money Machines They've created an additional Rs 80,000 crore in investor wealth in the first half of this year. How much farther and faster will India's IT troika-TCS, Infosys and Wipro-go?
  by Rahul Sachitanand; Venkatesha Babu
• Money News
  by Mahesh Nayak; Pallavi Srivastava; T.V. Mahalingam; Anand Adhikari
• Treadmill, Five Steps to Cut Obesity, Flotsam, Printed Circuit
  by Kuahsn Mitra; Manu Kaushik; SN; Muscles Mani
• Infosys: Incredible Infy What's the secret sauce that makes Infosys the best company to work for, year after year?
  by Venkatesha Babu
• Money News
  by Anand Adhikari; Anand Adhikari; Mahesh Nayak; Shalini S. Dagar; Shivani Lath; Krishna Gopalan
• Reinventing India Post Faced with competition and shrinking demand, the world's largest postal service tries to become a one-stop logistics shop. Can it pull it off?
  by Amit Mukherjee
• Persistent Voice of Reason Joseph Stiglitz's dream of globalisation for all, while noble, may remain just that.
  by Balaji Chandramouli
• List of companies in BT 500 and the next 500
• Covansys: A Fun Place To Work In This is one company that takes the idea of play very seriously, but still manages to meet targets with ease.
  by Nitya Varadarajan
• Setting The Bar Higher
  by Krishna Gopalan
• HCL Comnet: Young And Full Of Beans United we stand: Employee first, customer second is the company's credo HCL Comnet's human resource practices are turning out to be a model for parent HCL Tech.
  by Aman Malik
• Go Global, Carefully
• Young, And Restless Some 29 companies debut on the BT 500 in 2006, with five of them pole- vaulting into the top 100. But even more exciting are the unique business models of many of these mega-cap corporations.
  by Shivani Lath
• Shutterbug CEOs What do Indian CEOs do when they are not helping push India's GDP growth rate to ever higher trajectories. Well, several of them are very good amateur photographers. Here's a random look at their skills behind the camera.
  by E. Kumar Sharma
• How to Win The Talent War Employees have become far more demanding, bells and whistles of yore are now hygiene factors, and there's an unprecedented scramble for talent. Result: employers need new ways of managing their human capital.
  by Gyan Anjan Kaur; Padmaja Alaganandan; Saaket Arora; A BT-Mercer-TNS Survey
• Business News
• Treadmill, Six Steps to Work Healthier, Printed Circuit
  by Kushan Mitra; Manu Kaushik; Muscles Mani
• Current News
  by Anand Adhikari; Balaji Chandramouli; E. Kumar Sharma; Krishna Gopalan; Mahesh Nayak; Pallavi Srivastava; Shalini S. Dagar; Venkatesha Babu; T.V. Mahalingam
• Bound, In Silken Chains Outdated technology, domineering competition, and an inability to raise funds for expansion and modernisation could ring the death knell for the industry in Ramanagaram, the silk town of India.
  by Rahul Sachitanand
• Methodology: How We Did It It's no rocket science, but no walk in the park either.
  by A BT-Mercer-TNS Survey
• On The Trail Of The Tiger Parliament has passed an Act constituting a National Tiger Authority and a Wildlife Crime Bureau. Is it enough to save the king of the Indian jungle?
  by Kapil Bajaj; Ananda Banerjee
• India's Most Valuable Private Sector Companies
• Building A Global DNA As Dr Reddy's becomes more global, thanks to its recent acquisitions, its focus is on building matching structures and capabilities.
  by E. Kumar Sharma
• Entrepreneurship 101 Lessons in successful entrepreneurship from one who's been there and done that.
  by R. Sridharan
• High Altitude Hi-Jinx The AirJaldi Summit was billed as the world's highest wireless summit. Unfortunately, it got overwhelmed by silly talk and politics.
  by Kushan Mitra
• Unitech's Skyscraper In a little over a year, Unitech's average market cap has risen from Rs 465 crore to an astonishing Rs 14,786 crore. Can Unitech sustain the valuation?
  by Shalini S. Dagar
• Sapient: Empowering Transparently Sapient engenders loyalty by giving employees responsibility and freedom and by showing that it cares for their well-being.
  by Amit Mukherjee
• "We Are Here To Help The People And The Country's Development"
  by Krishna Gopalan
• The Surge Stocks These shares registered the handsomest gains over the last one year.
  by Mahesh Nayak
• King Of The Hill It boasts a great portfolio, great people, and adequate capital. Small wonder, ICICI Bank remains the only financial services player in the top 10 of the BT500.
  by Anand Adhikari
• Young Consolidator
  by Deepti Khanna Bose; Nitya Varadarajan; Rahul Sachitanand; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shivani Lath; Krishna Gopalan
• Satyam: Computer Services: Moving Into 'Sixth Orbit' Having gained critical mass, Satyam is creating a workplace focussed on leadership and innovation.
  by E. Kumar Sharma
• Beckonng Careers, Building Images, Help, Tarun!
  by Shaleen Agrawal; Tarun Sheth; Rahul Sachitanand additional reporing by Ritwik Mukherjee
• Take a Bow, Lady
  by Amit Mukherjee; E. Kumar Sharma; Krishna Gopalan; Pallavi Srivastava; Shaleen Agrawal; Anad Adhikari
• How We Arrived At The BT 500
• Beckoning Careers, Designing Careers, Help, Tarun!
  by Aman Malik; Deepti Khanna Bose; Kapil Bajaj; Rahul Sachitanand; Tarun Sheth; Nitya Varadarajan
• HSBC: Thank God It's Saturday At HSBC, employees work for the bank because the bank works well for them-not just at office but at home too.
  by Krishna Gopalan
• Agilent Technologies: Fun On The Run At Agilent Technologies, commitment, feedback-and loads of fun-are a way of life.
  by Pallavi Srivastava
• The Quadrants: What We Measure and Why There are four quadrants that determine the company rankings.
  by A BT-Mercer-TNS Survey
• May The Gods Be With You Suddenly, the market for Indian mythology has exploded, and consumers worldwide are lapping up stories of Hanuman, Krishna, and imaginary heroes and heroines. Result: Producers and marketers are staring at a Rs 1,000-crore market.
  by T.V. Mahalingam
• Business News
  by Amit Mukherjee; Kapil Bajaj; Kushan Mitra; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Rahul Sachitanand; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shaleen Agrawal; Shalini S. Dagar; Balaji Chandramouli
• Global, Local & Very Vocal If global growth is a seesaw, it's beginning to tilt towards India Inc. This year's BT 500 listing is an early-on barometer of that rebalancing act.
  by Brian Carvalho
• Johnson & Johnson: Living By Its Credo J&J's mission statement places the interests of its employees above those of its shareholders. No wonder people don't want to leave.
  by Shivani Lath
• Managing Employee Expectations Why are employees at just about every Top 10 company unhappy with compensation and career coaching? It's because employers aren't paying enough attention to managing employee expectations.
  by R. Sankar
• The Only P That Matters An (imaginary) HR manager from the 1980s comes out of retirement to read BT's Best Companies to Work for in India 2006 survey and visit the top 10 companies. His impressions, as told to R. Sridharan.
  by R. Sridharan; A BT-Mercer-TNS Survey
• The Next 500: Companies 501-1000
• Accidental Entrepreneur
  by Archna Shukla
• India's Most Valuable Public Sector Companies
• Employee First
• MindTree Consulting: Riding The Integrity Wave Great internal communications and zero tolerance for dodgy personal practices combine to give MindTree a small company feel, despite its rapid growth.
  by Rahul Sachitanand
• Current News
  by Anand Adhikari; Balaji Chandramouli; Deepti Khanna Bose; Kushan Mitra; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Rahul Sachitanand; Shaleen Agrawal; T.V. Mahalingam; Krishna Gopalan