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Articles in September, 2007 issue of Business Today

• Tower Power Telecom operators are hiving off their infrastructure into separate companies, which are commanding heady valuations. Why are they worth so much?
  by Anand Adhikari
• A Battle of Two As elsewhere in the world, Airbus and Boeing remain the two big aircraft vendors in India, but a few smaller players are also angling for a share of the market.
  by Kushan Mitra
• Trends
  by Aman Malik; Anand Adhikari; Balaji Chandramouli; Bibek Bhattacharya; E. Kumar Sharma; Kushan Mitra; Manu Kaushik; Pallavi Srivastava; Rishi Joshi; Rishi Joshi; Shamni Pande; Mukul Rai
• True-blue Corporate Warrior
  by Krishna Gopalan
• Shake-out In Textiles The rising rupee and unbridled competition from China and Bangladesh have forced players like Gokaldas Exports to sell out. What does the future hold for the textile and garment exporters?
  by Manu Kaushik; Nitya Varadarajan additional reporting by Anusha Subramanian; Rahul Sachitanand
• Make Mine Subprime Even as bankers in the US run scared of subprime borrowers, those in India are going out of their way to woo them. Why? Blame it on the booming economy.
  by Shalini S. Dagar
• Business News
• Riding On Retail The emergence of large retail chains has come as a boon for SMEs. They are freed from the hassles of marketing their products, and retailers get ready suppliers for a range of items.
  by Kapil Bajaj
• A Premium On Experience Schools like ISB only admit students with prior work experience. The IIMs, too, have started 'PGPX' courses. How are these post- experience programmes faring, and what are their advantages?
  by Pallavi Srivastava (A BT-Nielsen Study); E. Kumar Sharma additional reporting by T.V. Mahalingam
• Current News
• Justice At The Doorstep India's first mobile court begins with high expectations and, surprisingly, meets them as well.
  by Saumya Bhattacharya
• A Deal For Survival Indian brokerages are roping in foreign partners to compete in a market that's both booming and fiercely competitive.
  by Mahesh Nayak
• Drive, Printed Circuit, Treadmill
  by Manu Kaushik; Muscles Mani; Kushan Mitra
• On The Retail Trail UP farmers back corporates as Mayawati halts Reliance Retail's bandwagon.
  by Saumya Bhattacharjya
• Alluring Careers, Market Movers, Help, Tarun!
  by Manu Kaushik; Tarun Sheth; Saumya Bhattacharya
• Beyond Bengal A clutch of mid-tier Bengal-based companies like Linc Pens, Xenitis and Khadim, among others, are going national. Can they succeed in the bigger arena in the face of cut-throat competition?
  by Ritwik Mukherjee
• How The House Came Down Lending in the US housing market to people with poor credit profiles took the wind out of Wall Street--and has resulted in money being sucked out of markets worldwide.
  by Mahesh Nayak
• Transition Time Twenty-three years after re-inventing the Indian watch market, Titan Industries wants to morph into a retailer selling everything from jewellery to prescription eyeglasses. It's also expanding its global footprint and banking on its new ve
  by Rahul Sachitanand
• How We Ranked The B-Schools
  by A BT-Nielsen Study
• The ISB Challenger It doesn't yet have a fancy campus or the heft of the Indian School of Business, but the Bala V. Balachandran-founded Great Lakes Institute of Management wants to be India's best B-school for one- year MBAs.
  by Nitya Varadarajan (A BT-Nielsen Study); Shalini S. Dagar
• India's Best B-Schools IIM-Ahmedabad once again retains its top perch, but there are some surprise entrants in the Top 15. What's happening? As much as the B- school grads, recruiters are hunting for the best bargains. A BT- Nielsen Study
  by (A BT-Nielsen Study)
• Premji's Global March In less than two years, Wipro's Azim Premji has snapped up 11 different companies, mostly abroad. Why is the tech czar in a tearing hurry? It's all part of his grand plan to make the soaps-to-software Wipro a truly global corporation
  by Rahul Sachitanand; Venkatesha Babu
• Wind Under Their Wings With low-cost carriers becoming part of full-service airlines, there's hope that the industry will soar into the profit zone. But too many things can still go wrong.
  by T.V. Mahalingam; Kushan Mitra
• B-Schools as Brands
• The Global Itch More and more B-schools are thinking global affiliations or a presence overseas to stay relevant in a borderless marketplace.
  by Pallavi Srivastava (A BT-Nielsen Study)
• Mumbai Schools: Campus City With four institutes in the Top 15, 10 in the entire list, and three new entrants, Mumbai is every wannabe MBA's Shangri-La.
  by Krishna Gopalan (A BT-Nielsen Study)
• Dream Chasing
  by Amit Mukherjee; Anusha Subramanian; Pallavi Srivastava; Shalini S. Dagar; Shamni Pande; Rahul Sachitanand
• A Chronicle of Our Times N.K. Singh's book delights and disappoints in equal measure.
  by Arnab Mitra
• Current News
• Essentially Entrepreneurs B-schools are no longer content with just producing MBAs and are now actively grooming those with entrepreneurial talents.
  by Pallavi Srivastava (A BT-Nielsen Study)
• Chasing The Gravy Train Financial services and consulting are the favourite career choices of B-school grads. Marketing takes a back seat.
  by (A BT-Nielsen Study); Anusha Subramanian
• Urban Vision The best municipal corporations are not those of Mumbai or Delhi or Kolkata. Rather, some of the most innovative and efficient users of resources are the civic bodies of cities like Visakhapatnam, Surat and Hyderabad.
  by Anand Adhikari additional reporting by Manu Kaushik
• Wipro's Way Ahead
• Wanted: Better Infrastructure Overcrowded and inadequate terminals, delayed flights and a lack of space for parking planes are just some of the problems plaguing the Indian aviation sector. The good news is that things may begin to change for the better f
  by Kushan Mitra
• The Sound Of Youth The radio bug is spreading on campuses.
  by Nitya Varadarajan; Saumya Bhattacharya additional inputs by Riwik Mukherjee
• A Tale of Two B-Schools Delhi's two best-known B-schools, FMS and IIFT, have dropped in our rankings. But that's not because they have gotten any worse; it's just that their competitors have become better.
  by Rishi Joshi (A BT-Nielsen Study)
• High School Unique infrastructure and teaching methods, a track record of quality placements and an enduring aura make IIM-Ahmedabad India's best B- school in Business Today's 10th annual rankings.
  by T.V. Mahalingam (A BT-Nielsen Study)
• First Movers In The Second Tier Few marketers can afford to ignore the non-metros, but there are those who are seeing the virtues of starting with the small towns. The big cities can wait.
  by Anand Adhikari
• Man on the Move
  by Anand Adhikari
• Money News
  by Clifford Alvares; Krishna Gopalan; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Rishi Joshi
• The B-School: Fact Sheet
  by A BT-Nielsen Study
• Living Up The MBA Dream If getting into an IIM is tough, then getting the job of your dreams is tougher. Here's one grad who managed to do just that, and a year on is still happy with the choice he made.
  by Pallavi Srivastava (A BT-Nielsen Study)
• "This is a once-in-a-Generation Opportunity" The market for semiconductors in India will almost double to $5.49 billion by 2009, says a new Frost & Sullivan report. What does that mean for the local chip industry? BT brought together a p
  by Venkatesha Babu
• Drive, Printed Circuit, Treadmill
  by Manu Kaushik; Muscles Mani; Kushan Mitra
• Jobs Boom@Internet, Help, Tarun!
  by Tarun Sheth; Manu Kaushik
• Punctilious Premji
  by Krishna Gopalan; Kushan Mitra; Pallavi Srivastava; Rahul Sachitanand
• Foreigners On The Campus The India story has had an interesting spin-off--foreign students are trickling in to study at India's leading B-schools.
  by Pallavi Srivastava; reporting by E. Kumar Sharma; Ritwik Mukherjee (A BT-Nielsen Study); Tejeesh N.S. Behl
• The Second Sex This book makes a rational case for giving women who take family- related career breaks a second chance.
  by Saumya Bhattacharya; Arnab Mitra
• Money News
  by Clifford Alvares; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Rishi Joshi; Mahesh Nayak
• The Thrill Factories Running amusement parks is no child's play. It takes smarts, hard work and a bit of luck, as investors across India are discovering.
  by E. Kumar Sharma; Nitya Varadarajan; Rahul Sachitanand; Ritwik Mukherjee; Manu Kaushik
• Beyond the Horizon Private Indian carriers are keen to get a piece of international travel, simply because it's a growing market and that's where the money is.
  by T.V. Mahalingam; Kushan Mitra
• From Japan With Love Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently visited India with a delegation of 200 CEOs. On his agenda were plans to develop the $90- billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. Will this result in a torrent of Japanese FDI in India?
  by Amit Mukherjee
• MBAs With A Difference These are people who turned their backs on successful and cosy corporate careers to chart out their own future.
  by Krishna Gopalan (A BT-Nielsen Study)
• "We want to connect the unconneced"
  by Kushan Mitra