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Articles in December, 2007 issue of Business Today

• Small Agencies Big Pitch ; The hot-shops are back. And, unlike in the nineties, there's plenty of restless talent going around--and plenty of business for the taking, too.
  by Shamni Pande
• ALLCARGO ; Profiting From Pain Points
  by Amit Mukherjee; Mahesh Nayak; Manu Kaushik; Pallavi Srivastava; Rahul Sachitanand; Ritwik Mukherjee; T.V. Mahalingam; Tejeesh N.S. Behl; Anand Adhikari
• Slugfest of the Minds ; The country's best managerial talent-to-be jived their minds and skills with each other at the 6th Business Today-Aditya Birla Group Acumen 2007 West and South Zone finals.
  by Tejeesh N.S. Behl And Rahul Sachitanand
• Backpacking with Hill Shepherds ; On a trek in the Garhwal Himalayas, BT's Anusha Subramanian comes back with lessons in micro-financing and community-owned tourism.
  by Anusha Subramanian
• MNCs' Second Wind ; A number of global majors are finally going the whole hog in India.
  by Amit Mukherjee; Anand Adhikari; E. Kumar Sharma; K.R. Balasubramanyam; Manu Kaushik; Nitya Varadarajan; Pallavi Srivastava; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shamni Pande; T.V. Mahalingam
• Southern Shock
• BART BECHT CEO RECKITT BENCKISER: "Our Focus Is the Key to Our Success"
  by R. Sridharan And Pallavi Srivastava
• Beauty And The Beach ; Kushan Mitra snagged an invite to attend the last leg of the Kingfisher calendar shoot in the Andaman islands. Lucky man!
  by Kushan Mitra
• The Man Who Would Be King
  by Amit Mukherjee
• The Best MF Tax Savers ; It's not too late to plan your taxes. Here's how to get started with mutual fund tax-saving schemes.
  by Anand Adhikari; Clifford Alvares; Manu Kaushik; Nitya Varadarajan; Tejeesh N.S. Behl; Mahesh Nayak
• Instant Green Nirvana ; Landscaping gets a new twist with fully-grown anytime, anywhere trees.
  by E. Kumar Sharma And Manu Kaushik
• Barry Bateman
  by Brian Carvalho And Mahesh Nayak
• Think Change
  by Amit Mukherjee And Anand Adhikari; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shamni Pande; Rahul Sachitanand
• Consumer Kane ; The rise of capitalism has weakened democracy, argues an American professor.
  by Swapan Seth
• Makeover at Manipal ; From inducting professionals to private equity, the Manipal Group is preparing its education and healthcare businesses for the big leap.
  by Rahul Sachitanand
• MANUFACTURING'S VANISHING JOBS ; Millions of jobs in the manufacturing sector could vanish due to the dearer rupee hitting exporters across industries. Will things get worse before they get better?
  by Rishi Joshi And Nitya Varadarajan
• Building Bridges ; As India Inc. racks up acquisitions overseas, it's come square up against a new challenge: managing across cultures. Here's how industry vanguards are dealing with it.
  by Manu Kaushik And E. Kumar Sharma; Kapil Bajaj
• The Best Mouse Ever ; Logitech's new MX Air takes the computer mouse to a hitherto unthinkable height.
  by Kushan Mitra
• FMCG & Pharma: Down But Not Out ; Investors have been lukewarm to the FMCG and pharma sectors. But the future looks brighter than the immediate past.
  by Anand Adhikari
• It's a Roller Coaster Ride ; Riding the bull will not be a cakewalk as stocks don't come cheap anymore. What should you avoid now?
  by Clifford Alvares; Shalini S. Dagar And Nitya Varadarajan; Tejeesh N.S. Behl
• Growth Driver
  by Rahul Sachitanand
• Two Killer Moves for Your Abs
  by Muscles Mani And Manu Kaushik
• Emulate ITC's Model
• Eyeballing Microsoft
  by Kapil Bajaj; Manu Kaushik; Saumya Bhattacharya; Shalini S. Dagar; Rahul Sachitanand
• Big Brand, Big Ideas
  by Bibek Bhattacharya
• Health Insurance: High on Hopes ; A large population and pent-up demand are fuelling the growth of health insurance in India, but commercial health insurance is still some way from becoming a profitable business.
  by Kapil Bajaj
• Deconstructing the Motorola Q9h ; Despite certain shortcomings, the latest offering from Motorola is a very good device.
  by Kushan Mitra
• The True Cost of Debt ; When credit is used wisely, it helps build assets. But one wrong move can jeopardise your finances, and long-term goals.
  by Clifford Alvares And Nitya Varadarajan; Rishi Joshi; Manu Kaushik
• Loud, But We Want the Games ; The N81 has arrived, N-Gage sadly has not.
  by KM
• i-Catching? ; If you can't beat Maruti, copy its strategy.
  by Kushan Mitra
• Choppy Season Begins ; There won't be any more fireworks on Dalal Street for some time.
  by Amit Mukherjee; Anusha Subramanian; Balaji Chandramouli; E. Kumar Sharma; K.R. Balasubramanyam; Kapil Bajaj; Pallavi Srivastava; Rahul Sachitanand; Rishi Joshi; Ritwik Mukherjee; T.V. Mahalingam; Tejeesh N.S. Behl; Clifford Alvares
• Bumps Ahead ; The economy is slowing down, but the long-term story remains intact.
  by Amit Mukherjee; Balaji Chandramouli; Bibek Bhattacharya; E. Kumar Sharma; K.R. Balasubramanyam; Kushan Mitra; Mahesh Nayak; Manu Kaushik; Pallavi Srivastava And Anand Adhikari; Shalini S. Dagar; Shamni Pande; Rishi Joshi
• Surge Stocks: The New Boomers ; Some of the biggest gainers on the stock market recently have been companies that most of us have probably never heard of. Which are these companies, what do they do and what's so hot about them?
  by Rishi Joshi
• IT : The Doubtful Darlings ; The top three IT companies are still among the 10 most valuable companies in India, but D-Street's appetite for IT stocks in general seems to be on the wane.
  by T.V. Mahalingam And Pallavi Srivastava
• Tulsi Evangelists ; It's called the elixir of life. Not without reason: Farmers are getting a new lease of life cultivating tulsi the organic way.
  by Pallavi Srivastava
• How Safe Is India's IT Network? ; A few months ago, hackers brought Europe's most wired country, Estonia, to its knees. India's IT network is rather modest in comparison. So, who would bother messing with it, right? Wrong.
  by Kushan Mitra
• A Long Way Home ; India's Silicon Valley runs into a peculiar problem--IT couples, among others, are queuing up for adoption, but there are no kids at agencies.
  by K.R. Balasubramanyam
• UPA's Social Sector Scorecard ; Taking advantage of an upbeat economy the central government has launched or revamped major schemes aimed at rural India. But have they really worked for the aam aadmi? Shalini S. Dagar finds out
  by Shalini S. Dagar And E. Kumar Sharma
• Ga Ga Over Golf ; Corporates of all shapes, sizes and standings test their golfing as well as networking skills at Round One of the 13th Business Today- Honda Pro-Am Championship.
  by K.R. Balasubramanyam
• The Dough In Distribution ; Providing financial services to loaded Indian consumers is cool. What's even cooler is distributing financial products--and every bank and broker worth its net worth is aiming for a slice of the estimated Rs 20,000-crore pie.
  by Anand Adhikari
• Muscles in Middle-Age
  by Muscles Mani And Manu Kaushik
• On the Birla Bandwagon ; Why Ajay Srinivasan quit the global stage and headed home.
• Builder Of Fortune ; The Godrejs' property business has the potential to propel the group- -so far best known as a maker of soap--into the elite league of India's most valued businesses.
  by Mahesh Nayak
• This Also, That Also ; One of India's best-known consumer market watchers shatters a few myths.
  by Shamni Pande
• Of Twists, Tweaks and Spider Curls
  by Muscles Mani And Manu Kaushik
• Retail: Riding on a Promise ; Despite the hype (and paranoia) around it, retail on D-street remains a one-stock story--that of Pantaloon.
  by Clifford Alvares
• Bharti Airtel vs Reliance Communications: The Race Is on ; Both companies are riding the telecom boom and growing fast, but there's little to suggest that the #2 will overtake the leader anytime soon.
  by Mahesh Nayak
• Rupee @ 30? Oh Dear! ; The government will need to take some tough calls soon to tackle the rising rupee.
  by Amit Mukherjee; Anand Adhikari; Arnab Mitra; Balaji Chandramouli And Bibek Bhattacharya; Kushan Mitra; Mahesh Nayak; Manu Kaushik; Rahul Sachitanand; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shamni Pande; Kapil Bajaj
• GROWTH PANGS: Beat the Burnout Blues ; India Inc. is in the growth mode. The massive opportunity has, however, brought along excessive workload and unrealistic targets. Result: the workforce is falling prey to burnout.
  by Amit Mukherjee And Ritwik Mukherjee
• Strategy Iconoclast
  by Rahul Sachitanand; Rishi Joshi; Shamni Pande; T.V. Mahalingam; R. Sridharan
• "We Want to be FMCG's No.1" ; By drawing on ITC's strengths in businesses as diverse as cigarettes to hotels to agri-business, Chairman Y.C. Deveshwar has built an FMCG machine that's become the market leader in several segments. Now, it's eyein
  by Bibek Bhattacharya; R. Sridharan; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shamni Pande And E. Kumar Sharma; Arnab Mitra
• Variety Healthcare ; Growing consumer expectations and the need for more cost-effective delivery are spawning newer models of healthcare.
  by E. Kumar Sharma And K.R. Balasubramanyam
• Blue-chip MNCs: Holding Their Own ; The booming infrastructure and manufacturing sectors have helped these multinationals maintain their impressive standing.
  by Anusha Subramanian
• Real Estate: Ringing in Gains ; Last year, only Unitech made it to the top 100 list. Several real estate companies have listed on the exchanges since then. Backed by apparently endless investor appetite, these companies gained sharply in the market capita
  by Shalini S. Dagar
• ACUMEN 2007--EAST ZONE FINALS: Playing the Mindgames ; India Inc's managers of tomorrow display the stuff they are made of at the sixth Business Today-Aditya Birla Group Acumen East Zone Finals.
  by Ritwik Mukherjee
• UTI Strikes Back ; UTI AMC is set to become the first Indian asset management company to list on the stock exchanges. The once-beleaguered company has ridden the stock boom to turn around. The question now is: will listing change its future course?
  by Mahesh Nayak
• Power Struggle ; Karnataka has hit a 'green' hurdle; environmentalists are vociferously protesting its last few mega power projects.
  by Rahul Sachitanand
• "We Prepare for the Worst Things We Can Think of"
  by Brian Carvalho And Mahesh Nayak
• Realty Show
• A Book of Small Things ; An American pollster number-sifts to zero in on some interesting trends.
  by R. Sridharan
• China Calling ; Chinese companies are hiring Indian managers--in China.
  by Saumya Bhattacharya
• Medicine Town ; A nondescript town in Kerala is turning into a healthcare hub.
  by K.R. Balasubramanyam
• The New PE El Dorado ; PE funds are pouring money into infrastructure, and real estate companies.
  by Amit Mukherjee; Anand Adhikari; Balaji Chandramouli And Rahul Sachitanand; K.R. Balasubramanyam; Kushan Mitra; Nitya Varadarajan; Shalini S. Dagar; Shamni Pande; Manu Kaushik
• India Inc. Walk the Talk ; Some remarkable facts about Indian industry's green initiatives emerge during a panel discussion on climate change.
  by Manu Kaushik
• Mobile Navigator ; The new Nokia N95 8GB comes with an AGPS-based navigation system built into it.
  by Kushan Mitra
• How We Arrived At The BT 500
• Fast Can't Last ; Real estate, financial services and infrastructure firms made hay as the sun shone on Dalal Street. But these may just be the sectors that tumble the hardest, as markets correct and return closer to fundamentals. Companies that are disti
• Auto Overdose ; There is every reason to be in the capital between January 10-17.
  by Kushan Mitra