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- Renny Thomas decided to join a consultancy rather than an investment bank or multinational after passing out from a B-school.
- For Sundeep Sikka, moving ahead is not a matter of speed but of heading in the right direction.
- Uday Sareena aims to list the ING Vysya Bank among the top five private banks in India.
- Kirthiga Reddy has redefined Facebook's mantra of staying connected.
- At 28, Viren Rasquinha retired from hockey to do something else equally challenging. He did a one year from ISB which he says was one of the finest in his life.
- Shalini Pillay has learnt to balance 80-hour weeks with the challenges of raising her 11-year-old daughter.
- Nikhil Patil calls himself a self-discovered computer graphics, or CG, artist and believes in benchmarking himself against the best in the world.
- Kavitha Nair played a pivotal role, rebranding the service first as Max and then as Hutch.
- Manish Mohnot has transformed Kalpataru Power Transmission from a business focused almost entirely on power transmission to one that provides engineering services, commodity warehousing and even infrastructure services to the railways.
- Despite being a star for the San Francisco-based networking giant, few people expect Jagdish Mahapatra to stay on for ever.
- In a relatively short time, Hari V. Krishnan has gone from working in the United States with tech major Cisco to becoming the India head of social networking site LinkedIn.
- Having started his career in Citi, Rakesh Kaul has worked in various businesses in India and the Asia-Pacific.
- Continuing with our series on India's Hottest Young Executives, we feature the Bombay Stock Exchange CEO Madhu Kannan. Of the 23 months that he has spent in India, April 2011 has been the most memorable.
- Today, we feature ASK Investment Managers' CEO Sameer Kamdar from our list of India's Hottest Young Executives. Since taking over at ASK, Kamdar has doubled the assets under management.
- Soumya Goswami's romance with food began at a young age, and not just by watching his mother cook.
- Honeywell India's Arijit Ghosh strives to customise strategies to the Indian context, and not adopt models from the United States.
- In continuation with our series on India's Hottest Young Executives, we bring to you Aditya Ghosh, president of IndiGo. His formula for success: Be accessible to employees.
- The newly-appointed CEO of HCL Infosystems, Harsh Chitale, wants to focus on fewer things and scale up the business.
- As National Creative Director at O&M India, Abhijit Avasthi leads a team of 450 creative minds.
- In continuation with our series on India's Hottest Young Executives, we bring to you Microsoft India MD Sanket Akerkar. For him, it is more important to understand and solve people-related problems than business ones.
- As Business Today unfolds its seventh edition of India's Hottest Young Executives, it becomes clear that what began as a project to record the change in Corporate India's leadership profile is today turning out to be a definitive list.
Eat right to sleep tight
Tired? In dire need of 40 winks? What you ate last night could be the reason for this. Read on as we ask experts how to eat right to sleep tight.Urban-golf: Play a cool new game
If you think your neighbourhood golf club is insufferably stuffy, joyless, and over-frequented by pretentious knowit-alls, make your own 'space' and try urban golf.Romanian witches paid taxes for their practises
Everyone curses the tax man, but Romanian witches, angry about having to pay up for their practise, recently hurled poisonous mandrake into the Danube River to put a hex on the government. Literature being an integral part of Dublin's everyday landscape, no wonder UNESCO has named it a City of Literature.Products that can increase desirability quotient
Inspired by Zenith's automatic Captain Line of the 50s, the watch has a streamlined design and is enlarged to its present day size of 40mm.Upcoming events, new releases in books, bikes and things to do this month
The new Metropol Parasol is an architectural revelation that has altered the landscape of its city.Paolo Marai, President & CEO, Vertime on his favourite books
Paolo Marai, President & CEO, Vertime talks about the books that have made him what he is today.Funky sneakers to head out in comfort
Don't let the heat bog you down. Get a spring in your step with these funky sneakers and head out in comfort.What Jean-Claude Biver likes in food, cars and gadgets
Jean-Claude Biver, CEO, Hublot Geneve, loves to take red wine and owns a Mercedes 600CL.Unconventional places to visit in London
A visit to Ye Olde England is incomplete without a round of one of Europe's most fascinating cities, London. We give you the lowdown on some of its unconventional attractions.Seven iconic summer scents for men
We bring you seven iconic summer scents for men that rule supreme. Splash on!Products which make for perfect gifts
Till a little while ago 'corporate gifting' was a concept. Today, it's a norm. Here's a holistic list of products which make for perfect gifts.Escobar: The longest bar in the country
It boasts of the longest bar in the country and is named after a Colombian druglord. Forget all that because Escobar's alfresco seating with globally infused tapas and cocktails creates just the right dining ambience.Slip away to a resort for a good break from stress
Simran Dhaliwal finds out that the only way to lose the stress of working in a big city is to slip away to a resort so private that you have to book the whole place just to go there.Digital SLR: Life through a lens
You no longer need a mega digital SLR to be able to take pictures that take the breath away.
India lags in seafood exports due to poor policies
Poorly designed policies hold back India from increasing its seafood exports, as the missed opportunity in tsunami-hit Japan shows.Fortis-SRL deal is legally watertight
The Fortis-SRL deal is legally watertight, but the jury is out on whether it is proper or not.Samsung may pip LG as top consumer electronics firm
Bolstered by rapidly climbing consumer electronic sales, particularly of flat panel displays and mobile phones, and better realisations through a small pricing premium, Samsung has equalled LG in sales and expects to end 2011 ahead of its rival by a substantial margin.Rupee refuses to buckle under rising global oil prices
The Indian currency has refused to buckle under the onslaught of rising global oil prices, thanks to a surge in exports. Myntra re-invents itself, hopes to dominate fashion merchandising on the Net.Ajay Bijli's strategy to scale up multiplex business
Ajay Bijli's stab at new entertainment zones is only to beef up his real hero - the multiplex.Pai's exit shows up the faultlines at Infosys
T.V. Mohandas Pai's departure shows up the faultlines at the hallowed Infosys.
Dr Prathap C. Reddy on his leadership style
Executive Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, Dr Prathap C. Reddy talks about his leadership style.
How different things work
Over 1.4 million electronic voting machines, or EVMs, are being used in the ongoing assembly elections in five states. But experts say that EVMs can be tampered with and need to be secured.Second airports yet to take-off
Several cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Goa, Bangalore and Hyderabad are in the process of constructing a second airport.Events behind Vodafone's ownership saga
In March 2007, Vodafone buys Hutchison's 52% stake in Hutchison Essar for $11.17 billion. The company is renamed Vodafone EssarWomen still under-represented in companies' hierarchy
Women make up a greater proportion of the corporate talent pool than before in the Asia Pacific region, but they are still under-represented in the top echelons of companiesQuote by business and political leaders
A little bit of pain now, a little bit of medicine now, with the prospect of less suffering in the future, is the way to look at it-Subir Gokarn, RBI Deputy Governor.Is India's burgeoning population a drain on its economy?
The majority feels that India's growing population is a liability. The country is expected to have a surplus workforce of 4.7 crore people by 2020. For the government, the challenge will be to ensure that its workforce has the required skills to make it employable. Cals Refineries has acquired the assets of the Hardt Group owned Cenco and Atas refineries in the US and Northern Cyprus for Rs 1,916 crore.SAB's freshly-minted music channel Mastiii
SAB's freshly-minted music channel vaults to the top of the charts.Find out the meaning of a new business word: multi-slacker
What it means: An individual who engages in unproductive activities at the workplace.Complan tops the list pf the most watched ads in March 2011
Winter is long gone and all the summer chillers are moving up on our charts, emerging as the most advertised category.Will Pension Fund Regulatory Development and Authority Bill kick-start much awaited reforms?
The PFRDA Bill will kick-start much awaited reforms.India's family businesses succession plan should be more refined
As Indian family businesses become multinational enterprises, they need to refine their succession procedures, says S. Manikutty.Market for cloud computing is strong: Microsoft Office Division President Kurt Delbene
Kurt Delbene believes the next big growth wave for Microsoft will come from a mix of solutions hosted on the Internet and the centralised use of enterprise servers popularly called cloud computing. Lokpal set-up has its own limitations: MN Venkatachaliah
Former chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah says till we don't strengthen the institutional safeguards of Constitutional democracy, no amount of curative institutions such as Lokpal, Ombudsmen and the like, will be of much use.'Jan Lokpal Bill may need to move from idealism to realism'
The solution against corruption lies in granting independence to existing agencies created to fight corruption, like the CVC, the Lokayuktas, the CAG, and the CBI.
Tips to deal with the rising interest rates
With interest rates on home loans climbing, here are some tips for borrowers to deal with the situation. Safety concerns: Government wants to to snoop emails
There is no doubt that emails and the Internet can be used as an instrument for communication by terrorists and that India has been a victim of terrorism for years. But the country has much more to gain from unfettered access than having thousands of people snoop through citizens' chats and email.
Executives must learn early how to handle power: Linda Hill
Executives must learn early how to handle power, Linda Hill tells Somnath Dasgupta.
Business leaders who made news
People in news: Kerrie Peraino, Simon F. Cooper,n Raj Nayak, Sean Covey, Simon F. Cooper
New Volkswage Passat is more environment-friendly
The new Passat might look similar and even feel the same, but look closer and it's a brand new car with great tech.
Weekly round up of news
Surendra Pipara (left) of Reliance ADAG, Unitech Wireless MD Sanjay Chandra (centre) are among the latest businessmen to join former telecom minister Andimuthu Raja in jail. Readers feel India still need to do lot on disaster management
Even as horrific images of the disaster that struck Japan continue to linger in our minds, we can just wonder what would happen if a similar disaster were to strike India. Cardiac ailments on the rise among executives
Cardiac ailments are rising among executives and should not be taken lightly.
Global companies eyeing Indian employees
More and more of them, especially multinationals resuming expansion plans that had been put on hold during the economic slowdown of 2008/09, are looking to hire Indians and post them across continents.
The transformation story of Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the only captain in the world to have tasted success in all formats of cricket, and that too in just four years. The Team India skipper likes to keep it simple, relying on instinct and self-belief to bring home the laurels.
A boat ride on the Congo river
Kushan Mitra makes a new entry in his bucket list and ticks it off immediately. A boat ride on the Congo River.
Sunish Sharma loves action
Sunish Sharma's stint at General Atlantic allowed him to gather some learnings from the downturn - to prepare for a downturn and then again prepare for the upswing too.Sanjay Sharma: The man behind World Cup trophies
Sanjay Sharma joined Swarovski quite by chance. He was living in Germany when he got an offer from Swarovski to spearhead its drive into South Asia, with the focus on India. Special: India's Hottest Young Executives
As Business Today unfolds its seventh edition of India's Hottest Young Executives, it becomes clear what began as a project to record the change in Corporate India's leadership profile is today turning out to be a definitive list. 
