UpFront
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The Year that Was: Rajiv Bajaj, The Comeback Kid
Bajaj Auto was down in the dumps for over a year. But after much soul-searching, Rajiv Bajaj tried a whole new strategy to take on Hero Honda. And that's now beginning to pay off
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The Year that Was: More Bank for its Buck
Under its new chief Vishakha Mulye, ICICI Venture, India's largest private equity firm, is learning to strike a balance between building an entrepreneurial culture and also tapping ICICI Bank's vast relationship network
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The Year that Was: In Business There Are No Foes, Only Friends
Sunil Mittal, chairman and CEO of Bharti Group, speaks about the deal with MTN, the challenges of a cross-border merger and life after Bharti
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The year that Was: Vikram Akula's Moment of Reckoning
SKS Microfinance is caught between the need for profitable growth and its social imperative to serve the poor. Its choices in the coming months will show which way it goes
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The Year that Was: R.K.Pachauri's Himalayan Blunder
An account of how a retired geologist took apart the alarmist climate claims of a Nobel Prize winning organisation
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Sanjoy Bhattacharyya: While Investing in Markets, Watch the Grass Grow
Punts on hot tips are suicidal, and it is wise to be prepared for the unexpected
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The Year that Was: The Broken Paddle
Flamboyance and grandeur marked out Neville Tuli as India's best-known art messiah. Today the collapse of his fund has revealed he got it all wrong
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The Year that Was: How Not To Go Global
Its slapdash manner has come back to haunt India's largest wind energy company. It is a tale of caution for those expanding abroad
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The Year that Was: What Will Infy Do After They Are Gone?
The rock stars of Infosys are getting ready to leave the stage to a new band of boys. Will Infosys be the same ever again?
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The Year that Was: The One-Man Show
Larsen & Toubro gained from having a charismatic, all-powerful leader. It was also left with a management void in the end
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The Year that Was: Call of the Nation
Inducting businessmen into governance is an experiment that has gone awry twice in the past. But that hasn't deterred Prime Minister Manmohan Singh