Features

Recession Hits the Underworld

Haima Deshpande

There’s an eerie hush in the Mumbai underworld. Guns have made way for knives, sharpshooters for chain snatchers. Is the age of the dons over?

The Hatch

Anil B. Lulla

Between a great business idea and a successful business lies yawning uncertainty. Enter the incubators.

Curse of the Deadline

Shubhangi Swarup

It makes some people fall sick, it gives others focus. Some people hate it, others love it. What deadlines do to different kinds of people

Now Men Flaunt the Ankle

Kabeer Sharma

Trousers are getting shorter. So, is the next battle of the sexes going to be on hemlines?

B for Bottleneck

Premchand Palety

Business schools in India need to stop acting like glorified placement agencies, and start working towards creating entrepreneurs and innovators who can become agents of change.

Business Briefing 12/09

arindam

The Indian real estate market; gold prices; Dalda's image makeover; and Abu Dhabi semiconductors

Basic Instinct

Subrata Chakraborty

It’s time to turn management education on its head. Students must learn that intuition will serve them better than economic theories based on rational behaviour

It’s for Congress to Set a Dynastic Example

Dhirendra K. Jha

Jaganmohan Reddy’s CM aspirations haven’t gone down well with the Congress

The Case of Two Schools

SR Singhvi

Both IIM-A and Harvard Business School use case studies as a key learning aid. But they do it differently. A professor recounts how, from first-hand experience.