Business India Specials
Indian's Highest Paid Executives. (Issue dated December 27, 2010).
How many zeros in that?
How do top salaries fare in an era of conspicuous corruption?
They are getting fatter, thank you. Ministers get cuts. ceos get hikes; Naveen Jindal, who has emerged at the top spot this year with a salary of `69.75 crore, got `48.63 crore last year.
Jindal was No. 5 in 2009. He replaces Anil Ambani,who has moved out of the ethereal regions.Brother Mukesh Ambani has also slipped a trifle from 19 to 21 because of a reduction in commission paid.
Businessman of the Year 2010. (Issue dated January 10, 2011).
Essar United
The Ruia's are well on the way to ride the next wave of growth.
Shashikant and Ravikant Ruia (better known as Shashi and Ravi Ruia) enjoy game fishing. They head out into the deep seas, very opportunity they get, for days on end sometimes, hoping to reel in a big catch. Just last September, the brothers, with their wives,vacationed in Spain, cruising across the Mediterranean Sea every morning for a week to catch a few hours of leisurely fishing.
It’s how they enjoy spending time together. “We chill,” says Shashi. The largest fish he’s caught is a Blue Marlin in Mauritius, 52 kg, which hangs stuffed, proudly in their home built on the sea, across from Marine Drive, in south Mumbai.
Best Bank 2011. (Issue dated October 2, 2011).
Change Agent
There is lot going on behind the scenes at India's second largest bank.
In times of uncertainty bankers return to basics – shifting strategy from raising funds in the markets for onwards lending to retail low cost deposits from the public. Smaller Indian banks struggle to meet such targets, but it’s a different ballgame at larger psu banks altogether. When Kasargot Ramachandra Kamath, chairman and managing director,Punjab National Bank, kicked off a Savings Fund Campaign last month, it rushed his 57,000 employees to the field.
Best B-Schools 2010. (Issue dated October 4, 2010).
The flat world MBA
As courses and curricula head towards a mean,the culture on campuses makes all the difference
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