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R Jagannathan: POT, Hori and that seventies' show

Business Standard emerged from the ashes of a failed English daily and its early days demanded as much expertise in horse-racing and negotiating the intricacies of the hot metal press as in editing

R Gopalakrishnan: The ascent of management

Control rather than freedom, direction rather than participation, productivity rather than creativity, in today's context it was unbelievable how companies were run in the seventies

40 Years Ago... And now: L&T - The graveyard of corporate raiders

Engineering conglomerate fended off three corporate raids but emerged stronger

Uday Kotak: Now, wait for the next Big Thing

India is a great motion picture rather than a static photograph, as the evolution of the financial sector over the past four decades has shown

N R Narayana Murthy: From bureaucrats to boardrooms

India has made a remarkable journey from a top-down system of economic decision-making to one that unleashed our entrepreneurial spirits but the next big jump lies in enhancing the quality of our tale

40 years ago... and now: Britannia has crowned many as 'biscuit king'...

...but their reign has been tumultuous as the company has seen compelling battles for ownership

40 Years Ago...and now: Growth benefits rich more?

40 Years Ago... and now: Necessity is the mother of innovation

Bharat Doshi, non-executive director, Mahindra Group, explains how the Group survived the oil crisis of 1973 with a simple innovation - replacing its Jeep's Hurricane engine with a customised version

40 Years Ago...and now: Home loan: A tale of three institutions

HDFC, the pioneer, ICICI, the game-changer, and SBI, the original teaser, turned the market on its head

Tribute to a saint who did miracle with wheat

The work of Norman Borlaug, who helped save billions from starvation, is worth recollecting on his death anniversary, especially as opposition to gene-modified crops mount

40 Years Ago...and now: Earning respect for the craft

Mohammed Khan, co-founder of one of India's largest ad agencies, Rediffusion, talks about how the business has changed

40 Years Ago... and now: ITC struggles to kick tobacco

The conglomerate adopted an unremitting focus on diversifying from the mid-seventies but the exercise has not been without controversy and the results have been mixed

40 years ago...and now: Lowest returns, consistently popular

40 Years Ago...and now: Utterly self-sufficient

The creation of the Amul brand and its famous mascot gave a rural revolution a durable competitive edge

40 years ago...and now: Cereal yields disappoint

40 Years Ago...And now: From outcry to just a click

Brokers trade over the terminal and with just a click of a mouse, buy or sell shares

40 Years Ago...and now: Marked variation in literacy

Through the past decades, India has made considerable progress in enhancing education opportunities

40 Years Ago...and now: Unsmiling Lalita ji to celebrating stains

40 years ago...and now: How Tata Steel weathered the MRTP Act storm

Company's production began to rise in the 80s, when restrictions were progressively relaxed

40 Years Ago... and now: From 70% to 30% peak I-T rate