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40 years ago... and now: How M&M was driven to innovate

The seventies' oil shock forced Mahindra group's flagship to innovate for staying in business; that started the company's evolution into a technology disruptor, whether through in-house R&D or ser

40 Years Ago...and now: Brand new, always

The endorsement career of India's megastar Amitabh Bachchan displays his relevance in diametrically opposite roles and product categories

40 Years Ago...And now: The rise, fall and rise of credit cards

This business got off to a shaky start but the advent of credit bureaus de-risked it

40 Years Ago... And now: Ranbaxy grew with liberal regimes, moving out of family control

Ranbaxy tasted success for the first time in the 1960s with its tranquiliser, Calmpose

40 Years Ago... and now: Riding the services wave

Arun Nanda, chairman, Mahindra Lifespaces, & chairman, Mahindra Holidays, says the diversification into the services business was a well-thought-out plan based on what new India would need

BS@40: In the year 2055 ...

Industry leaders on where they see the Indian economy 40 years on

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