    After a head of state caused considerable damage to the reputation of Swiss banks in the mid-1980s, they established a process to screen PEPs. Expand PEP and name the head of state.

The Strategist Quiz (#153)

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Timothy Lee is the President of GM International Operations and is the epitome of clarity of thought. He has crafted a business strategy for each country and he uses the three letter word often &ndash; win. But there is a slight problem that he is facing with &ndash; the Indian automotive market. &lsquo;There is extraordinary competition in India and we have to really dig deep to win there&rsquo;, he says.

Sunshine in Chevrolet land

    The idea for the name of this company came from a report on TV about football players taking ballet lessons to improve their balance and coordination. Identify the founder and the company.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#152)

Star India&rsquo;s flagship entertainment channel, Star Plus, has gone in for a makeover with a new logo and tagline &ndash; &lsquo;Rishte Wahi, Soch Nayi&rsquo; (old relationship, new thinking).

Star Plus goes in for brand reinvention

Actor Akshay Kumar will soon be preaching you the virtues of taking loans against gold. From today, the Bollywood star will endorse Manappuram General Finance and Leasing, part of the Manappuram Group, which is spending Rs 100 crore as its advertising budget only on a single product (gold loans) for the current financial year.

Gold shines in advertising mart

If the Euro crisis and bleak markets have been worrying you, then Don Ward, founder and owner of the Comedy Store is standing by to turn your misery into laughter, literally.

Comedy Store set for India act

A packed sports calendar for 2010-11 has convinced consumers to take home a digital set-top box.

Action hots up inside the box

There are few gadget makers who would openly declare that they are &lsquo;for women only&rsquo;, but Motorola, Micromax and Alcatel are saying so with their new mobile phones. Their bold designs and unique looks are bound to catch your eye and won&rsquo;t even dent your pockets.

For the square and savvy

FIFA 2010 is also a war between the world&rsquo;s two largest brands.

Adidas versus Nike: Who will score?

The jury is out on Spicejet&rsquo;s new owner Kalanithi Maran&rsquo;s proposal to change the name of India&rsquo;s second largest low-cost carrier at a later date. While some think the move doesn&rsquo;t make sense, others like Ogilvy &amp; Mather South Asia Chairman Piyush Pandey says it would not make much of a difference provided the process is handled well.

Spicejet name change plan divides experts

Very few seem to be taking the council seriously even after 25 years of its existence.

ASCI in search of relevance

This is the 124th edition of The Championships, as they are called.

Grass & others stories

You may not visit Johannesburg during the World Cup, but if you do, you&rsquo;ll find that the city has emerged as one of South Africa&rsquo;s most vibrant tourist destinations.

Johannesburg detour

As Indian food reinvents itself, we could do with more Bourdains.

Bourdain vs Bourdain

A perfect smile does have an effect on your heart, but not quite in the way you think.

Take that smile to heart

I like playing football. I last played in middle school when our physical education classes required us to have a stab at every kind of sport, and football was my favourite. I offered to play attacker (we called it centre forward), but the coach seemed to think of me as more of a defender; it isn&rsquo;t perfectly clear to me why, but I&rsquo;m nothing if not a cooperative team player type.

The drink that cheers

The fear of being written off keeps many senior executives from revealing an ailment.

Medical reports - bane or boon?

&ldquo;Is there anything, I wondered,&rdquo; Tim Parks writes in A Season With Verona, &ldquo;is there really anything more important than football?&rdquo; As a million vuvuzelas across the world agree with him, Nilanjana S Roy picks four unusual books about the beautiful game, the fans, the players, the thugs and the pure lunatic addictiveness of it all.

It's my life!

Check with somebody who has played a role in a takeover or defended a takeover. The rush of adrenaline is incomparable. Men and women go into a huddle for days together: promoters, executives, financiers, investment bankers, legal experts, communication specialists and lobbyists. It is like an army camp in times of war. One in ten deals may reach its logical conclusion. If successful, there are rewards aplenty for all. Defeat can devastate. The drama is always intense.

The battle for Arcelor

Two translations of classics of Bengali literature make them more widely accessible.

Letters from Bengal

Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and the Williams sisters will be the main draw, yet again.

Wimbledon: A preview

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