    The B-school that bears this person&rsquo;s name recruits about a third of its students from outside the business world. He helped inspire the megachurch movement and acted as an informal adviser to the Girl Scout movement in the US. Identify him.

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The IT major is working with a host of Indian companies in emerging sectors to enable them to improve efficiency and cut costs &mdash; spelling both good business and sound investment for the future.

IBM goes desi

Priya Paul is credited with turning Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels around after she took over the reins in 1990. She runs six boutique five-star hotels under the Park brand &mdash; derived from the chain&rsquo;s first location at Park Street in Kolkata &mdash; in Kolkata, New Delhi, Vishakhapatnam, Navi Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, and a luxury cruiser called Apsara in the Kerala backwaters. Three more hotels are expected to commence operations soon, one each in Hyderabad, Pune and Kolkata. Most of these have a downtown location &mdash; a distinct advantage for business travellers. Paul has tried to add an element of design and create well-known restaurants and fun spaces. The closely-held company has grown so far on its own cash, though Credit Suisse bought a small stake (between 10 and 15 per cent) in mid-2007 for $55 million. A public offer could happen in the next few years. Paul tells Bhupesh Bhandari her strategy so far and the road ahead.

'We've always watched our cost structures'

Sara Lee Corporation&rsquo;s move to focus on its core food and drinks business in the US has altered the portfolio equations in the company permanently. Its body-care business, with key brands such as Radox, Sanex etc, is now in the custody of rival Unilever. Its air-care business, represented by another biggie Ambi Pur, has gone to another giant Procter &amp; Gamble.

Sara Lee: In Godrej custody

The debut was subdued as competitors Pepe Jeans and Arvind Brands&rsquo; Lee managed a faster youth connect. It took another six years for Levi Strauss to get its act together in India with the path breaking campaign &ndash; &lsquo;dangerously low&rsquo; &ndash; and a stronger distribution network.

Innovations give Levi's the right fit

That&rsquo;s right; everybody thought the Tata Nano would sweep all the automotive awards this year. The Nano started its winning innings with the Indian Car of the Year 2010 award and, as we go to press, the chances of the world&rsquo;s cheapest car collecting more honours remain extremely high.

And the winner is...

Another year is ending. For many it has been an annus horribilis &mdash; certainly for those involved in the hospitality business (no mistake about it: wines are very much part of it), things were bad. The &ldquo;quadruple whammy&rdquo; of the global recession, terrorist attacks, an adverse dollar exchange rate and higher prices saw miserable hotel occupancy rates and a concomitant falling-off in business to vendors.

Cheers to the end!

The shop shelves are starting to fill up with fine waters, each claiming to be better and &ldquo;purer&rdquo; than the other. Gargi Gupta dips into what&rsquo;s available.

Taste the waters

It surely took a long time coming, but now that it has, it&rsquo;s got top clearance from us. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to our Bike Of The Year 2010 &mdash; the Kawasaki Ninja 250R! While there was an impressive list of opponents to the Ninja, none of them could handle going toe-to-toe with the Japanese warrior. And it wasn&rsquo;t just its bright green colour either.

BS Motoring Bike Of The Year 2010: Kawasaki Ninja 250R

Faiza Seth of Casa Forma, a UK-based luxury interior design firm, is a brands buff. She recently launched her own jewellery line, called Soham. Now Seth has gone a step further with Soham for Kids, an orphanage in Hyderabad which will look after the needs of homeless, abandoned children.

Brand value

THIS YEAR will be remembered as the beginning of the Magnus Carlsen era. Carlsen is not yet world champion. In fact, he can&rsquo;t be, earlier than 2011-12. However, the world championship looks inevitable, even if it's tempting fate to say it.

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In its fifth year since inception, the leading automotive magazines in India, in association with JK Tyre, presented the latest iteration of most credible and significant awards of the country - Indian Car of the Year (ICOTY) and Indian Motorcycle of the Year (IMOTY). The awards have been instituted to bring the auto industry in India at par internationally in recognising their efforts.

Extreme winners

The Nano is a small car from a big idea. The people&rsquo;s car attained immortality the moment it was unveiled at the Auto Expo in New Delhi, causing a seismic shift in the automotive world. The rest of the world&rsquo;s automakers drew in their collective breaths when it was announced that Tata was going ahead with producing the car. Then they all scrambled to go into that unknown territory that Tata Motors has already bravely ventured into.

BS Motoring Jury Award 2010: Tata Nano

There&rsquo;s some confusion about whether to treat this December 31 as the end of the noughties decade or whether it should properly be next year. Most people seem to be treating this one as the end of the decade, but there&rsquo;s enough sense in the argument that 01 is the first year of a decade and 10 the last, to dilute their confidence. The result is that there don&rsquo;t seem to be that many wild and decadent party plans. Many seem to revolve around heaters and blankets and hot chocolate or wine.

Glass half full

Highlights of 2009 in international art sales &mdash; still big money, but more conservative collecting.

The choicest morsels

Harindra and Shailendra Singh have worked to their strengths and around their differences to make Percept a success.

Two-gether

The Pylones store in New Delhi is as funky and colourful as its products.

A neon number

Whether a one-night hook-up or a long-running romance, a relationship without marriage rarely requires lawyers.

Lawyers out of the woods

A rare collection of photographs highlighting the close ties between India and Bhutan since the treaty of 1949, are on display at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi. Bhutan: An Eye to History (December 23-January 31) features the photographic work of Jigme Singye Khesar Namgyel, the fifth Druk Gyalpo or king of Bhutan.

Many colours of art

A hundred and fifty years after photographer James Waterhouse charmed Nawab Sikander Begum of Bhopal to sit for him, an illustrated tome on the encounter, and other Indian trysts, enthralls Gargi Gupta.

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People only want to be alone together. They need time to meet and talk. They want to find themselves through a moment of love.&rdquo; Thus is born the guest house called the &ldquo;Four Seasons&rdquo;, Delhi&rsquo;s love nest for everyone, nestled among the Lutyens bungalows.

Room for love

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