Chairman Osamu Suzuki questions whether Tata's $3,000 car can meet standards, vowing to keep his Maruti brand working on more profitable models.
The rupee's 11% gain against the dollar has driven U.S. and European retailers to switch their orders to countries with weaker currencies.
How an Indian company plans to woo America's heartland with its fuel-efficient SUVs and pickups.
With young people and others using their phones for texting, e-mail, and Web surfing, it's an increasingly wireless way of life on the Subcontinent.
Tata Motors is hot on Renault's heels in a drive to produce and distribute the world's most affordable car in the fast-growing India market.
Harold Sirkin of Boston Consulting says rapidly developing economies, once content to copy and improve, are institutionalizing new thinking.
Pricey crude hurts in all sorts of fiscal ways -- but it could also spur crucial investment in alternative fuels.
'Attractively priced' stocks, healthy debt ratios, plus solid manufacturing prowess position Korea to profit from growth in China and the Mideast.
At India's HCL Technologies, workers get to grade the boss, and everybody can see the ratings.
The U.S. still leads the world in number of millionaire households, but maybe not for long -- household wealth is growing fastest in China.
A broken system is driving our best-educated foreign workers -- talent desperately needed by U.S. companies -- to Europe, India, and China.
Will the Indian auto giant manage to take Jaguar and Land Rover off Ford's hands?
By applying new management tools to traditional hubs of manufacturing -- such as Tamil Nadu's leather trade -- local firms boost competitiveness and quality.
Their sights are on the subcontinent as Chinese sales begin to slow.
Now that the quarterly monetary and credit policy announcement is out of the way, the macroeconomic policy focus must surely return to the critical issue of the exchange rate. The debate on what to do about it has been vigorous, on these pages and elsewhere, but, so far, it has not translated into a concrete statement about the direction which the policy is likely to take.
The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) for July 2007, released on September 12, showed the manufacturing sector decelerated to a growth rate of 7.2 per cent over July 2006, after many months of double-digit growth.
In sectors in which foreign resources are heavily invested, notably IT and ITES, the competitive edge of Indian firms is not really under any immediate threat
Most believe it was in the post-1991 period, but the structural break took place in 1980-85.
Regulatory reform will not stimulate improvements in the informal sector as long as the workers remain at current skill levels.
As far as outcomes are concerned, the evidence on a soft landing, while not yet conclusive, shows movement in the right direction.
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