Air Deccan\'s story ... is the story of the new India, the India of possibilities,\" according to G.R. Gopinath, the founder of India\'s first low-fare airline. After India liberalized its economy in the early 1990s, Gopinath met a former Army colleague, a pilot who was out of work -- one of hundreds of pilots who needed jobs. The meeting gave him the idea to launch a helicopter company, \"because I felt the ecology was right.\" Starting with one helicopter, Gopinath went on to build Air Deccan, India\'s second largest airline with 40 aircraft that fly to 60 destinations around the country. In an interview with India Knowledge@Wharton, Gopinath discussed the beginnings of his entrepreneurial journey.

Monsanto Co. should be thriving. .The company has helped develop most of the world\'s biotech crops; it produces the best-selling agricultural chemical of all time, and after a series of huge acquisitions, it can now call itself the world\'s No. 2 agricultural seed company, behind the Pioneer Hi-Bred unit of DuPont Co.

McDonald\'s, that icon of American values worldwide, has unveiled a new strategy after the ignominy of making its first loss in almost three decades. But there are good reasons to doubt the wisdom of the firm\'s planned move upmarket to appeal to the healthy tastes of today\'s young adults

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Can Peter Kim shake up the giant’s R&D operations?

The Redmond giant has been spreading its money across various broadband ventures. What’s left to buy?

After creating a program that makes Linux as easy to use as Windows, Miguel de Icaza is trying to make it just as simple to produce open-source versions of thousands of new Windows applications. So why isn\'t Microsoft worried?

Local banks are struggling, so what is Citigroup doing right?

The software giant has emerged from its antitrust quagmire, and it has a new product to pitch. Might its reversal of fortune have something to do with Steve Ballmer\'s re-engineered personality

Kohl’s has posted spectacular growth by appealing to time-starved soccer moms.

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Should the world’s biggest conglomerate break itself up?

An American subsidiary of ABB, a European engineering giant, may be forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because of huge asbestos-related liabilities. It is one of hundreds of companies having to fight lawsuits brought by people made ill by-or merely exposed to-the fire retardant.

Pfizer today posted strong earnings, driven by swelling sales of key drugs like the high cholesterol medicine Lipitor. There is every reason to believe that profits will keep ratcheting up following Pfizer\'s planned merger with Pharmacia. But will they come from sales growth, or merely from merger- related cost savings?