The Billionaire Next Door

Forget Branson and Buffett. Like Carlos Slim, many of the world's wealthiest people operate in the shadows of the global economy. Meet the tycoons you don't know but should.

OCTOBER 11, 2007

Expert Sitings: Henry Jenkins

Henry Jenkins is co-director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. He blogs on media and popular culture at henryjenkins.org.

AUGUST 16, 2007

Crime and Punishment

BY KEN MORITSUGU | APRIL 18, 2007

Posing for Profit

BY ARLYN TOBIAS GAJILAN | APRIL 25, 2006

India Finds Its Calling

BY SHASHI THAROOR | FEBRUARY 17, 2006

India Outsmarts China

The economic race between China and India is changing the way the world does business. By 2050, it is estimated that these two Asian heavyweights will account for nearly half the world's gross domestic product, up from just 6 percent today. But whose model is better, China's low-cost factories or India's low-cost financiers? For all the benefits of China's swift rise, India's brain power will finally give it the tools to catch up.

BY DIANA FARRELL | JANUARY 4, 2006

India Gets Defensive

BY JAIDEEP SINGH | JULY 1, 2005

Election Observer

How does the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign appear to a non-American? To find out, FP recently chatted with Chidanand Rajghatta, the Times of India's Washington-based foreign editor. The Bangalore native has covered the United States for several Indian publications during the last decade.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

Selling to the Poor

Searching for new customers eager to buy your products? Forget Tokyo's schoolgirls and Milan's fashionistas. Instead, try the world's 4 billion poor people, the largest untapped consumer market on Earth. To reach them, CEOs must shed old concepts of marketing, distribution, and research. Getting it right can both generate big profits and help end economic isolation throughout the developing world.

BY ALLEN L. HAMMOND, C.K. PRAHALAD | MAY 1, 2004

Can India Overtake China?

What's the fastest route to economic development? Welcome foreign direct investment (FDI), says China, and most policy experts agree. But a comparison with long-time laggard India suggests that FDI is not the only path to prosperity. Indeed, India's homegrown entrepreneurs may give it a long-term advantage over a China hamstrung by inefficient banks and capital markets.

BY YASHENG HUANG, TARUN KHANNA | JULY 1, 2003

Think Again: Fundamentalism

For all the current focus on fiery Islamic extremists, religious fundamentalists are not confined to any particular faith or country, nor to the poor and uneducated. Instead, they are likely to spring up anywhere people perceive the need to fight a godless, secular culture -- even if they have to depart from the orthodoxy of their traditions to do it. In fact, what fundamentalists everywhere have in common is the ability to craft their messages to fit the times.

BY R. SCOTT APPLEBY, MARTIN E. MARTY | JANUARY 1, 2002

India's Great Divide

BY SADANAND DHUME | JULY 1, 2001