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No. 13: TATA

Tata can still dazzle, even if its takeovers since 2007 of steelmaker Corus and Jaguar Land Rover look ill-timed now. After making Asia's fastest supercomputer, the $85 billion company just launched a $2,000 minicar, the Nano. (Tata Chairman, Ratan Tata, pictured here at the March 2009 launch of the Nano in Mumbai.)

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