April 9, 2012 / Fortune Asia / Volume 165 / Number 5 / ASIA'S 25 HOTTEST PEOPLE IN BUSINESS

44 Asia's 25 Hottest People in Business
Meet the entrepreneurs, CEOs-in-waiting, and next-gen leaders shaking up the region.
By Rupali Arora

50 The 12 Greatest Entrepreneurs of Our Time and What You Can Learn From Them
Great ideas are hard to come by. Putting them to work is even harder. Meet the founders who turned concepts into companies and changed the face of business.
By John A. Byrne

64 Europe's Foxiest Banker Takes On the World
Emilio Bot n has made Santander a European financial powerhouse by acquiring prominent foreign banks for bargain prices.
By Charles P. Wallace

70 Mitt Romney's Hedge Fund Kingmaker
Elite money manager Paul Singer, a passionate defender of the 1% and a rising Republican power broker, is determined to put a candidate who shares his views back in the White House.
By Michelle Celarier

10 FIRST
By the Numbers
Versailles no, not the one in France is America's biggest house.
BY ANNE VANDERMEY

15 FIRST
The Briefing
Putin's nemesis gains ground; the rush is on for tungsten; and more.

16 FIRST
Closer Look
Yahoo is suing Facebook, saying it violated its patents. Does Amazon have a case too?
BY ROGER PARLOFF

17 FIRST
The Best Advice I Ever Got
Kevin Ryan, chairman and CEO of AlleyCorp, a New York City incubator.
INTERVIEW BY ELLEN FLORIAN

20 FIRST
World's Most Admired Companies
How Intuit rules.
By RICHARD MCGILL MURPHY

21 FIRST
The Chartist
Wheels of tomorrow. By anne vanderMey graphics
BY NICOLAS RAPP

29 TECH
Tech@Work
Inside SAP's radical makeover.
BY MICHAL LEV-RAM

32 TECH
Tech Star
AnchorFree: a road warrior's friend and a censor's foe.
BY ALEX KONRAD

33 INVEST
Wall Street Interview
Daniel Peris: It's all about the dividends.
BY SCOTT CENDROWSKI

36 INVEST
Wealth Adviser
Beware the tax bite of oil and gold ETFs.
BY JANICE REVELL

37 INVEST
Face-Off
Is Boeing's stock ready to fly?
INTERVIEWS BY RYAN DEROUSSEAU

9 Editor's Desk

76 Bing!

38 Geoff Colvin
Politicians say they can cure the middle-class blues. Don't believe them.

40 Allan Sloan
Which part of government deserves props for doing its job? Yup, the Fed.

41 Becky Quick
To fill local coffers, strike down the "Amazon exemption."

42 Jack and Suzy Welch
What do great leaders have in common? They're authentic. Authenticity alone doesn't make you a leader, but you sure can't be a leader without it.

43 Dan Primack
Obama and private equity: friends or foes?