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Architect of chaos: Harshad Mehta and the price of reform

New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- In July 1991, India dismantled the four-decade-old Licence Raj and embraced economic liberalization. Over the next few months, as unprecedented foreign capital poured in, a pecul... Read More


IndiGo, Air India losses show what happens when airlines ignore customers

New Delhi, Jan. 27 -- Air India's projected $1.6 billion loss and IndiGo's 78% profit plunge prove what management research has documented for decades: what's good for customers is good for business. ... Read More


Rahul Bajaj didn't just build scooters. He built India's business spine.

New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- When 27-year-old Rishab Bajaj walked onto the stage earlier this month to unveil the Chetak C25, the moment carried a weight far heavier than the electric scooter's chassis. For ... Read More


Company Outsider: SC's Tiger Global verdict tests certainty of India's FDI tax treaties

New Delhi, Jan. 20 -- India just rewrote tax rules for foreign investors. Sadly, it isn't clear what they are. That's the subtext of the Supreme Court's 15 January ruling against Tiger Global. The ver... Read More


Scott Adams warned us about bad bosses-then we laughed it off

New Delhi, Jan. 14 -- Boardrooms would have been better places had their inmates paid more heed to Scott Adams, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 68. Dilbert-the necktie-wearing, cubicle-bound ... Read More


Company Outsider | Why India's Rs.1.6-trillion semiconductor bet looks more Intel than Nvidia

New Delhi, Jan. 14 -- Company Outsider is a weekly newsletter by Sundeep Khanna. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. Erstwhile semiconductor giant Intel has shed... Read More


Ketan Parekh, the persistent ghoul of Dalal Street

New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- Ketan Parekh was a serial entrepreneur of systemic rot. First penalized for his role in the 1992 securities scam, he resurfaced by the turn of the millennium with a personalized... Read More


Company Outsider | Scooters to inverters: How Bhavish Aggarwal's many ideas hobbled Ola's EV edge

New Delhi, Jan. 6 -- What do ride-sharing, food delivery, electric scooters, and home inverters have in common? To the casual observer, very little. To Bhavish Aggarwal, the restless founder of the Ol... Read More


Scooters to inverters: How Bhavish Aggarwal's many ideas hobbled Ola's EV edge

New Delhi, Jan. 6 -- What do ride-sharing, food delivery, electric scooters, and home inverters have in common? To the casual observer, very little. To Bhavish Aggarwal, the restless founder of the Ol... Read More


Aditya Vikram Birla: The industrial titan who outran the Licence Raj

New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- In the mid-1960s, a young Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-trained chemical engineer returned home to India, which seemed determined to smother his ambition. In the 19... Read More