New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- In 1915, after finishing his studies in Physics at Cambridge University, a delay in his return to India due to World War I led Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis to discover statistics... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- Few episodes have altered Mumbai's economic geography as profoundly as the infamous 1982 textile strike. What began as a wage dispute under Datta Samant, a doctor-turned-union lea... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- Credit to TVS Motor for flagging supply-chain risk, policy timing and industry dynamics, all in one breath. The two-wheeler maker has effectively connected the three forces reshap... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- Guru Nanak seems like an unlikely starting point for a book on trade and commerce in India during the Mughal period. The founder of Sikhism is among the many figures of history th... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- In the fateful autumn of 1906, the residents of Chennai (then Madras) awoke to a two-line notice that shattered the city's peace. "Messrs. Arbuthnot & Co. have suspended payments... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- Company Outsider is a weekly newsletter by Sundeep Khanna. Twenty-five years is a long time. Longer than many marriages, many careers, and the entire lifespan of several compani... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- Through the 1970s and 1980s, a galaxy of technopreneurs that included Yusuf Hamied of Cipla, Parvinder Singh of Ranbaxy, Dilip Shanghvi of Sun Pharma, Ramanbhai Patel of Zydus-Ca... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- Google's recent $15 billion investment in a Visakhapatnam data centre is a shrewd bet on India emerging as a major player in the digital infrastructure business. But it is also a... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- Before Prakash Tandon, corporate leadership in India passed from father to son, much like a royal succession, a mark of the hereditary privilege of founding families and their de... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- When America's top business leaders gathered to meet with President Donald Trump last month, the optics revealed capitalism's shifting dynamics. That scene of corporate titans as... Read More