New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- Jatin Mehta knew exactly when his game was up. Between August and November 2012, he quietly stepped down from his key companies, Forever Precious and Winsome Diamonds & Jewellery... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- India's most consequential conglomerate has just confirmed that professionals might run the business, but it's the family that runs the professionals. Natarajan Chandrasekaran's ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Two images from the past month deserve attention. In the first, Ananya Birla, daughter of business baron Kumar Mangalam Birla, is in flood-hit upper Assam, helping deliver food, ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- A Personal History of India's Forgotten Company Town opens with a claim that is sure to give the discerning reader pause. Bata, she writes, was a "multinational corporation with g... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- In March 1985, Rishi Kamlesh Agarwal, then barely 30, incorporated Magdalla Shipyard Pvt. Ltd. in Surat with the aim of building ships in a country that had a 7,500-kilometre coas... Read More
New Delhi, July 25 -- Away from the flashbulbs of Mumbai's corporate world, there has long existed another way of building businesses-quiet, understated and no less formidable. Kandathil Mammen Mamme... Read More
New Delhi, July 18 -- A metallurgy degree from Manchester and an MBA from Birmingham were meant to secure Bish Agrawal a highly paid seat in an established corporate boardroom. Instead, he gambled on ... Read More
New Delhi, July 11 -- More than a hundred years before venture capital, pitch decks or exit strategies entered the lexicon of Indian business, Hemendra Mohan Bose was living the founder's life in colo... Read More
New Delhi, July 4 -- A hundred years ago, a modest office in Calcutta could influence the price of tea in London, finance a coal mine in Bengal, appoint the directors of a jute mill, insure a fleet of... Read More
New Delhi, June 23 -- Elon Musk just cemented his place as the most consequential entrepreneur of our times. Following the blockbuster public listing of SpaceX Inc., he is the world's first trillionai... Read More