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Brijmohan Lall Munjal's four-stroke engine of grit, gumption, resilience and humility

New Delhi, July 12 -- The eyes were the first thing you noticed about Brijmohan Lall Munjal, founder of the Hero Group and a titan of Indian industry. They were steady, unhurried, and kind, speaking o... Read More


Company Outsider | The Paranjpe paradox: Sustainability in an era of shareholder scrutiny

New Delhi, July 9 -- Nitin Paranjpe, Chairman of Hindustan Unilever (HUL), articulates a sentiment echoed by many leaders of global corporations: the pressing need for environmentally responsible grow... Read More


The original unicorn: How Annamalai Chettiar built India's first financial powerhouse

New Delhi, July 5 -- Long before the first unicorns and decacorns appeared in India, there lived an entrepreneur who had an innate understanding of scale and an uncanny ability to leverage diaspora ne... Read More


Company Outsider | Novelis and after: How Hindalco cracked the foreign buyout code

New Delhi, July 2 -- Hindalco Industries, the metals flagship of the Aditya Birla Group, offers a compelling case study in how strategic overseas acquisitions can deliver substantial long-term gains. ... Read More


Gulshan Kumar, the juice seller who rose to become the music mogul of Bollywood

New Delhi, June 28 -- On a sweltering August morning in 1997, Mumbai pulsed with its usual chaos of cars and hawkers, along with the hum of Bollywood tunes wafting from roadside stalls. Suddenly, the ... Read More


How big brands fooled consumers with plastic

New Delhi, June 14 -- How Big Brands Got Us Hooked On Plastic reads like a corporate thriller, except the villains are real and the consequences devastating. It is a gripping, meticulously researched ... Read More


The battle to put a phone in every Indian's hand

New Delhi, May 24 -- The idea that you could walk into a neighborhood store, buy a phone, insert a SIM card and start calling family and friends within hours would have been the stuff of science ficti... Read More


The takeover titan: Rama Prasad Goenka's empire-building saga

New Delhi, May 17 -- In an era when corporate raiders were still cutting their teeth, Rama Prasad Goenka was rewriting the rules of Indian business with a flair for takeovers that earned him the title... Read More


Company Outsider: Titan's succession planning ensures continuity and evokes confidence

New Delhi, May 14 -- By naming Ajoy Chawla as its next managing director a full seven months before the incumbent, C.K. Venkataraman, is scheduled to retire, Titan has once again shown the way to smoo... Read More


How CR Bhansali exploited India's NBFC blind spots in the 1990s

New Delhi, May 10 -- When Chain Roop Bhansali's elaborately assembled financial house of cards collapsed in 1996, it didn't just cost 300,000 investors their life savings, it exposed the dangerous fra... Read More