New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Eric Jorgenson's The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success is not really a book in any conventional sense. It is an organised scrap-heap of things Elon Musk has said, writ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- Prafulla Chandra Ray's beef with the British went beyond politics. He wanted to beat them at the thing that mattered to a rapidly industrialising world: making things. It was a ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- Two of the biggest IPOs this year-at the opposite ends of the world and equally dissimilar in nature-point to the contrast between the corporate ecosystems of India and the US. ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- At an age when most people are content to settle into history, 93-year-old Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy is still busy writing it. He sits atop a healthcare empire spanning more than... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The debate over who should replace Natarajan Chandrasekaran as chairman of Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. is becoming a national guessing game. Names have been floated, credentials weighed,... Read More
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