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Biba calls out the 'lady' prefix, yet boardrooms leave women on the margins

New Delhi, April 7 -- A recent Women's Day ad by apparel brand Biba asks why a woman is always professionally introduced with a prefix: lady pilot; lady cop; lady judge; lady doctor; lady boss. The ta... Read More


Storming the shop floor: The Lila Poonawalla story

New Delhi, April 4 -- Few Indian women have stormed the male bastion of manufacturing as forcefully as Lila Poonawalla. She managed this feat not in the diversity-conscious 2020s, but through the grit... Read More


Why India must stop learning corporate lessons from America Inc.

New Delhi, March 31 -- Last week, a US state court delivered a $375 million verdict against Meta Platforms Inc., finding the company used unfair, deceptive, and unconscionable trade practices by faili... Read More


Capt. GR Gopinath: Airline entrepreneur who sought to democratize Indian skies

New Delhi, March 28 -- One moment explains Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar Gopinath better than any business school case study. Standing in Phoenix Airport in the early 2000s, he noticed a board indicating 1,... Read More


KP Singh: The visionary who turned Gurgaon into corporate India's hub

New Delhi, March 21 -- For decades, the Indian middle class bought its homes from the government. In Delhi that meant the Delhi Development Authority (DDA); in Mumbai, the Maharashtra Housing and Are... Read More


Reliance Industries' Texas refinery bet hinges on future of fossil fuel

New Delhi, March 17 -- When US President Donald Trump announced the setting up of a refinery in partnership with Reliance Industries Ltd. last week, it came with a headline figure of $300 billion. Whi... Read More


FC Kohli: The IT visionary India forgot to remember

New Delhi, March 14 -- The Wikipedia entry for Faqir Chand Kohli classifies him as a co-founder of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), an unusual and rare honour for a professional executive, even in... Read More


Sunil Mittal's Airtel succession play

New Delhi, March 10 -- Bharti Airtel Ltd. Chairman Sunil Mittal, a sprightly 68, told investors recently that he still has "some years left". That sounds like an understatement given his ambitious att... Read More


Lala Shri Ram: How a failed entrepreneur built one of India's industrial dynasties

New Delhi, March 7 -- In 1909, a 25-year-old with a failed stationery shop and a cotton-ginning factory behind him arrived at his family's company. He had spent the intervening years working as a muni... Read More


Tata Sons' deferral on Chairman Chandra's extension rekindles governance issues

New Delhi, March 3 -- Most companies have an institutional document ostensibly about governance, but one that functions more opportunistically. Filed under headers like Leadership Norms or Succession ... Read More