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Elon Musk is proof visionaries aren't minted in B-Schools

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


Akshay Chavan's 'The Wealth Networks' explores how ancient India shaped global commerce

New Delhi, June 21 -- Some books should not be reviewed, just read and savoured. Akshay Chavan has written exactly such a book in The Wealth Networks, which leaves this reviewer in something of a bind... Read More


LM Thapar: the bon vivant who presided over the last party of license-raj capitalism

New Delhi, June 20 -- If Indian business history were a story, Lalit Mohan Thapar would emerge as one of its more intriguing characters. Not so much a founder, an uber-billionaire or a visionary, he ... Read More


Nani Palkhivala: the expensive lawyer who fought for liberty

New Delhi, June 13 -- Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium once thrilled to the sweet sound of the willow, the elegant strokes of Neil Harvey or the grit of Chandu Borde. But only one non-cricketer ever packed ... Read More


Why Tata Sons' resistance to listing rests on weak, outdated arguments

New Delhi, June 9 -- For over a century, Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. has enjoyed the well-deserved reputation of balancing corporate ambition with fiduciary responsibility. Central to it has been its trust-he... Read More


Ardeshir and Pirojsha Burjorji, the inventor and builder duo who founded the Godrej group

New Delhi, June 6 -- Long before Xerox became synonymous with photocopying or Google with search, a young Parsi in Bombay created a product that would become inseparable from his name. That inventor w... Read More


India Inc. plays it safe, and pays for it

New Delhi, June 2 -- The sudden collapse of India's solar export boom isn't just a sector-specific problem. It reveals something deeper about Indian business. For decades, Indian companies have displ... Read More


The lion in winter: the defiant life and fading empire of Nusli Wadia

New Delhi, May 30 -- For the last 50 years, Nusli Wadia has been corporate India's ultimate samurai-an uncompromising patrician who never backed down from a fight. Armed with an enviable pedigree, an ... Read More


Vikram Lal: the industrial tycoon who knew when to walk away

New Delhi, May 23 -- Vikram Lal is not a name many young, aspirational Indians instantly recognize. Ask a 20-something in Bengaluru or Mumbai who built the empire behind the Royal Enfield motorcycle, ... Read More


C. Sivasankaran: the price warrior who failed to price in his own risks

New Delhi, May 16 -- In the mid-1980s, when a personal computer in India cost as much as Rs.80,000, a young Tamil entrepreneur walked into the stalled market and crashed prices by more than half. Chi... Read More