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Book review: The tragedy of Cafe Coffee Day, a global brand that might have been

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- On 29 July 2019, V.G. Siddhartha, founder of the Cafe Coffee Day chain and sundry other businesses, jumped off a bridge into the swirling waters of the Netravati River in Mangalu... Read More


Verghese Kurien and the power of social entrepreneurship

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- Verghese Kurien could have been a top-notch corporate honcho or even a successful business tycoon. He had both the education qualifications and the business chops to achieve eith... Read More


Company Outsider | From buybacks to buyouts: TCS learns the Accenture playbook as outsourcing slows

New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- Company Outsider is a weekly newsletter by Sundeep Khanna. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. For two decades, Tata Consultancy Services (... Read More


Fallen titan: Re-examining Rajat Gupta's tainted legacy

New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- Rajat Gupta was convicted of securities fraud and sentenced to two years in federal prison in the US. Following his four-week trial under the harsh glare of the arclights, judge ... Read More


Company Outsider: When IndiGo collapsed, its leaders were nowhere to be seen

New Delhi, Dec. 10 -- Company Outsider is a weekly newsletter by Sundeep Khanna. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. A toothless regulator and a dominant player ... Read More


Ratan Khatri: The Matka King who architected a million-dollar betting syndicate

New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- Through the 1960s, every evening at 9pm, in one of the seamier pockets of Mumbai, a man in a crisp white kurta would shuffle a fresh deck of cards. With theatrical precision, he w... Read More


Company Outsider: Is LIC an insurer of India's millions or a tool for strategic interventions?

New Delhi, Dec. 4 -- Company Outsider is a weekly newsletter by Sundeep Khanna. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. "The attempt and not the deed confounds us," ... Read More


Jaiprakash Gaur's lifetime of building has ended in a legacy of bankruptcy

New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- At 94, Jaiprakash Gaur should have been sitting atop the hill of Indian enterprise, having built a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate from scratch. Instead, he now watches his em... Read More


Company Outsider: The 10-minute miracle costing Zomato and Swiggy a fortune

New Delhi, Nov. 25 -- It is a strange situation. Zomato and Swiggy are racing to deepen their losses; but for now, investors don't seem to mind. Their strategy of doubling down on ultra-fast grocery d... Read More


Yash Chopra: The romantic visionary who built Bollywood's first studio empire

New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- There is no single architect of today's Bollywood, the $2-billion Hindi-language film industry that churns out nearly 2,000 films annually for a global audience of three billion.... Read More