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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


Manmohan Singh: The quiet reformer who reshaped India's economic destiny

New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- In his parting speech as prime minister, Manmohan Singh hoped that history would judge him more kindly. He was right; he usually was, for this was a man who measured his words by... Read More


The bottomless pit that is BSNL

New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- More than six years after the government poured Rs.69,000 crore for its revival and nearly two years after it paid Rs.132 crore to Boston Consulting Group for a strategic transfo... Read More


Why the LeanSpark theory of frugal innovation fails to convince

New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- There are books about innovation. And then there are books about human enterprise. LeanSpark by Jaideep Prabhu, Priyank Narayan and Mukesh Sud belongs firmly to the latter catego... Read More


Ghanshyam Das Birla: The capitalist who built India's freedom and future

New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- On the evening of 30 January 1948, as an assassin's bullets shattered the winter calm at Birla House in New Delhi, the lives of Mahatma Gandhi and Ghanshyam Das Birla were bound ... Read More


Carbon chickens are coming home to roost, and India has nowhere to hide

New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- For years, any conversation around Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks felt like an unnecessary diversion in Indian boardrooms; a glossy chapter in annual repo... Read More