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Ravi Matthai: the institution builder who took management beyond the boardroom

New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- By the 1920s, the first multinationals had arrived in India. Nestle had been selling condensed milk through agents in Bombay and Calcutta since 1912, Siemens set up its India uni... Read More


Giva's retreat is more revealing than Kriti Sanon's bralette

New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- There was a time when the worst thing that could happen to an ad was that nobody noticed it. Now, the real danger is being noticed by the wrong people. Giva, the D2C jewellery br... Read More


Is Elon Musk a visionary genius or evil billionaire?

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


Prafulla Chandra Ray: the chemist who refused to stay in the lab

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


NSE, Anthropic IPOs point to the contrasting capitalism of India and US

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


Dr. Prathap Reddy: the healthcare visionary who refuses to retire

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


Noel Tata has inherited the power. Now he must decide how to use it.

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


Jatin Mehta: the quiet fugitive behind a billion-dollar vanishing act

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


N. Chandrasekaran's exit illustrates how professionals and family businesses make for uneasy bed fellows in India

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


Ananya Birla's break from billionaire bubble is a reality check for her class

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