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If You Build It, They Will Come

Knowing terrestrial talk shows won’t last forever, Ellen DeGeneres created a platform for the streaming age.  Now other top stars are following her lead

mastering the mid path

how dsp blackrock scripted a return to form through fresh blood, team work and a belief in the small and mid cap space.

we will surprise our customers very soon

pankaj munjal is dreaming big and taking the world’s largest bicycle maker, hero cycles, into areas that it has never ventured into.

restarting india

the indian economy is today akin to a single-engine cessna with three of its growth engines—private investment, domestic consumption and exports—sputtering. public investment, its fourth engine, does not have the required thrust. the budget is an opportunity for finance minister arun jaitley to put all growth drivers on full throttle.

The Great Currency Swap

The recent demonetisation has destroyed Rs 2-3 lakh crore of black money.But we await the logical continuation against the menace

America Inc: Stirring Calm in a Stormy Teacup

In an environment of socio-political uncertainty, US business leaders are reassuring anxious employees through messages of empathy and solidarity.

Tata-Mystery Effect- Independent Directors are in Focus

The role of independent directors comes into sharp focus as the Tata-Mistry spat spills over to group firms.

A Question of Identity and Governance

Airing unresolved differences in public is typical of a family business set-up. It is important to determine whether the Tata-Mistry feud is a role- or personality-based feud.

A Fine Balance

Adar Poonawalla shoulders the responsibility of his family’s vaccine business, takes forward his mother’s charitable dream and, yet, manages to find time to create a Batmobile for his son.

Monstor Game

The inside story of how Pokémon Go was created by a Google exec who got lost within the giant search company and how he persuaded his bosses to let him—and all those creatures— go free.

Mergers & Apprehensions

While the Grasim-Nuvo merger is expected to unlock value in the financial services business of the Aditya birla Group, concerns remain for Grasim’s minority shareholders.

Sail's Up

After a couple of unsuccessful attempts, Hector Beverages hit the nail on the head with Paper Boat. It’s now ready to take new and established players in the ethnic drinks category head on.

ACT Fibernet: Building 'Highways'

In a span of eight years, the broadband ISP is already the fourth-largest and is set to ramp up operations across India.

Meet The Talented Mr. Ranveer Singh

He has a quirky dress sense, boundless energy and a very intelligent mind. But above all else, Ranveer Singh is immersed in his craft and constantly yearning to excel himself. And he realises that he is at that stage when the possibilities before him are, in one word, limitless.

Auto Play

Chandigarh-based autorickshaw aggregation company Jugnoo is revving up its business by going beyond ride-hailing services

The Canadian Dream

With Victory Square, Shafin Tejani is weaving together a startup ecosystem in Vancouver that has real advantages over its neighbours to the south.

Getting a Global Grip

Despite initial missteps in its pursuit of international stature, Apollo Tyres is still in the game. Along the way, it has not lost sight of the Indian market.

Glaxo Takes Its Medicine

Andrew Witty inherited a drugmaker sick with scandal and spent the next eight years patching up his patient.GlaxoSmithKline may finally be well again.

Time To Hit The Beach?

Flush from a run at the Asian VIP casino take, Aussie operators gird for a wider resorts battle.

We are focussed on Made in India, for India, by India

With a user base of over 37 million, India is a market LinkedIn cannot ignore. With its recent India-specific product launches, the platform has firmly set its sights on the long term, says CEO Jeff Weiner.

Vegan Veterans

For more than 40 years Follow Your Heart has been quietly selling health-conscious foods. Now VCs are backing fast-growing competitors.

A Step Above

Three-year-old shoemaker Jack Erwin disrupted the footwear market by cutting out the middleman. Can it make the next leap forward?

The Right Hack

School dropout to cyber security entrepreneur: How 23-year-old Trishneet Arora’s love for technology helped him chart a different course

Global Factors Favour a Rise in Gold Prices

Circumstances Driving Demand for the Yellow Metal Include Increasing Crude Prices and Us-led Inflation Fears 

Where Angels Tread

Wealthy Individuals With an Appetite for Risk Are Increasingly Viewing Startups as a Viable Asset Class 

‘We Sell More Deity Figurines to Indians in the US than Here'

Spanish luxury brand Lladró’s porcelain pieces have found their way into many affluent Indian households, resulting in a 15 percent average growth in sales in the country each year

Masters Of Their Own Destiny

These bootstrapped businesses have focussed on their core products and geographical markets and have grown with the economy since liberalisation

'It's Safe To Say That Cloud Has Become The Norm'

Bikram Singh Bedi, head of India, Amazon Internet Services, on emerging technology trends and why Indian businesses have no choice but to go digital

Guilty Pleasures

From owning classic timepieces and attractive footwear to buying an island and a chateau on the coast, luxuryaspirations of corporate honchos and film stars are also about experiencing life

Striking The Millennial Chord

Increasingly luxurybrands have to look for ways to connect with a younger, more individualistic consumer