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Education System - Can Budget 2019 Mark A Fresh Beginning?
Overhauling the education system and refocusing on career-oriented skill development is the long-term panacea for India’s employment woes, and Budget 2019 needs to provide a fresh start to that journey
Health Care's The Best Policy
With investment from SoftBank, India’s biggest online insurance aggregator PolicyBazaar is ready for its next big foray: Health care on tap
Big Ambitions, Bold Ideas
Forbes India’s Hidden Gems features eight companies that have shunned the limelight despite an impressive show and strong fundamentals
Packing A Punch
Vimal Kedia’s company has grown to become a trusted supplier of packaging solutions to major FMCG players
Fresh Red Zomatoes!
How food tech major Zomato is making an audacious bid to transform itself into a farm-to-fork company.
Investing In Top Talent In India Is Not Cheap
OnePlus founder and CEO Pete Lau on recruiting bright prospects for its R&D centre in the country that is expected to be the smartphone maker’s largest.
The Very Very Special Playbook
The life mantras that helped VVS Laxman, one of India’s most elegant batsmen, navigate international cricket are applicable well beyond the field.
The Accidental Caviar King
The most coveted fish eggs in the world aren’t produced in Russia. They’re made in China—by Bill Holst, a Wisconsin scrapyard operator.
The Social Network
Social Alpha, founded by Tata Trusts, is attempting to redefine philanthropy by creating an ecosystem to help entrepreneurs find funding and markets.
Age Is Just A Number
Teenagers crowdfunding for social causes or innovations are taking people closer to everyday philanthropy, one digital campaign at a time.
Generation Impact
An emerging generation of donors, driven by strategy and impact, is altering the nature of philanthropy.
Leading The Way
A survey of 40 donors across Asia-Pacific who are putting their wealth to good works.
Tightening The Purse Strings
Why Ratan Tata’s $300-million fund with University of California, a prolific series B and C investor in some of India’s most high-profile startups till recently, has stopped for a breather.
Worldwide Pandeymonium
Piyush Pandey’s elevation as global chief creative officer of Ogilvy—a first for an Indian—underlines how the celebrated adman transformed the iconic ad agency from multinational to multicultural.
The Ultimate Road Trip
A Bengaluru couple gave up their homes and jobs to spend their lives living in villages with tribes, to find solutions to their everyday problems.
Hitting The ‘Like' Button Too Big To Delete?
Lack of a credible alternative and awareness about data safety and security mean Facebook doesn’t lose out in its biggest market because of alleged data abuse
Testing Times Made Easy
With its platform that allows software testing in quick time, BrowserStack has won over global clients and is making a profit too
Prime Choice
Buyer interest in luxury residences has been, by and large, subdued, yet a new breed of HNIs is indulging in some big-ticket buys at coveted locations
Coining Toss
Lee Seung-Gun’s payments app has taken young Koreans by storm. Can he scale it into a fintech unicorn?
Digital Medici
You no longer need to be rich to be an arts benefactor. But can crowdfunding site Patreon save creators from the starvation wages of online advertising?
Twin-Win Venture
As he prepares to take Varroc Engineering public, Tarang Jain joins twin brother Anurang on the 2018 Forbes World’s Billionaires List.
How To Beat Wall Street And Silicon Valley Simultaneously
The American Dream is alive and well on Wall Street thanks to Robert Smith, the richest black person in America, who has figured out a way to re-engineer both private equity and enterprise software— and used this secret playbook to build a $4.4 billion fortune.
The Artisanal Industrialist
Francis Holder built a billion-dollar bread-and-pastry empire by mixing American mechanical production with traditional French techniques. Now the Henry Ford of baking is savouring his greatest success—selling millions of macarons to the classes on Madison Avenue and the masses at McDonald’s
Luxe Pop
How the aspiration for luxury has travelled well beyond the metrosand their cityslickers
Toys For Big Boys
How Big Boy Toyz, a Gurugram-based retailer of pre-owned luxury cars, isstriking gold with second-hand luxury cars ranging from 50 lakh to 4 crore
From Imagination To Images
The adaptation of books into films has always been equally frustrating and rewarding
Healing In Style
Luxury hospitals go beyond providing clinical excellence; they now offer therapeutic care with facilities like yachts, salons and malls
'Laws Frustrate Me, But I Get Why They Are There'
Bill Lumsden, the director of distilling at Scotch single malt producer Glenmorangie, on how to protect the exclusivity of the premium alcohol
'India Loses Out On Innovation Quotient'
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on the need for an ecosystem where VCs invest in life tech enterprises and why some Indian startups prefer a presence in the mature US market
Here Come The Sons-In-Law
The next generation seems well poised to carry the torch of Yusuff Ali and his LuLu Group