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Green Steel

After his partner dropped dead in his hotel room, globe-trotting financier David Stickler found himself at the helm of a steel mill startup in rural Arkansas. Now he runs the best little high-tech, highly leveraged steelmaker in the nation.

Failure To Launch

Chris Roberts has spent seven years and raised nearly $300 million—most of it from average gamers—building Star Citizen. It’s on pace to be the most expensive video game ever made and—outside of cryptocurrency— the world’s largest crowdfunded project. It’s still not ready. It may never be.

The Stirring Pot

With the rise—and fall—of gimmickry and imitation in modern Indian cuisine, chefs are digging deeper into India’s hinterland to innovate and survive diner fatigue.

What We Built Is Sustainable, Not Glamorous

Stuart Crighton of Cleartrip talks about staying focussed on consumers and products in the highly competitive sector of online travel aggregators.

Putting Data to Work

Atlan is helping governments and companies manage and analyse data to achieve better and faster results.

Pressing The EV Accelerator

The government is making a fervent push for electric mobility and the two-wheeler industry is on its toes to meet the growing demand.

Deep Discounting Is Not A Great Thing For Anybody

Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal reckons the #Logout campaign won’t determine the future of food tech or the restaurant industry in India. Edited excerpts from an interview.

Past Tense, Present Perfect, Future Ready

Over the last five years, Hero MotoCorp and its chief Pawan Munjal have put the Honda split behind them and built R&D capabilities to consolidate the company’s position as a two-wheeler behemoth.

A Peek Into What's Keeping Anurag Kashyap Busy!

As Anurag Kashyap turns 47 next month, he will still provoke—as a filmmaker and writer, but no longer on Twitter.

Growing Good

On the back of a vertically integrated supply chain, and world-class R&D and manufacturing facilities, the firm is on its way to becoming a global leader in nutraceutical ingredients.

How IIM's Struggle To Attract Quality Students And Faculty Effecting The Brand?

The new IIMs have come a long way since they first took flight a decade ago, but still struggle to attract quality students and faculty. How does this impact the brand?

Anurag Kashyap: 'I Don't Have Any Filters'

The prefix ‘freewheeling’ before an interview to describe an uninhibited chat is perhaps one of the most overused, but a conversation with Anurag Kashyap does perfect justice to the word. excerpts from a no-holds-barred two-hour interview at the maverick filmmaker’s residence in suburban Mumbai.

Shreegopal Kabra - Rewiring The Future

Innovative products, cheeky marketing and strong macro levers are helping the company emerge as a formidable player in the wire and cable market.

TPG Capital Asia Is Sealing The Deal

TPG Capital Asia has deployed nearly $2 billion in India and scripted the turnaround of companies.

The Yin & Yang of Lupin

Putting their diverse management styles to work, Vinita and Nilesh Gupta are dreaming big billions for the pharma major.

GST: The Good Bad And Uncertain

Implementation of GST will affect various sectors differently. Grant Thornton offers a quick look at how some of them will fare if the proposed bill is passed in Parliament

When Business Begins at Home

Once considered a long shot, Naaptol, the home-shopping company, has managed to scale rapidly by understanding its customers better.

Independence of Directors Vs Corporate Democracy

Foremost in resolving the Tata-Mistry dispute is whether ‘corporate democracy’ overrides all other issues, notably independence of directors.

Cellar Secrets

Collecting fine spirits means not only do you get to drink the best, but also, perhaps, make money on it.

Korea's POP Export

Bigbang, the first Korean act to land on our Celeb 100, pulled in $44 million this year, offering a window into the campy K-Pop genre—and a blueprint for making money on music anywhere in the world

Teach The Children

Vineet and Anupama Nayar are betting $100 million that their low-tech tools will get students to learn in India’s notoriously ineffective rural schools

Myntra's Style Statement

By acquiring Jabong, the online fashion retailer has consolidated its position as the market leader. Now, it has set its sights firmly on profitability, says CEO Ananth Narayanan

Ctrl+Alt+Del @ Wipro

New CEO Abidali Neemuchwala is creating a startup culture at the IT major to regain market leadership and, more importantly, keep up with the times.

Nazara Games: Playing to Win

With the mobile gaming market in India expected to boom, the Mumbai based company is ready to reap the benefits.

Better Protection

The world’s largest condom-maker, Malaysia’s Karex, is buying up innovative new brands that are changing a product long ripe for improvement.

IFMR Capital: The Money Conductors

With its unique risk-mitigating financial products, the NBFC has handheld MFIs into the world of big finance. In the process, it has helped breadline businesses find their passports to growth - credit.

Where Process Trumps Product

As more and more Indian business families adopt a constitution, it is becoming clear that for the document to be effective, the manner of drafting it has to be given due importance.

A Hint Of An Encore

A tremor in Japan, the onslaught of foreign brands in India, and a discord within the Nambiar family knocked down consumer electronics giant BPL. Now, scion Ajit Nambiar is plotting a quiet revival.

The 1,000-year Plan

The Lee family has been selling its Lee Kum Kee sauces for 130 years. Sammy Lee is now thinking about the next millennium

'We Need To Accept Failure To Progress'

Samuel West, founder of Sweden’s Museum of Failure, on highlighting the ideas that didn’t make it and the merits of seeing the big boys fail