·Business & Strategy
What makes Alibaba tick
Jack Ma who created Alibaba, China's biggest online marketplace is a hero in the country. And with good reason at that.
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The hare and the tortoise
The R K Swamy Hansa group remains the last man standing, even as almost all the large homegrown advertising-led groups have thrown in the towel. How did the Swamy brothers, Srinivasan and Shekar, pull it off?
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Private profit vs. public good: A case for repurposing capitalist enterprises
Private business corporations, the central tool of capitalism, need reform. We need to rethink the purpose of the corporation, the principle of limited liability, and the idea of who owns the enterprise
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission
·Leadership & Organisation
Building leaders for and in India
What do we need more of: leaders who dominate global institutions or local leaders with a make-in-India mindset?
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
How Sugar Cosmetics found its sweet spot
Vineeta Singh, CEO of Sugar Cosmetics, talks about turning fears into wins, taking an unconventional approach to succeed in a David & Goliath scenario, and building resilience from unexpected sources
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·Leadership & Organisation
What leaders need to do to capture value from innovation in the digital era
Innovation is easier in the digital era. Yet, capturing value from innovation is becoming more challenging. This calls for the leader’s role to change to that of chief experimenter
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB, Professor of Strategy
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
How to read like Bill Gates
Gates reads 50 books a year. How does he process all this information?
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·Leadership & Organisation
What's common to Hitler and company budgets?
Hitler's focus on battles, not the war cost Germany its sovereignty. That's exactly what happens to companies which focus on annual budgets alone.
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K Ramkumar
Founder and CEO, Leadership Centre
·Economy, Policy & Society
India can build world-class universities. IISc shows how, with a few caveats
Indian institutions tend to decay over time. The Indian Institute of Science seems to have defied this trend thanks to a strong commitment to certain core principles
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB, Professor of Strategy
·Economy, Policy & Society
When a tech idea goes into a government office
Aadhaar was designed as an enabler, a utility. That is its strength, and its weakness
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
The Spotlight on Incest
Why it often takes an outsider to bring change and why everybody in leadership positions ought to put the movie ‘Spotlight’ on their list of mandatory viewing
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
My leap into quantum computing
Shoumik is building a career in deep tech. He shares what prompted him to jump into quantum computing, a hot space in frontier science. And whether the big bets by the tech giants and cutting-edge startups in the Valley will pay off. Resilience is often an underrated, yet critical aspect of any career in tech, says his mom and deep tech entrepreneur, Amrita Chowdhury, drawing on her Valley experience in the 90s
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Amrita Chowdhury
Director, Gaia Smart Cities
·Leadership & Organisation
How to retain high achievers and keep them well-grounded
What to do when you have a high achiever who is raring to go, but is not ready for the big stuff yet
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Xi Jinping and the rise of a new party elite
The crucial Chinese Communist Party congress next month will likely usher in a new breed of technocrats in its highest decision making bodies. In that there are clues to shifts in the country’s domestic and foreign policy
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G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Indore
·Economy, Policy & Society
The hidden fault lines behind Jack Ma’s fall
The regulatory pushback was long in the making. And it has as much to do with Alibaba's dominance, a wariness of big businesses, and deeper socio-cultural issues
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G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Indore