·Business & Strategy
Searching for the future: It’s time to upgrade the Baidu business model
After years of reliance on search ad revenue, it’s time for Baidu to reconsider its business model and diversify
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·Leadership & Organisation
When growth leads to a slowdown, how do you tackle the paradox?
In their book ‘The Founder’s Mentality’, Chris Zook and James Allen, partners in Bain & Company, talk about what leaders can do for sustainable and profitable growth
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The ground beneath our feet
This Week: UPI and fintech—a historical perspective, business storytelling, monetizing innovation, essentialism and more
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·Economy, Policy & Society
As debate rages over AI displacing jobs, history offers some insights
The dawn of IT in Indian banking from the 1950s to the 1980s teaches important lessons that are valid in today’s context
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N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO | itihaasa Research and Digital
·Business & Strategy
Innovation the smart way, an interview with Georg Tacke
Georg Tacke, CEO of Simon-Kucher & Partners, discusses common pitfalls in product innovation and how to avoid them
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·Business & Strategy
Stories, not places, inspire us to travel
Storytelling can help tourism. For travellers seek memories not just photographs
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Economy, Policy & Society
Privacy in the time of Aadhaar
This Week: Aadhaar and the midday meal scheme, privacy and data security, defining your personal brand, and more
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Midday meals and Aadhaar: The debate reveals how to make the system robust
Look closer at the debate and you’ll see takeaways to strengthen the system
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Dorie Clark on defining your personal brand
“If three people call you a horse, buy a saddle,” says personal branding expert Dorie Clark. The final article in a five-part series on how individuals and companies can stand out in a competitive marketplace, differentiate their products and build a high-value company
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Cracking wicked problems
This Week: Grand challenges, collective ingenuity, building personal brands, procrastination and more
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Build your career and build your personal brand
In today’s busy workplaces, it is hard to get noticed. How do you build your career to develop your capabilities and make sure that decision-makers appreciate your talents? The fourth article in a five-part series on how companies and individuals can stand out in a competitive marketplace
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Looking for breakthrough ideas? Look outside your own context
A roundup of the stories we wrote and the books we’re following
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·Business & Strategy
Why Carlos Ghosn took ten years to taste success in India
Despite umpteen setbacks, the charismatic global chairman of Renault-Nissan didn’t give up on the opportunity in the Indian auto market. And finally, his team delivered a winner in the Renault Kwid
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Ask these questions to make your coaching and leadership effective
Coaching is an essential leadership skill. And questions are a good way to open doors, says Michael Bungay Stanier in his book ‘The Coaching Habit’
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Operating Partner | Advent International
·Business & Strategy
Building a brand identity to create a high-value company
How should a company increase the value of its products and services through building a brand identity? The third in a five-part series on how companies can stand out in a competitive marketplace
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