How Salil Parekh Has Outperformed Peers By Building New Capabilities In Digital, Cloud, Automation And AI

On CEO Salil Parekh’s watch, infosys is looking to cash in on the post-pandemic push for digital transformation. Ensuring the company stays the course will be Parekh’s biggest challenge

Divided We Grow Together

If a split in a family business has to happen, then it must be for the larger good of creating wealth for all stakeholders

Employee To Entrepreneur

After being laid off, several youngsters are launching their own ventures instead of taking the conventional job-seeking route

India Inclusive

Two years after a historic judgment by the supreme Court, companies are realising that the case for LGBTQ+ inclusion is stronger than ever, even as tackling under-representation, stereotypes and biases remains a work in progress

PAST PERFECT

The preservation of Bath’s architectural heritage shows that conservation needs to be a concerted and long-standing effort by public and private participants

GAINING CURRENCY

How the Guptas took innerwear brand Dollar close to ₹1,000 crore in revenue. Can the third gen now push it on to a faster growth trajectory?

‘The million dollar question is, what is going to happen with offices'

Stephen A Schwarzman, chairman and CEO of Blackstone Group, talks about investment trends and lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic

TOUGH AS LEATHER

The Kalsis have rebuilt a leather footwear export business that was ravaged by fire twice. Can the third generation stitch a new story with a consumer brand?

Convert to Cloud

Google Cloud India is gunning for enterprise customers by putting together a world-class team, and backing it up with its know-how

Recovery Within Reach

A handful of startups are using technology and on-ground interventions to strengthen rural primary health care, but impact might be limited without government intervention

TOUGH COOKIE

Britannia’s Biscuits-heavy portfolio ensured record growth in the lockdown phase and after, even as it stays the course to Becoming a total foods company

‘Health Care Should Move Out of Hospitals'

Shobana Kamineni, executive vice chairperson, Apollo Hospitals, on the increasing competition in the pharmacy business, the importance of telemedicine post-Covid and why patient care, and not revenues, should be top priority

RED ALERT

How Dabur Red has become a ₹1,000-crore toothpaste brand, and now threatens to dislodge No 2 Closeup

In The Big League

Starting out as an API player, Laurus Labs has broadened the scope of its businesses, improving its potential to emerge as a complete pharma company

Wellbeing in a Bottle

A bunch of young entrepreneurs is reinventing how the ancient wisdom of ayurveda can be made more palatable for newer generations

Turning The Tables

A number of health care startups has innovated to turn the tough business climate to their advantage

Doctors on Call

Can the explosive growth in telemedicine continue after the pandemic blows over?

Building Immunity

Indian pharma’s dependence on Chinese imports can be reduced only by developing a domestic ecosystem that boosts and supports drug manufacturers

Bitter Pill

With patients staying away due to the panic created around contracting Covid-19, top hospitals are losing crores from postponement of elective surgeries and check-ups

The Freedom To Get An Education

Despite technological advancements, close to half the country’s children don’t have access to knowledge and learning, even when they go to schools

The Freedom To Access Health Care

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the deep social and economic divisions that make access to affordable and quality health care a distant reality

Work From Village

Many white-collar workers are ditching crowded and costly cities to work from the comfort of their villages and hometowns in the wake of the pandemic

Why Small Is Big, Once Again

As consumers downtrade and first-time buyers view cars as an antidote to public transport in a pandemic, Maruti gets back to what it would do best: Selling minis

THE FREEDOM TO LAUGH

Laughter has not made it to the list of endangered species yet, but runs the risk of it

‘This Is A Time For Leaders To Be Inclusive And Put People First'

Simon Taufel, former international umpire-turned-leadership coach, on how business professionals should steer their companies through the Covid-19 crisis

Learning Without Borders

The national education Policy opens doors for foreign universities to set up campus in India—a policy that has long been in limbo—but its success depends greatly on the next steps of implementation

Tech Rush

As Covid-19 drives small businesses and startups to adopt technology solutions, small and mid-size IT players see growth by providing localised and value-for-money services

HINTERLAND HERO

Hero MotoCorp has seen a sharp rebound on the back of strong rural sales. Can it sustain?

Battling Turbulence

Most airlines are on the verge of crash-landing as the likes of SpiceJet, IndiGo and GoAir face acute losses due to the economic slowdown and Covid-induced lockdowns

Here's to the Crazy Ones

How a clutch of online-first brands has disrupted the traditional way of doing business by shunning the herd mentality and listening to their heart