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The struggle inside Tata Trusts is exposing a question that goes far beyond personalities: can an unusual compact between philanthropy, ownership and corporate power survive the loss of the steward who held it together?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
The most customer-centric companies know when to listen, when to engage—and when to get out of the way.
S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri
Strategic Growth & Innovation Expert | Visiting Professor
The debate is not simply about an IPO. It is about whether patient capital, stewardship and social purpose depend upon privacy, or can be protected through a different institutional architecture.
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
When incumbents buy, partner or outsource the capabilities demanded by each new disruption, they may solve today’s problem. The harder question is whether the parent company itself is still learning.
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
A look at why standalone institutions continue to dominate postgraduate management in India, and what schools of management inside multidisciplinary universities must do if they hope to compete
S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri
Strategic Growth & Innovation Expert | Visiting Professor
Strategy fails not from lack of information, but from outdated assumptions about what it implies
Debleena Majumdar & Arjo Basu
Why the Omnicom - Interpublic deal reveals a deeper failure of imagination in advertising
Shekar Swamy
MD & Group CEO | R K SWAMY Ltd
A field report on family ownership, continuity, and the craft of building for the long term
Upamanyu Bhattacharya
Professor of Retail | S P Jain Institute of Management & Research
Ten of our best work through the year—on business, leadership, and geopolitical trends
Founding Fuel
Why India’s corporate leaders can no longer separate digital risk from strategic resilience
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Products succeed when they answer what people feel, not just what they need
Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
The real job of management is managing the not always compatible expectations of stakeholders, says John Kay. The organizations that have been successful in the long run are the ones that managed these balances. Part 2 of a two-part conversation
Founding Fuel
A brand’s attempt at relevance and how AI worked for it. An extract from Sangeet Paul Choudary’s new book, “Reshuffle”
Founding Fuel
Sangeet Paul Choudary in conversation with Shrinath V on how AI is changing business strategy. Part one of the two-part podcast: “The Next Game: Competing When AI Changes the Rules.”
Founding Fuel
Sangeet Paul Choudary, author of ‘Reshuffle’, in conversation with Shrinath V. The final in a 2-part podcast: ‘The Next Game: Competing When AI Changes the Rules’
Founding Fuel
In conversation with D Shivakumar, the acclaimed economist revisits the soul of business—from Boeing’s fall to Apple's hollow shell—and what real strategy should look like
Founding Fuel
In chasing tech transformation, WPP’s board may have overlooked the nuances of its own business. And that could put the company in play
Shekar Swamy
MD & Group CEO | R K SWAMY Ltd
Insights from Martin Reeves and Bob Goodson’s new book, ‘Like’
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
The best books of the year on how the past informs the future, tackling tough situations, and technology
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
SoftBank insider Alok Sama talks about the mind of the investment company’s iconic founder Masayoshi Son, how venture capital operates, the tech bros, India’s true potential, and more
Founding Fuel
Iconic brands have a strong core. Any attempt to transform the core, driven by big consumer and lifestyle changes, can be particularly tricky, as global sportswear brand Nike discovered recently
Harsh Vardhan
Strategy Consultant
Why businesses need a holistic climate action plan. Now!
Founding Fuel
Propelled by the Toyota and Suzuki partnership, the resurgence of hybrids is a signal that the electric mobility revolution in India may take a lot longer than was assumed
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
An extract from Harit Nagpal’s new book ‘Adapt: To Thrive, Not Just Survive’ on how the new CEO of an AC company that ranked fourth in a market of six big players, found a sustainable differentiator: making the company “easy to deal with”
Founding Fuel
At the heart of the fintech major’s precarious slide lies the abject failure of its Super App strategy. But that’s just one part of the story.
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Marketing lessons from the Poonam Pandey episode
Vivek Sharma
Founder | Altivyst Advisors
An annual round up of the most memorable books of the year
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
Why did WPP decide to snuff out the identities of three of its most storied agencies—Thompson, Y&R and Wunderman—to create a new entity VML, the world’s largest creative company? The clues lie in the stock markets—and the immense pressures acting on its CEO Mark Read
Shekar Swamy
MD & Group CEO | R K SWAMY Ltd
Chairman and MD Sanjiv Puri is trying to kill three birds with one stone
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
His value lifestyle brand Zudio has caught the attention of the entire retail industry. It also signals a coming of age of retail in small town India
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
The outlook for fintech companies has shifted from unchecked optimism to uncertainty. The rose-tinted glasses are off and some of the well-funded companies are pivoting. Their future will depend on their ability to look beyond technology as the panacea. Part 1 of a 4-part series
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
The ground reality has changed. Fintechs are realising that partnerships and ecosystem thinking are key to winning the market, not competing with the incumbents. Part 2 of a 4-part series
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
Here’s a pattern that I’ve observed throughout my career: incumbents mostly lose; they somehow survive but don’t thrive. An incumbent growing faster than the market over a decade is more an exception, rather than the rule.
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
Book Review: ‘Sustainable Business Model Design - 45 Patterns’ by Florian Ludeke-Freund, Henning Breuer, and Lorenzo Massa
Founding Fuel
The three-month-long takeover saga is reaching its climax. What happens next? (Updated on December 6, and December 24, 2022)
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
August 4, 2022: Admitting weakness; How CIA killed al-Zawahiri; Ironies never sleep
Founding Fuel
More than two-and-a-half months have passed since Adani announced its intent. And yet there is no sign of a quick closure, as it was widely anticipated
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
July 20, 2022: Parle-G versus Udaan; Elon Musk’s madness; Summer explained
Founding Fuel
July 19, 2022: NSE’s old war horse; Age is just a number; Exponential thinking
Founding Fuel
July 11, 2022: The superapp fascination; Abe: The original democrat; Critics and artists
Founding Fuel
June 30, 2022: Business and science; Managing Twitter; Cryptic clues
Founding Fuel
June 29, 2022: Decoding Agnipath; India’s gig economy; Bare your soul
Founding Fuel
June 21, 2022: The Sridhar Vembu story; Musk on Twitter; Confusion compounded
Founding Fuel
As the Adani group pushes through the doors at NDTV, owners Prannoy and Radhika Roy find themselves with their backs to the wall. What are their options?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
The aggressive billionaire’s dramatic attempt to take over one of the country’s best known media firms has set the cat among the pigeons. Will Prannoy and Radhika Roy stand their ground? Here are the possible scenarios. (This is a developing story and we are updating it as things unfold. The latest update was on 31 August, 2022)
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
Sridhar Vembu and Sharad Sharma talk about creating resilient, uniquely Indian companies; questioning buzzwords and received wisdom; investing in deep tech; and more
Founding Fuel
May 9, 2022: The danger of a single story; The trouble with Congress; Quality vs. price
Founding Fuel
April 18, 2022: What’s new about Tata Neu?; What’s Elon Musk up against?; Mad at aggregators?
Founding Fuel
April 13, 2022: Teenage sadness; On Sevantibhai of Kolkata; No country for foodies
Founding Fuel
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