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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
Why the Omnicom - Interpublic deal reveals a deeper failure of imagination in advertising
Shekar Swamy
MD & Group CEO | R K SWAMY Ltd
Products succeed when they answer what people feel, not just what they need
Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
A brand’s attempt at relevance and how AI worked for it. An extract from Sangeet Paul Choudary’s new book, “Reshuffle”
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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.”
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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’
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Insights from Martin Reeves and Bob Goodson’s new book, ‘Like’
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
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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!
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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
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
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
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July 20, 2022: Parle-G versus Udaan; Elon Musk’s madness; Summer explained
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July 19, 2022: NSE’s old war horse; Age is just a number; Exponential thinking
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July 11, 2022: The superapp fascination; Abe: The original democrat; Critics and artists
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June 30, 2022: Business and science; Managing Twitter; Cryptic clues
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June 21, 2022: The Sridhar Vembu story; Musk on Twitter; Confusion compounded
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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
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April 18, 2022: What’s new about Tata Neu?; What’s Elon Musk up against?; Mad at aggregators?
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April 13, 2022: Teenage sadness; On Sevantibhai of Kolkata; No country for foodies
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Hari Menon, co-founder & CEO, BigBasket, deconstructs e-commerce’s latest obsession with superfast delivery
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Is it even a super app? Or a coalition loyalty programme? A loyalty business veteran dissects the challenges and complexities the Tatas—and customers—will have to grapple with
Harsh Vardhan
Strategy Consultant
April 6, 2022: The evolution of Tata’s super app; The solo capitalist ecosystem; Two factor authentication
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March 1, 2022: A Third World Axis?; How 10-minute deliveries work; Theory of relativity
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January 17, 2022: Decoding Omicron; The Turing trap; The problem with masses
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December 13, 2021: Be customer-obsessed; How to communicate during the pandemic; Why map is not the territory
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November 17, 2021: How Indian innovation changed over the last two decades; Death by meetings; Delhi Confidential
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Why did the IT major mess up the high-profile government project? No one quite knows the answer. The clues, however, lie in the inherent difficulties in executing tech projects for the government
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
July 1, 2021: A policy window to make healthcare efficient; How Moderna works; Be mindful
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May 7, 2021: The business of ‘sterile’ test swab sticks; Toyota revisits Just in Time; Music for the day: Ode to Joy
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EY’s recent report on media and entertainment calls it an industry under renovation. What is changing? How should those in the business look at reinventing the business model? Veterans from the industry discuss the lay of the land
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April 16, 2021: The subconscious brain’s biases; How to solve problems by cutting down, rather than adding up; Mark Zuckerberg on WhatsApp
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February 15, 2021: How Clubhouse keeps users engaged; Ray Dalio on Bitcoin; What kind of a human are you?
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January 6, 2021: The coming consolidation in retail; How to conduct better meetings; Tea art of remembering
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December 9, 2020: A slice of history; Building new businesses in the new scheme of things; Learnings from 2020; Who wants a vaccine?
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How can businesses claw their way back, past survival and into growth? They’ll need to conserve cash, clean up their governance so that banks will not hesitate to lend, and embrace digital transformation. Highlights from a panel discussion organised by Ficci Flo
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The troika of Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto and TVS Motor have built an unassailable position in India. What will it take to win other markets, especially Southeast Asia?
Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
The Growth Factor: Ecommerce giants, startups, and the problem with co-opetition; innovations in the wedding industry; Amazon’s big exports push
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
The Growth Factor: How Ramraj Cotton veshtis became a brand; how the pandemic is making exclusion worse; Khadi: sales are up, but what about employment?
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
July 14: Why this might be a good time to increase salaries; what today’s businesses can learn from print ads that went digital; why sequencing matters
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The Growth Factor: The way ahead for Kanchipuram’s silk sari weavers; what MSMEs can learn from the school of fish; can MSMEs account for 60% of exports in two years
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
What experiments are being tried on the ground? How are developers and proptech businesses approaching the new normal? And what other shifts need to happen?
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June 11: Be customer-centric, move early, give space for serendipity, innovate with what you have
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In the lockdown, business is literally closed. And much ground is already lost to Bangladesh and Vietnam. It will take a mindset shift at many levels for the sector to reclaim lost ground
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