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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”
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.”
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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
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
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
Founding Fuel
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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Much of the conversation around AI focuses on tools and productivity. This series looks deeper: at how AI is reshaping organisational architecture—how decisions are made, how knowledge flows, and how work itself is organised.
Stories that place the Middle East’s conflicts in a wider global, historical and cultural context.
Reflective travelogues on attention, place, and inner change.
Essays and conversations on AI, institutions, and scale in India.
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