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The silence of the lambs
·Business & Strategy

The silence of the lambs

The Tata-Mistry fight isn’t just about washing dirty linen in public. It is a wake-up call for Indian enterprises to start the cleansing process from within

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Shanghai Disney’s Chinese track and fighting obesity with taxes
·Business & Strategy

Shanghai Disney’s Chinese track and fighting obesity with taxes

Business strategist Rajesh Srivastava analyses some of the recent news: Shanghai Disney’s glocal strategy and its clash with local rival Wanda City, and whether a tax on junk food is enough to fight obesity

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Rajesh Srivastava

Rajesh Srivastava

Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author

What a fable about meerkats tells us about innovation
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

What a fable about meerkats tells us about innovation

Discipline and maverick ideas—both are necessary for dealing with rapid change and coming out ahead, say John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber in their book ‘That’s Not How We Do It Here’

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D Shivakumar

D Shivakumar

Operating Partner | Advent International

Dan Ariely’s advice for decision making: Understanding our minds
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

Dan Ariely’s advice for decision making: Understanding our minds

In this interview with Dan Ariely, the author of 'Predictably Irrational' and 'The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty' discusses our mental frailties and how they can help with our decision making in the modern world

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CKGSB Knowledge

Knowledge Partner

This week in disruptive tech—October 3, 2016
·Artificial Intelligence

This week in disruptive tech—October 3, 2016

A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: A new partnership to make Artificial Intelligence beneficial to people; autonomous vehicles and online education; Elon Musk’s plan to colonise Mars

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

Has Samsung Electronics been fired?
·Business & Strategy

Has Samsung Electronics been fired?

Recalling 2.5 million handsets is the best decision a leader can make argues an outlier. Consensus and evidence says it is the worst

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Why we might be reading the data wrong
·Business & Strategy

Why we might be reading the data wrong

Among other things, the problem might lie with our inadequate understanding of the domain we are trying to map through data

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Nitin Srivastava

Nitin Srivastava

CEO | Toqfactor Technologies

How Design Thinking can help the Swachh Bharat Mission
·Economy, Policy & Society

How Design Thinking can help the Swachh Bharat Mission

The mission will succeed—or fail—because of people. And to get people involved, we need to reframe the problem and identify ways for each set of stakeholders to contribute

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Amrita Chowdhury

Amrita Chowdhury

Director | Gaia Smart Cities

Will India’s tryst with online courses pay off?
·Economy, Policy & Society

Will India’s tryst with online courses pay off?

The opportunity to transform higher education is enormous. Yet much will depend on whether faculty in our places of higher learning are able to handle the transition to this brave, new world

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Paper Boat: Riding on a wave of nostalgia
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Paper Boat: Riding on a wave of nostalgia

In this video, Neeraj Kakkar, co-founder of the Paper Boat brand and Shripad Nadkarni, an investor in the brand, talk about the magic formula that got people hooked and which helped them create a new beverages segment—ethnic drinks

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Rajesh Srivastava

Rajesh Srivastava

Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author

Life lessons from Kris Gopalakrishnan
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Life lessons from Kris Gopalakrishnan

The co-founder of Infosys Technologies and founder of Axilor Ventures opens up in an intensely personal conversation on the various stages of life

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How India’s digital economy can rediscover its mojo
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

How India’s digital economy can rediscover its mojo

The recent crisis of confidence brought by the unicorn meltdowns isn't for real. India’s digital economy is actually poised for a bright future. Just that we need a new lens to look at the real opportunities

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Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur