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The importance of being Team Indus
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

The importance of being Team Indus

If Team Indus succeeds in soft landing a spacecraft on the moon and wins the Lunar X Prize, it could set the stage for the company and India to be a big player in space engineering

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Rishikesha T Krishnan

Rishikesha T Krishnan

Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy

Lee Kuan Yew: A leadership style that got results
·Leadership & Organisation

Lee Kuan Yew: A leadership style that got results

Lee turned Singapore into a prosperous, developed nation in one generation. On his first death anniversary, a glimpse into his thoughts on leadership and governance

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How collective ingenuity is changing the world
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

How collective ingenuity is changing the world

Innovation strategist Navi Radjou discusses how innovation in the engineering space is moving away from big proprietary labs, why India and the emerging markets are the next big thing, and what leaders can do to manage these different themes

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Managing the matrix: How to cope with ambiguity and change
·Leadership & Organisation

Managing the matrix: How to cope with ambiguity and change

A matrix organization is more flexible and better able to respond to dynamic situations. But working in a matrix requires a different set of skills than in hierarchical structures. Insights from Kevan Hall’s book ‘Making the Matrix Work’

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The jump to BS-VI and what it means for innovation
·Business & Strategy

The jump to BS-VI and what it means for innovation

The switch to the new emission norms will lead to interesting shifts in the automotive and energy industries

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Rishikesha T Krishnan

Rishikesha T Krishnan

Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy

Resurgent women: The times they are a changin’
·Economy, Policy & Society

Resurgent women: The times they are a changin’

In this edited extract from his book ‘Half a Billion Rising’, Anirudha Dutta says, the coming decade will see more educated women entering the workforce and this will have far-reaching socio-economic implications. Men will have to respect and adapt to live with these changes.

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Anirudha Dutta

Anirudha Dutta

Analyst, Financial services sector

What's common to Hitler and company budgets?
·Leadership & Organisation

What's common to Hitler and company budgets?

Hitler's focus on battles, not the war cost Germany its sovereignty. That's exactly what happens to companies which focus on annual budgets alone.

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K Ramkumar

K Ramkumar

Founder and CEO | Leadership Centre

The state of cancer research and the future of innovation
·Business & Strategy

The state of cancer research and the future of innovation

In India, a focus on public health initiatives and re-engineering of proven drugs and treatments to reduce costs will achieve better results than looking for new cures

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Rishikesha T Krishnan

Rishikesha T Krishnan

Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy

Family comes first at Starbucks China
·Leadership & Organisation

Family comes first at Starbucks China

What can companies whose job roles don’t fit the traditional notions of a good career choice, do to retain staff? Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has a creative solution

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Neelima Mahajan

Neelima Mahajan

Editor in Chief of Think: Act Magazine, Roland Berger

Sam Pitroda: The big dreamer
·Leadership & Organisation

Sam Pitroda: The big dreamer

How Pitroda created a modern digital telecom network, backed by publicly-funded R&D

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Rishikesha T Krishnan

Rishikesha T Krishnan

Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy

Mind the gap: Boosting a climate of entrepreneurship
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Mind the gap: Boosting a climate of entrepreneurship

In this year’s union budget finance minister Arun Jaitley may have sprung a surprise by focusing the government’s entrepreneurship agenda on the bottom of the pyramid. But perhaps that’s what the country really needs

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

Entrepreneurship to improve the world for everyone
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Entrepreneurship to improve the world for everyone

What change makers can do to increase the impact of their enterprises in uplifting the lives of people at the bottom of the pyramid

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Arun Maira

Arun Maira

Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission

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