·Business & Strategy
Eight best business books of 2023
An annual round up of the most memorable books of the year
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Does the current US-China detente signal a thawing of relations?
Neither of them wants an economic MAD (mutually assured destruction), and this is a tactical pause. This is the third column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal
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G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
·Economy, Policy & Society
Caught in existential dilemmas, how is Europe’s political thinking shaping up?
Europe is caught between the left and right, antisemitism and Islamophobia, accepting asylum seekers and pushing back boats. The time for a delicate balancing act may be over. This is the second column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal
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Sir Graham Watson
Distinguished Visiting Fellow | University of Toronto - Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
·Economy, Policy & Society
Is the world increasingly becoming a dangerous place to live?
The existential threat to human civilization is not from wars, but from nuclear disaster and climate change. This is the first in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal
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Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group
·Leadership & Organisation
Indian cricket’s moment of truth
BCCI faces a set of crucial decisions ahead that could set the pace for the future
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Why building corporate democracies still matter
In this age of AI, creating an employee-first culture may seem counter-intuitive. But not if you believe in the primacy of building human relationships at the workplace
IG
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Thompson ad mortem. Who cares?
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
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Shekar Swamy
MD & Group CEO | R K SWAMY Ltd
·Economy, Policy & Society
Masterclass: Making Sense of the Hamas-Israel War
What does the war mean for the world? A discussion with Sundeep Waslekar
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Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Behind ITC’s hotels demerger
Chairman and MD Sanjiv Puri is trying to kill three birds with one stone
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
China's economic shift: Politics trumps growth
Despite the slowdown in its economy, Xi Jinping has not intervened with a stimulus package. The reason is a big shift in his policy, which is focused on building self-reliance. And this China Dream calls for patience and collective sacrifice by the Chinese nation
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G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The risk taker
What makes Elon Musk tick? Insights from the biography by Walter Isaacson
DS
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Business & Strategy
Noel Tata’s brahmastra
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
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
FF Life: The mental accountant
We are hardwired to think of money in multiple categories based on its purpose or context. At the same time, we are naturally afraid of losses of any type. These biases greatly influence our purchasing and investment decisions
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Krishna Jha
Independent investor
·Economy, Policy & Society
A river in spate, landslides and nature’s fury
Climate change and growing urbanisation is slowly but surely changing a way of life in Himachal Pradesh. A tale of two ordinary villages and one town that are not on the tourist map
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Sveta Basraon
Editor and Head of Operations | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
Fintech Special Report Part 1: Indian fintech at a crossroad
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
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel