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India is hurting. Why? What next?
·Economy, Policy & Society

India is hurting. Why? What next?

Local systems solutions, investments in healthcare and public institutions, cross-pollination of ideas—a panel moderated by Arun Maira discusses how to extract the economy out of the morass it is in

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What is the shape of the new economy we will build?
·Economy, Policy & Society

What is the shape of the new economy we will build?

CEOs and entrepreneurial founders are rolling up their sleeves to save their businesses and also save livelihoods so that the economy doesn't sink further. An introduction to ‘Survival Strategies’, an urgent theme Founding Fuel is exploring

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Arun Maira

Arun Maira

Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission

Stories from inside India’s corporate war rooms
·Leadership & Organisation

Stories from inside India’s corporate war rooms

Even as they grapple with the operational aspects of the crisis, many business leaders are bringing a beginner’s mind and experimenting. They are discovering slivers of opportunity and preparing for a post COVID-19 world

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

WFH: An unbalancing act (Or, I am distracted!)
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

WFH: An unbalancing act (Or, I am distracted!)

The whole family is at home. I’m bombarded with calls all day. There’s housework too. I can’t find quiet corner to hunker down and focus

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

WFH: Drinking from a fire hose
·Leadership & Organisation

WFH: Drinking from a fire hose

We’ve pitchforked into action without any process or an established way of working. As a leadership team, what can we do right now to handle this disruption and help settle things down inside our enterprise?

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Kavi Arasu

Kavi Arasu

Leadership and Talent Development Professional

Housebound, and working hard
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

Housebound, and working hard

Everyone is working from home. No one knows how long this will last. This is unprecedented. It can be fundamentally transformational as well

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Picasso and the race to develop coronavirus vaccine
·Technology & the Future

Picasso and the race to develop coronavirus vaccine

The amazing ability of living systems to respond to the abstract might help scientists find vaccines for coronavirus faster than before. Plus a roundup of the global effort to minimise the spread of the disease

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

An inflection point is upon us
·Economy, Policy & Society

An inflection point is upon us

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a few important experiments are going on at an unprecedented scale

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Anticipating inflection points
·Business & Strategy

Anticipating inflection points

Insights from Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath’s book ‘Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen’

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D Shivakumar

D Shivakumar

Operating Partner | Advent International

Masterclass: Shaping startup culture
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Masterclass: Shaping startup culture

‘We are customer-driven’, ‘we are data-driven’. Those are typical refrains from companies. But are they really? It all boils down to culture

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The hard questions of our times
·Economy, Policy & Society

The hard questions of our times

The world over, there is a “tribalisation of opinion”. Where are the spaces to listen to people not like us?

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