·Business & Strategy
Why Costco's online-first approach in China is a smart strategy
Its virtual store allows it to test the waters without making a big investment and by riding the wave of the country's e-commerce boom
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
20 things to think of for angel investors
Pointers from a veteran who has been investing from the early days of the internet in India. As he says, "Made it on some, and failed on many."
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
·Leadership & Organisation
Volkswagen: The Difficulty of Being Good and the Ease of Being a Cheat
What the Volkswagen saga is telling us is this: We may get away with cheating for some time because of our good reputation. But we will get caught and the repercussions can be terrible
BP
Baba Prasad
President and CEO, Vivékin Group
·Business & Strategy
Why iPhone SE may lose out in India and why Amazon wants to open bookstores
Business strategist Rajesh Srivastava analyses some of the news that dominated headlines in March
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Rajesh Srivastava
Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader, Educator & Bestselling Author
·Business & Strategy
Clayton Christensen: The man who changed how we see disruptive innovation
Remembering the man, his ideas and body of work, through a professional association spanning 15 years
NM
Neelima Mahajan
Editor in Chief of Think: Act Magazine, Roland Berger
·Leadership & Organisation
Jeff Bezos and the power of leadership to drive change
This Week: How incumbents innovate, Flipkart’s fightback, why Aadhaar matters—and more
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Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
The b-school campus placement BS—and how to clean it up
This is the time of year when thousands of young MBAs go through their rites of passage. Yet for a while now, campus placement in India’s busi-ness schools have hopelessly derailed. And it’ll take considerable effort and a bunch of new ideas to get them back on track
IG
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Building Your Company's Infrastructure
Why it is important to create infrastructure - something for others to build on and something to leave behind as a legacy
AU
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Behind Naresh Goyal’s wilful blindness
Naresh Goyal’s miscalculations, how technology amplifies human bias and what makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial
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Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Here's to the Crazy Ones
You don't have to be mentally imbalanced to become an entrepreneur. But if you are, occasionally it helps
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·Business & Strategy
12 business stories from 2015 and how they will play out in 2016
Business strategist Rajesh Srivastava analyses the secret behind the success of Baba Ramdev's Patanjali, the rise of Kabaddi, Uber's strategy, Maggi Noodles' comeback, Google and Facebook's drive to control last-mile connectivity, and more
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Rajesh Srivastava
Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader, Educator & Bestselling Author
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
The world as seen by Michael Phelps
Listening to the greatest Olympian ever offers life lessons that can be extrapolated into multiple domains
CA
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Suspending labour laws means paving a road to nowhere
Far from bringing in new business, the wholescale suspension of labour laws by some states poses a real danger of unleashing mistrust among factory workers. For the move is fair neither to workers nor to employers
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K Ramkumar
Founder and CEO, Leadership Centre
·Business & Strategy
Why e-commerce consolidation is no panacea
The euphoria around Flipkart’s recent acquisition of Jabong may be a tad misplaced. After all, there are far bigger competitive issues at stake that could define the next phase of growth of Indian e-commerce
HC
Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
·Business & Strategy
Rajesh Patil is building a different kind of real estate firm - and reaping the rewards
The maverick chairman of leading Pune-based realtor Kolte-Patil Developers is scripting a transformation story that's turned every known precept on its head and made him an outcast in his own industry
IG
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel