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Scooters to inverters: How Bhavish Aggarwal's many ideas hobbled Ola's EV edge

New Delhi, Jan. 6 -- What do ride-sharing, food delivery, electric scooters, and home inverters have in common? To the casual observer, very little. To Bhavish Aggarwal, the restless founder of the Ol... Read More


Aditya Vikram Birla: The industrial titan who outran the Licence Raj

New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- In the mid-1960s, a young Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-trained chemical engineer returned home to India, which seemed determined to smother his ambition. In the 19... Read More


Company Outsider | From regulations to supply chains: Why Indian companies missed obvious threats in 2025

New Delhi, Dec. 30 -- Indian boardrooms had a peculiar problem in 2025: they kept getting blindsided by predictable events, including regulations with published timelines, supply chain vulnerabilities... Read More


The formative years of Dhirubhai Ambani, India's entrepreneur extraordinaire

New Delhi, Dec. 27 -- A well-known Hindi proverb-honhar birwan ke hote chikne paat-suggests that the signs of future success are visible early. It sums up the early years of Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani... Read More


Can Wipro Consumer turn India's consumption headroom into durable scale?

New Delhi, Dec. 23 -- The consumption headroom in India is vast, while penetration is low. Tap into this gap and growth will follow. That's the parting thesis of Vineet Agrawal, who is retiring as CEO... Read More


Book review: The tragedy of Cafe Coffee Day, a global brand that might have been

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- On 29 July 2019, V.G. Siddhartha, founder of the Cafe Coffee Day chain and sundry other businesses, jumped off a bridge into the swirling waters of the Netravati River in Mangalu... Read More


Verghese Kurien and the power of social entrepreneurship

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- Verghese Kurien could have been a top-notch corporate honcho or even a successful business tycoon. He had both the education qualifications and the business chops to achieve eith... Read More


Company Outsider | From buybacks to buyouts: TCS learns the Accenture playbook as outsourcing slows

New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- Company Outsider is a weekly newsletter by Sundeep Khanna. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. For two decades, Tata Consultancy Services (... Read More


Fallen titan: Re-examining Rajat Gupta's tainted legacy

New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- Rajat Gupta was convicted of securities fraud and sentenced to two years in federal prison in the US. Following his four-week trial under the harsh glare of the arclights, judge ... Read More


Company Outsider: When IndiGo collapsed, its leaders were nowhere to be seen

New Delhi, Dec. 10 -- Company Outsider is a weekly newsletter by Sundeep Khanna. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. A toothless regulator and a dominant player ... Read More