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Company Outsider | The CEO shuffle: Massive disruption prompts global hunt for agile, adaptive leadership

New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- The global economic scenario is unraveling at breakneck speed, with artificial intelligence (AI) and tariff wars its most visible drivers. From boardrooms in Mumbai to Cincinnati,... Read More


Chanakya: The Indian economy savant who first spelt out wealth as the root of power

New Delhi, Aug. 2 -- Two thousand years before Adam Smith's theory of the invisible hand transformed economic thought, an Indian Brahmin with a razor-sharp mind was quietly drawing up the blueprint fo... Read More


Harpal Singh Randhawa: The Indian outlier who defied geography to build an African fortune

New Delhi, July 26 -- "Pick yourself up and dust yourself off, get back in the saddle." -from Shakira's Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) Shakira's 2010 FIFA World Cup anthem, which celebrated Africa... Read More


Corporate Outsider | Tesla and Mahindra: A drive in parallel universes

New Delhi, July 23 -- Company Outsider is a weekly newsletter by Sundeep Khanna. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) group chairman Ana... Read More


How tyre baron Raunaq Singh lost his empire-but cemented his legacy

New Delhi, July 19 -- The partition of India in 1947 upended millions of lives on both sides of the newly drawn border. Yet, amid the devastation, it gave rise to a generation of Indian entrepreneurs ... Read More


Company Outsider | Why no one blows the whistle until a short-seller turns up

New Delhi, July 16 -- The reaction to US-based short seller Viceroy Research's scathing report on the Vedanta Group was as predictable as it was performative. The company, not surprisingly, called the... Read More


Brijmohan Lall Munjal's four-stroke engine of grit, gumption, resilience and humility

New Delhi, July 12 -- The eyes were the first thing you noticed about Brijmohan Lall Munjal, founder of the Hero Group and a titan of Indian industry. They were steady, unhurried, and kind, speaking o... Read More


Company Outsider | The Paranjpe paradox: Sustainability in an era of shareholder scrutiny

New Delhi, July 9 -- Nitin Paranjpe, Chairman of Hindustan Unilever (HUL), articulates a sentiment echoed by many leaders of global corporations: the pressing need for environmentally responsible grow... Read More


The original unicorn: How Annamalai Chettiar built India's first financial powerhouse

New Delhi, July 5 -- Long before the first unicorns and decacorns appeared in India, there lived an entrepreneur who had an innate understanding of scale and an uncanny ability to leverage diaspora ne... Read More


Company Outsider | Novelis and after: How Hindalco cracked the foreign buyout code

New Delhi, July 2 -- Hindalco Industries, the metals flagship of the Aditya Birla Group, offers a compelling case study in how strategic overseas acquisitions can deliver substantial long-term gains. ... Read More