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Crash Of The Titans

Just like elder brother Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani started off on the solid ground prepared by their father Dhirubhai. However, hardly has any other family business seen such sharply contrasted trajectories as theirs. How did Anil Ambani lose the advantage? Nandini Vijayaraghavan traces the journeys of four well-known entrepreneurs whose businesses took off energetically but failed to retain the momentum and ended up struggling for survival

Nandini Vijayaraghavan - March 01, 2023

When Tower Of Xi Dwarfed Modi In The US

Years before India and the US became ‘friends’, there was a time when the oldest and the largest democracies of the world did not see eye to eye. Seema Sirohi draws from her 30 years of experience as a journalist reporting on India-US ties to chart the journey of the two nations from divergence to convergence. Narendra Modi wanted to draw upon these ties to build a name for himself and business for India, but the corporate America was enchanted by the Chinese premier

February 01, 2023

The Balancing Act

To what extent does gender become a liability or a hurdle in the path to success? In her book, Anita Bhogle draws from experiences of women who made different career-related choices, from aggressively marching on to compromising on the job profile or giving it all up for the sake of family duties, to prepare a narrative on the challenges they face 

January 01, 2023

The Scandal That Shook India’s IT Industry

Walking the readers through the birth and meteoric rise of India's IT industry are authors Kris Gopalakrishnan, N. Dayasindhu and Krishnan Narayanan in their latest book Against All Odds - The IT Story of India. 

October 01, 2022

The Making of A Tata Leader

Back in the 1950s, when J.R.D. Tata was looking for all-round officers for the Tata Group’s leadership structure, he was quick to spot a lacuna

August 01, 2022

What’s Cooking At Apple?

In his latest book, After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul, author Tripp Mickle, a New York Times reporter covering Apple, spoke with over 200 former and current Apple employees, its suppliers, competitors, government officials and more to find how the company has fared after Jobs’ death

July 01, 2022

India’s Digital Deluge

In his latest book Digital Leapfrogs: How technology is reshaping consumer markets in India, author Vijay Mahajan explores how the rapid expansion of affordable smartphones and data network access, led by Reliance Jio, has brought new orders of scale to the reach and influence of digital technologies in consumer markets.  

May 01, 2022

The Unabashed Critic

Walking the readers through the nooks and crannies of Rahul Bajaj's personal and professional lives is author Gita Piramal in her latest book Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life. Here is an excerpt from the book:

Outlook Business - April 01, 2022

‘Rahul Bajaj Will Always Be Missed For His Distinctive Voice’

Author Gita Piramal speaks with Outlook Business and shares how Rahul Bajaj stood tall amidst the other business leaders of his time, how he exemplified leadership and why he will be missed

Outlook Business - April 01, 2022

A Real Image Of The Real Economy

In his latest book, The $10 Trillion Dream, author Subhash Chandra Garg, former Finance and Economic Affairs Secretary, Government of India, does a comprehensive analysis of policymaking over the years while talking about how it can define narratives

January 30, 2022

The Economics Of Cooking

It is not everyday that a Nobel-winning economist writes a cookbook, so when Abhijit Banerjee does, you sit up and take notice 

December 01, 2021

Was Tata 'Swadeshi' Enough?

This is an extract from Mircea Raianu's Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism published by Harvard University Press

Mircea Raianu - October 01, 2021