SEPTEMBER 01 2023

Be Over The Moon

With Chandrayaan 3, India shed light on the darker side of moon in a televised landing, bringing back memories of the extravaganza around the exploits of Apollo 11

Suchetana Ray - September 01, 2023

The Constant Learner

Raghavendra Vaidya, MD and CEO of Daimler Truck Innovation Center India, is a man of varied and deep interests. From riding bikes to automating things at home, from making furniture to constantly studying new subjects and listening to old Hindi songs, he pursues all of them with passion

Chitra Nair - September 01, 2023

Fintech Game Is In The Data Cloud

With customer acquisition and retention as prime drivers, fintech players want data patterns on fingertips. They are embracing data cloud to make a concerted move towards data-informed efficiency and product innovation

Vinita Bhatia - September 01, 2023

Painting The Orchards Red

Coca-Cola India's Project Unnati is rejuvenating the agriculture ecosystem with its focus on efficient farming practices like ultra-high density plantation, drip irrigation, etc. This has helped apple farmers in Uttarakhand significantly raise their productivity and income

Naina Gautam - September 01, 2023

Taking Off Conveniently

No place is far away and no travel plan difficult to make, thanks to online travel companies which have redefined convenience with their range of products and services that cater to every aspect of travel. Rajesh Magow, co-founder and group CEO of online travel company MakeMyTrip, describes five ways in which these companies have come of age in India

The Nowhere Men & Women: How India Abandoned 14 Crore Citizens on a Policy Paper

The government of India runs the world’s biggest food security scheme, which provides free ration to more than 80 crore people. The scheme has won Prime Minister Narendra Modi accolades. But what if we realise that there are over 14 crore people who have been omitted from the benefit of this scheme because the government has not counted Indian citizens in over a decade? Can its intransigence break the welfare structure of governance?

Rajat Mishra  - September 01, 2023

Nothing Can Correct Faulty Sampling Due to Delayed Census: Pronab Sen

The delay in conducting the census, which was due in 2021, is making old population samples less representative, Pronab Sen, head of the Standing Committee on Statistics and former chief statistician of India, says. He insists that there is nothing wrong with the sampling methodologies, rebutting allegations by Shamika Ravi, member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, about the samples of national surveys being faulty. According to him, the discrepancies that she has referred to were because of the difference in purpose-specific definitions

Rajat Mishra  - September 01, 2023

SEBI’s Got Indian Thoughts On ESG Push

The markets regulator has, from time to time, updated the terms of environmental, social and governance compliance for corporates. Its latest direction, BRSR Core, is aimed at ensuring better transparency in ESG reporting. While BRSR Core can bring in an additional burden in terms of compliance and costs, it also provides an opportunity to businesses to prepare themselves for global markets

Naina Gautam - September 01, 2023

Emami’s Persistent Bear Hug

After more than four successful decades, FMCG major Emami, which owns popular brands like Navratna oil, BoroPlus, Kesh King, etc., seems to be losing its charm among retail investors. Why has it lost significant value at the bourses in the last five years?

Devanshu Singla - September 01, 2023

Byju On The Corporate Guillotine

Will educator-turned-entrepreneur Byju Raveendran be sidelined in—or even ousted from—his eponymous edtech as the newly constituted board advisory council struggles to bring the company back on to the profitability path?

Vinita Bhatia - September 01, 2023

The Imbalances In India’s Growth Story

There is a serious lack of understanding regarding the connections between the real economy and the financial economy, says author Nikhil Gupta. This interconnectedness is what makes the economy a complex subject to understand. In his book, The Eight Per Cent Solution, Gupta harps on the need to make fundamental structural changes if the country wants to attain 8% economic growth rate

Kinship & Business: The Saga of Indian Family Businesses

The family that stays together grows together. After featuring the success of 17 centennial companies of India in the previous issue as part of the 17th anniversary celebration of Outlook Business, we now follow the growth trail of five family-run business groups in the country, each founded by visionary individuals and nurtured by subsequent generations into successful conglomerates. They have weathered many a storm in their several-decades-long journeys and managed to stick together, each finding its own strategy for growth.