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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

Titans of the North

North India may not top the investment charts but is home to some of the country's biggest companies

Culture and success: Leveraging the best and transcending the worst of our heritages

A bamboo ceiling or a culture of shyness among Asians?

The math behind the RCom-Aircel merger

New entity will have benefits of scale, but existing debt can hinder required investments

Make a great first impression with these stylish business card holders

Protect your good name with a stylish business-card holder

Poll: What are the current big concerns of Indian CEOs?

Dr. Dre by the numbers: Charting a decade of earnings

Thoughts on time

We are focussed on made in India, for India, by India, says LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner

With a user base of over 37 million, India is a market LinkedIn cannot ignore. With its recent India-specific product launches, the platform has firmly set its sights on the long term, says CEO Jeff Weiner

How Naiyya Saggi built BabyChakra into a mothers' social network

Integrating community, content and commerce, Mumbai-based startup BabyChakra aims to build a one-stop ecosystem for baby care

Pedalling to work? You don't have to break a sweat

Already massive in China and popular in Europe, electric bikes are making inroads in the US. An MIT engineer thinks his throwback design will win over city dwellers

Vegan veteran Follow Your Heart wakes up to VC-backed competitors

For more than 40 years Follow Your Heart has been quietly selling health-conscious foods. Now VCs are backing fast-growing competitors

The Wizard of Apps: How Jeff Lawson built Twilio into the mightiest unicorn

The hottest stock in America, Twilio, is a company you've never heard of. It uses the cloud to put communications everywhere

GlaxoSmithKline takes its medicines: How Andrew Witty patched up the sick drugmaker

Andrew Witty inherited a drugmaker sick with scandal and spent the next eight years patching up his patient. GlaxoSmithKline may finally be well again

Chinese tourists win big for Australian casinos

Flush from a run at the Asian VIP casino take, Aussie operators gird for a wider resorts battle

A step above: Shoemaker Jack Erwin is disrupting the market for affordable footwear

Three-year-old shoemaker Jack Erwin disrupted the footwear market by cutting out the middleman. Can it make the next leap forward?

North Indian business is on a growth path, but it has miles to go

While northern states like Rajasthan and UP have stepped up investor-friendly policies, much more needs to be done to attain global standards of doing business

Past tense, present perfect, future ready: How Hero MotoCorp has put the Honda split behind it

Over the last five years, Hero MotoCorp and its chief Pawan Munjal have put the Honda split behind them and built R&D capabilities to consolidate the company's position as a two-wheeler behemoth

Apollo Tyres' quest for a global grip

Despite initial missteps in its pursuit of international stature, Apollo Tyres is still in the game. Along the way, it has not lost sight of the Indian market

Foreigners don't question consumer firm valuations, says Dabur CEO Sunil Duggal

Sunil Duggal, CEO of Dabur, talks about his experience at the helm of a family-owned but professionally-run company, revival in consumer sentiment, and Patanjali's peripheral damage

The next show: PVR's game plan to consolidate its pole position

India's largest multiplex chain PVR has adopted a customer-first approach to retain loyalists and grab a larger share of out-of-home entertainment