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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

Toppr: From the old school

How a battery of feet-on-street counsellors that doubles up as a sales army is helping Toppr score in revenue and reach. Will the offline gambit pay off for the edutech startup?

FILA winners: Model leaders

The Forbes India Leadership Awards 2018 honour business icons whose achievements extend beyond financial metrics

Sanjiv Mehta: Creating a faster, nimbler HUL

By decentralising decision-making, he has made it easier for Hindustan Unilever to operate with the speed and swiftness of his smaller rivals

Vivek Chaand Sehgal: Man of many parts

Over the past two decades, he has used strategy and innovation to create a global auto ancillary behemoth. Now, as headwinds mount for the car industry, he is well prepared to battle future challenges

Azim Premji: Building a legacy beyond IT

His work has created in Wipro a global corporation likely to endure. And his philanthropy efforts have become a model for other wealthy persons to emulate

Rajeev Jain: Making size count at Bajaj Finance

Fortified by sound asset-liability management and a rapidly expanding diversified portfolio, he is now pushing for leadership in all segments the company lends to

EESL: Lighting the way

Saurabh Kumar has taken the company from being a mere consultant to becoming one of the world's biggest energy efficiency service providers

Adar Poonawalla: Improving access to vaccines

CEO of the ₹4,837 crore by revenue Serum Institute of India, is looking to grow the low cost, high volume vaccine-maker to ₹10,000 crore by 2022

Power2SME: Making business extra large

How Power2SME leveraged the power of small and medium enterprises by growing seven-fold in four years and is within striking distance of ₹1,000 crore in revenue. The next target: ₹5,000 crore by 2021

Gayathri Vasudevan's labour of love

By enabling seven lakh livelihoods in the informal sector, the LabourNet CEO is aiming to build a profitable, ₹1,000-crore innovative learning company in four years

FILA 2018: Kareena Kapoor Khan is 'Icon of Cinema'

The 38-year-old Bollywood actress got candid with Network18 entertainment editor Rajeev Masand at the eighth Forbes India Leadership Awards held recently

FILA 2018: Teenage entrepreneurs, business leaders share the stage to highlight innovation

Business leaders call for the skill to constantly evolve, both in terms of strategies and leadership in a challenging environment

Disruptive leadership, anybody?

Winners of FILA command authority and respect, yet believe in flat structures, empowered teams and decentralised decision-making

Perennial: Out of limbo

After eight years and a big court battle, the final piece of Pua Seck Guan's landmark Singapore property project is now open

Acer: Get in the game

Jason Chen has Acer refocussed on PCs but aimed at consumers of higher-end hardware

85C bakery cafe: Political roast

Taiwanese-owned chain draws a VIP who is off-limits on the mainland

Bangkok's riverboat queens

Starting a century ago, four generations of women have run a company that ferries people across the Chao Phraya. Now the property business is calling

2U: Ivory tower in the cloud

Long the domain of seedy degree mills peddling debt-laden vocational training, online education is now a priority, and a profit centre, at top-tier universities thanks to innovators like 2U Inc

Aditya Birla Real Estate Fund's fund blues

Eight years on, it is yet to return money to its investors even as it looks to raise its second fund

Thoughts on leadership

The vegan zeitgeist

A growing number of activists, startups and festivals are helping veganism spread across the country. But is it enough to trigger mass-scale adoption?

Harshavardhan Neotia: The restaurateur who eats at home

The chairman of the Ambuja Neotia Group talks about why it is important for him to sharpen his focus on the hospitality business at this stage in his life

Hemingway's Cuban affair

Havana is still as much in love with the Nobel Laureate, as the writer was with it

Billionaire breakups

When wealthy couples decide to part ways, disentangling their relationship requires much more than a regular divorce lawyer