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Can edtech replace classroom teaching?
Few sectors, like banking and payments, can replace the physical with the digital. But there are many sectors where digital is at best a supplement. Like education, where tech tools and platforms are excellent value-adds for personalised learning but probably not a replacement for classroom teaching
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Esports, streaming, to fantasy gaming: Inside our sports tech special
In this fortnight's special package on sports tech, we look at the various segments that make up this rapidly growing new-age sector: Casual gaming, Web3, NFT and blockchain-based gaming, esports, sports streaming, sports content and commerce, sporting, experiences platforms. And there's the biggest and perhaps most controversial piece of the pie: Fantasy sports
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Rising temperatures, and tides: Inside our Climate Special
This fortnight's climate special takes a 360-degree view of the climate crisis, from manufacturers like GE that are adapting to the need for a decarbonised world, to startups working on tech innovations, and investors and philanthropists backing for-profit and not-for-profit models
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The evolution of IT to Saas in India
Our special package this fortnight is on the post-Zoho effect: A flourishing SaaS sector with around 1,500 companies clocking over $2 billion in annual revenues
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India's billionaires: Celebrating wealth as a by-product of innovation, creativity
Many of the Indian billionaires who made it to the list—166, totally—have grown their wealth by building assets and providing services that benefit consumers and investors
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Can D2C brands maintain their growth momentum?
As the pandemic gripped the world, nascent direct-to-consumer (D2C), or digital-first brands, hit the fast lane. The business case was made pre-pandemic for such labels that bypass traditional marketing and rely instead on online influencers to build a customer connect. It has worked, now can they sustain the growth momentum?
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2022 Investment Special: Bulls, bears, pigs and chicken of the street
If you look back from this point, it's obvious who the winners and losers are—those who got in or increased their exposure in the early days of the pandemic, and those who attempted to ride the boom late last year, in that order. But there's another breed that has quietly reaped in more than modest gains
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Forbes India Leadership Awards 2022: Meet the changemakers
The Forbes India Leadership Awards (FILA) is a celebration of leaders who were able to redefine and, or transform their businesses during a crisis—a pandemic
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Employee well-being: From perk to best practice
The pandemic has evolved the HR lexicon to include empathy, compassion, human connection and care; the challenge of course is to ensure that this new engagement permeates through the entire organisation. And those organisations that succeeded make it to the annual Forbes India-Kincentric Best Employers in India study
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How startup CFOs and finance heads are emerging as new-age strategists
In the digital era, CFOs are at the heart of strategy and making decisions, not just supporting them
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Forbes India 30 Under 30: The dynamic, diverse young achievers
The Forbes India team was cognisant of the relevance of variety when firming up the annual 30 under 30 list—on which you will find young men and women that lend diversity across dimensions from gender to geography