Leadership
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Forbes India Entrepreneur of the Year: Supam Maheshwari and the FirstCry empire
From online retail to omnichannel, Supam Maheshwari has continued to build deeper moats over the last 15 years, helping FirstCry emerge as India's biggest omnichannel retailer of children's products
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Forbes India Leadership Awards 2025: An evening celebrating excellence in India Inc
Celebrating excellence in leadership, innovation, and impact--Forbes India Leadership Awards 2025 honours visionaries redefining the future. Witness the trailblazers such as Rajesh Jejurikar of M&M, Supam Maheshwari of FirstCry, and Puneet Chhatwal of IHCL, who inspire change and set new benchmarks. Explore the moments that shaped this year's most prestigious leadership celebration
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Forbes India CEO of the Year: M&M's Rajesh Jejurikar, the risk taker
Jejurikar and his team have successfully revitalised their SUV portfolio, created new categories and now launched flagship electric-origin SUVs. Stakeholders cheer the 'risky' moves
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Nikola's hydrogen-powered rigs: The Bentley of trucks
Struggling US truck maker Nikola's hydrogen-powered rigs are now winning over drivers. Now to tackle how to fuel them
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Inside the 2025 Forbes India Leadership Awards
The Forbes India Leadership Awards honour corporate leaders who are taking hard decisions for businesses to succeed despite the challenges
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Next Gen, Family Office, and Fear of the Unknown
The real question is not whether heirs run factories or manage investments, it is whether they are creating value. As we highlight the handful who take the easy route, it is also necessary to acknowledge those who are shaping industries, embracing technology, and driving change. What we see may be a reimagining of the responsibility, not a retreat
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India needs to move from being world's back office to R&D ecosystem: TCA Ranganathan
The former chairman of EXIM Bank of India writes that the interesting part of India's growth story is that our R&D spend as a percentage of GDP is quite low, less than a third of the global average of 2 percent of GDP
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Indian talent base is extremely strong and has earned its scale and size and Boeing: Salil Gupte
Gupte, president, Boeing India, on the American aircraft maker's GCC operations in India, and how it has been tapping into talent here to build aircraft for the world
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There's a little bit of India in every Mercedes in the world: Manu Saale
As vehicles become more technology-enabled, the German automaker's R&D arm in India has emerged as a crucial vertical for the company, the MD & CEO of Mercedes-Benz R&D India talks to Forbes India
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As GCCs mature, Tier II and III locations will become attractive
A growing number of companies are beginning to go beyond the metros to tap a valuable tech talent pool that is seen as equally hungry to learn and contribute as its big-city counterpart but less prone to churn
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Indian GCCs and the talent landscape
The rise of the GCCs in India is happening at a time when the country's biggest IT services companies have stopped hiring in large numbers, faced with cost-cutting and demand for AI-led automation among clients