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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

How we picked the FILA 2022 winners

Forbes India Leadership Awards 2022 honours entrepreneurs, professional CEOs and more, who have achieved corporate excellence, turned around business fortunes in a challenging year, and weren't afraid to innovate

From Harsh Mariwala to Ashu Suyash: Meet the FILA 2022 jury

They are the decision makers of the Forbes India Leadership Awards 2022. Meet the expert jury

FILA 2022 Unique Unicorn: OfBusiness and the real joker in the pack

Industrial goods and service procurement platform OfBusiness is the recipient of the inaugural FILA 2022 Unique Unicorn awards, and as cofounder Asish Mohapatra learnt a long time ago— the odd one out in a pack isn't the joker but the one who has the last laugh

'What happens when a Gujju and a Baniya start a business?' You get boAt

While modern founders are known to pick growth over profitability in their early years, FILA 2022 Outstanding Startup winner boAt's cofounders Aman Gupta and Sameer Mehta have watched their bottomline with a hawk's eye since the first year of operations, and it has catapulted the audio and wearables company to the top across categories

Product manager. Entrepreneur. Public company CEO: Who's the real Girish Mathrubootham?

The answer would be—all of them. By believing his employees, fostering fearless experimentation based on hard data, the CEO of Freshworks has taken a small outfit from a nondescript Chennai suburb to a $400 million revenue Nasdaq-listed Silicon Valley company

How Metro Brands is evolving into a future-ready business with Farah Malik Bhanji and Alisha Malik

From leading an IPO to finding the right blend of offline and online retail, and a professional CEO, the third generation entrepreneurs are helping pivot and grow Metro Brands

Healthy people are happy people: Apollo Hospitals' Dr Prathap Reddy's mantra

Dr Reddy has been providing quality healthcare in India since 1983, and there are no signs of him slowing down as the FILA 2022 Lifetime Achievement awardee says, 'health has no holiday'

How Sandeep Bakhshi has quietly but firmly turned around ICICI Bank

Bakhshi's mantras which are, simply, well accepted banking principles have been executed perfectly by ICICI's executives—and the CEO has succeeded in nearly erasing memories of a troubled legacy while making it poised to be a benchmark for other banks

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

Waves coming in and out: How to deal with market volatility, experts advise

A roller coaster ride is part and parcel of investing in the markets, highlighted especially since March 2020 when they have plummeted and reached all-time highs, only to tumble again thanks to Russia-Ukraine. Here are some ground rules you can follow

The rise of 'sophisticated' investors

Alternative Investment Funds as an asset class has seen a 38 percent jump in commitments raised from domestic investors, highlighting the rise of investment in private funds

Gold glitters as a safe haven amid global uncertainty

The yellow metal has outperformed the US dollar as well as global bonds despite Covid-19 and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Juan Carlos Artigas, global head of research, World Gold Council writes

Commodity price rise temporary, no super cycle yet: Naveen Mathur

Liquidity pumping or weather shocks or the ongoing war can be attributed to the rising prices of commodities across the table. The current bull rally, termed a super-cycle, would require a structural change followed by strong consistent demand over several years, especially from China, Anand Rathi Share and Stock Brokers' Mathur writes

Cognizant founder to PE: Inside Francisco D'Souza's new innings

After helping build Cognizant into one of the world's most valuable IT services giants from scratch, Francisco D'Souza is now switching gears with a global PE fund to back tomorrow's winners in the same sector

Mindtree founders turn VC. Their aim: Create 8-10 mini Mindtrees

Founders of the IT services company, Krishnakumar Natarajan and Parthasarathy NS are embarking on a new journey with their operator-led VC firm Mela. They will back desi startups in enterprise business

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