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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

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader is worth a read

Inside the world of a young maverick who founded the world's most valuable public company

Katy Perry: Woman of the world

Katy Perry earned $135 million this year—more than any other entertainer on Earth. How the sheltered daughter of born-again ministers became America's top pop export

British chef Gordon Ramsay's rule

Vituperative British chef Gordon Ramsay has become Fox's biggest reality star—the best marketing plan ever for a global restaurant empire

Jackie Chan: Big bucks for big brother

The most powerful person in the Chinese film industry? Martial arts legend Jackie Chan, who has combined a government perch with a capitalist's attitude to make himself extremely rich

Billion-dollar bloodlines: America's 200 richest families

List of America's 200 richest families

Guess how to blow $1.5 billion

The Marciano brothers made Guess the sexiest name in jeans and themselves a $2.7 billion fortune at its peak. Today the family and business are in tatters

Vin Diesel: Film's future face

Brawny, brainy and racially ambiguous, Vin Diesel is exactly what global movie audiences want to see these days. And he's cashing in

India can leapfrog to the next wave of technology, says Carnegie Mellon University president

Its infrastructure gap allows the country to move directly into creating something new instead of tearing down existing frameworks, says Carnegie Mellon University president Subra Suresh

Data vs Intuition: Can the twain meet?

Is decision-making moving away from hunch to hard facts? Richard Dobbs, author of No Ordinary Disruption, and Kotak Mahindra Bank chief Uday Kotak discuss

The Sikka way at Infosys

Analysts say the deep-rooted changes which the new CEO is putting in place will bear fruit over the next few years

Greece's descent into economic oblivion

The proposed bailout agreement ignores the referendum and the troubles of the Greek people are only likely to intensify

Rich Karlgaard: Team geniuses-jerks or angels?

There are some who get away with bad behaviour. But is it worth it?

Thoughts on families

The new classics: Most influential economics tomes

Organic reach will continue to decline, says Facebook India chief

Kirthiga Reddy says the strategy is dying a natural death and warns of its limitations for businesses

Deep water bay: The wealthiest neighbourhoods

The world of worldtimers

How on earth can you know the hour in New York, London, Hong Kong and Sydney all at once? Just look at your wrist

Head (and heart) over high heels for supermodel Petra Nemcova

Petra Nemcova, a Czech supermodel who survived the 2004 tsunami, is helping rebuild the lives of disaster-hit children

Comisar knows best about TV history

He can belly up to the original Cheers bar and owns a galaxy of Star Trek costumes. Now James Comisar wants to boldly go build a museum for his $100 million collection of TV memorabilia

Celebrated authors who did not write a second novel

So, Harper Lee did write a second novel: Go Set a Watchman. But here are those who never did

Infosys is not a floundering company that needs radical change: Subroto Bagchi

Author, entrepreneur and co-founder of Mindtree, Subroto Bagchi warns against underestimating the power of the IT company as an institution

Vishal Sikka, the outsider at Infosys, wants change

Vishal Sikka wants to jettison some of Infosys's traditional businesses and focus on innovation and new technologies. In the one year since he took over as CEO and MD, he has been attempting to steer the IT giant towards his vision

The end of India's IT miracle: Vishal Sikka

Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka on the need to amplify abilities and innovate

IKEA products: Made in Uttar Pradesh, sold in Sweden

As it gets ready to open its first outlet in India, home furnishing giant IKEA turns to rural and semi-rural regions to help double sourcing from the country from 315 million to 630 million euros

Wine that travels well and turquoise vases as lanterns

A pick of the best, the latest, the greenest, the quirkiest, the most luxurious... that money can buy

Sanjiv Goenka steps out of his father's shadow, into the limelight

Five years after the RPG group split, Sanjiv Goenka has managed to shake up the companies he inherited and acquired