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How LeverageEdu's Akshay Chaturvedi weathered the pandemic storm with 'soul searching' on Saturdays
The founder began looking for internal validation after being betrayed by a VC. His journey has been shaped by countless lessons in learning and unlearning. Can he now script a new chapter by taking the study-abroad platform to IPO?
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Durreen Shahnaz on building a stock exchange for social enterprises
In her book, 'The Defiant Optimist', Durreen Shahnaz, the first Bangladeshi woman to work on Wall Street, presents a glimpse of her life and her effort to make financial markets more equitable and inclusive. She believes that financial systems that enrich the few can be transformed for the good of the many. As India is working on its social stock exchange, she talks about what it takes to build an ecosystem to measure and prioritise social impact, whether India is ready to launch an SSE, and why the rules for women to succeed are different—and often harder—than men
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How, after years of cynicism, foreign investors are favouring India over China
The tide of foreign investments has turned as investors pull out of China stocks and turn to India and global emerging market ETFs, excluding China, for better long-term returns, finally
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Wipro's turnaround is work in progress facing macro spoilsport
With talent acquisition core to its work, India's fourth biggest IT company has seen the sharpest hiring course correction amongst peers
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Sustainability requires collaboration, not competition: Conny Braams of Unilever
Conny Braams, chief digital & commercial officer of Unilever, said marketers have a huge role to play in terms of sustainability
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How Spark Studio is weathering the edtech meltdown
Moving away from her arts-heavy curriculum, Anushree Goenka found the spark in the market for public speaking and spoken English to build a startup that is growing slow but steady
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Pullela Gopichand: No backup plan for many players, need to secure them through sponsorships and jobs
Pullela Gopichand, chief national coach of the Indian National Badminton Team emphasizes that more efforts are needed to support emerging athletes through job opportunities and sponsorships
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Context & alphabets: Creative Galileo & the samosa act
Prerna Jhunjhunwala's venture for early learning for children is focusing on schools. The founder, though, is equally animated about a D2C play. But can B2C be as easy as ABC?
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Cadbury dancing girl to My SRK ad: What's so khaas about Mondelez's 75 years in India?
A one-of-a-kind meeting of executives who have managed Mondelez and its iconic brands like Cadbury for many years. Take a trip down memory lane with Ogilvy's Piyush Pandey and the company's key executives
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When Nithin Kamath doubled up as Zerodha's social media manager
Zerodha's Nithin Kamath talks about creating his personal brand online, the power of storytelling and building Zerodha from scratch
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No battle between logic and magic: Forging CMO-CFO power alliances
According to Shubhranshu Singh , vice president, marketing - domestic & IB, CVBU , Tata Motors, if logical creativity and creative logic can be hybridised, then one come to a meeting point