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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

Zoho's winning formula

Sridhar Vembu's Zoho is evidence of how entrepreneurship can have a direct social impact

Financial engineering is replacing real engineering

Companies once focussed on researching, manufacturing and developing new products and services. Today, financial engineering has replaced real engineering, thanks to loose monetary policies

Deloitte Consulting's Bill Briggs identifies emerging new technologies

Bill Briggs, CTO at Deloitte Consulting LLP, talks about how companies are adopting technology, and the social impact they need to keep in mind

Steve McQueen's Palm Springs getaway on the block for $4.6 million

The King of Cool's former Palm Springs getaway can be yours for $4.6 million

A former graduate school tutor's billion-dollar fortune

Zhang Bangxin is helping Chinese kids get the finest education possible—with a flourishing tutoring empire

Meet Pavel Durov, the Mark Zuckerberg of Russia

Today's HNIs are Younger, Casual and More Demanding in Service, says Hilton Worldwide's John Vanderslice

Hilton Worldwide is bringing its 'smart luxury' Conrad brand to India with an eye on the 'new HNI'. The hotel's global head of luxury and lifestyle John Vanderslice shares his strategy for the country

How much is Queen Elizabeth II worth?

How much is Queen Elizabeth II worth? We take her measure as she enters her tenth decade

You don't need to have a grudge to depict society's harsh realities: 'Sairat' director Nagraj Manjule

Nagraj Manjule, whose Sairat has become the highest grossing Marathi movie of all time, talks about growing up as a Dalit in rural Maharashtra, and his anger against the establishment which goes beyond issues of caste

Innovating through design: Part-I

As consumers, we often overlook the role played by design in making a product more efficient and appealing. In a two-part series, we explore the possibilities that design can bring to our lives

Thoughts on design

Ajit Isaac's string-of-pearls strategy for Quess

Ajit Isaac, CEO & CMD of Quess Corp, is a master at buying companies and scaling them, thus building two of India's largest HR firms

How Hari Ravichandran built Endurance through the inorganic route

Hari Ravichandran of Endurance International Group took the inorganic route to build a web hosting giant, having brought it out from the ruins of the dot-com crash, not belying its first name

Chadatip Chutrakul aims to energise a district in Bangkok

The CEO of mall owner Siam Piwat aims to energise a forlorn district in Bangkok with a $1.57 billion property

The story of America's first offshore wind farm

How DE Shaw and a politically connected attorney persuaded Rhode Island to build America's first-ever offshore wind farm—and a risk-free money machine

Stephen Schwarzman and Blackstone: Wall Street's unstoppable force

After every crisis of the past three decades, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman has come out a winner. More than $32 billion later, he's just getting started. Inside the mind of a market master

Kumiko Otsuka moves to update her Japanese furniture retailer

Rocking Japan Inc, Kumiko Otsuka unseated her founder father in a bid to update their furniture retailer

Achieving clean energy targets won't be a walk in the park

India has now created an entrepreneurial ecosystem around renewable energy generation. But while government authorities have set lofty targets to explore the potential, will nagging bugbears get the better of them?

Focus is shifting dramatically towards solar power, says ReNew Power's Sumant Sinha

Renew Power's CEO Sumant Sinha says increasing competition and aggressive bidding in the sector have brought down tariffs drastically

The clean and green strategy

Lower tariffs, enabling policies and investor interest have given a fillip to India's renewable energy sector. Here's a snapshot of where it stands

The Bootstrapped Buddhist: How Sridhar Vembu built Zoho

Fuelled by Sridhar Vembu's vision, and without any external funds, Zoho Corporation is helping shape the future of work

India is Truecaller's second home

Home to 130 million of its 200 million users, India is Truecaller's top market. And with new features like Hindi transliteration and availability in local languages, the company aims to add 100 million Indian users annually

Qatar Airways' flight to global prominence

Akbar Al Baker has steered Qatar Airways from a tiny regional entity into global prominence

DBS looks to expand its mobile-only Digibank in India

The Singapore-based bank aims to increase its India footprint through Digibank, its mobile-only banking platform

Panerai's new timepiece is also its most complex

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