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What a Lasting Tata Settlement Must Resolve

What a Lasting Tata Settlement Must Resolve

Ahead of Tata Sons’ pending AGM, the fight over leadership and listing is widening. A lasting settlement must resolve who decides, how capital is used and whose interests count.

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Satish Pradhan

Satish Pradhan

Independent Consultant

The Battle for the Tata Inheritance

The Battle for the Tata Inheritance

The struggle inside Tata Trusts is exposing a question that goes far beyond personalities: can an unusual compact between philanthropy, ownership and corporate power survive the loss of the steward who held it together?

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

The Real Question Behind a Tata Sons Listing

The Real Question Behind a Tata Sons Listing

The debate is not simply about an IPO. It is about whether patient capital, stewardship and social purpose depend upon privacy, or can be protected through a different institutional architecture.

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Can you buy the future without learning from it?

Can you buy the future without learning from it?

When incumbents buy, partner or outsource the capabilities demanded by each new disruption, they may solve today’s problem. The harder question is whether the parent company itself is still learning.

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Why India’s Universities Struggle to Build Great Business Schools

Why India’s Universities Struggle to Build Great Business Schools

A look at why standalone institutions continue to dominate postgraduate management in India, and what schools of management inside multidisciplinary universities must do if they hope to compete

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S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri

S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri

Strategic Growth & Innovation Expert | Visiting Professor

A Merger Is Not an Idea
·Corporate Strategy

A Merger Is Not an Idea

Why the Omnicom - Interpublic deal reveals a deeper failure of imagination in advertising

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Shekar Swamy

Shekar Swamy

MD & Group CEO | R K SWAMY Ltd

Inside Chennai’s Enduring Enterprises
·Family Business & Inter-generational transitions

Inside Chennai’s Enduring Enterprises

A field report on family ownership, continuity, and the craft of building for the long term

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Upamanyu Bhattacharya

Upamanyu Bhattacharya

Professor of Retail | S P Jain Institute of Management & Research

The Best Stories of 2025
·Corporate Strategy

The Best Stories of 2025

Ten of our best work through the year—on business, leadership, and geopolitical trends

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