THE FACE-OFF
Gourav Vallabh, part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, discusses India’s high-growth trajectory, the debate over job creation and the need to sustain and broaden growth to deliver greater prosperity
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INTERVIEWHarshavardhan Chitale, chief executive, Hero MotoCorp, talks to Yuthika Bhargava and Fazal Rahim about the two-wheeler maker's growth strategy—multi-brand electric vehicle (EV) bets via Vida and Ather, the push into premium motorcycles and scooters
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A new study examines how out-of-pocket healthcare spending can become a financial shock for households, with the burden varying significantly across economies
CORPORATE STRATEGIST
L&T Finance has set its sights on a ₹3 lakh crore loan book by 2031. It is betting on a diversified portfolio and rapid adoption of AI to catch up with larger peers; but will that be enough?
HDFC Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank are not short of growth opportunities. What their new CEOs need to prove is that they can capture them without paying too high a price in margins, funding costs or returns
The Big Discussion
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Foreign selling, elevated US bond yields, high crude prices and a weak rupee have battered large-caps, even as domestic liquidity keeps mid- and small-caps relatively resilient
Simple Energy expects to enter FY28 as a profitable company, with Simple Wave helping improve volumes and margins as the company shifts its focus from scaling to self-sustainability
The minister said that uncertainty is now a standing condition of the global economy and policy must be designed around it
India’s clean air challenge is also an economic opportunity, with CSR capital offering a potential route to fund targeted and measurable solutions
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Tata and Hero face different challenges but raise a shared question: as companies grow, where should power sit and who should be accountable?
Harshavardhan Chitale spearheads two-wheeler king Hero MotoCorp’s quest to conquer new territories and defend its market leadership
Harshavardhan Chitale, chief executive, Hero MotoCorp, talks to Yuthika Bhargava and Fazal Rahim about the two-wheeler maker's growth strategy—multi-brand electric vehicle (EV) bets via Vida and Ather, the push into premium motorcycles and scooters
Deloitte India's Rajat Mahajan and Atul Jairaj say that for legacy automakers, success will depend on converting core capabilities into new sources of competitive advantage
A boardroom rift at Tata Sons exposes tensions around leadership, control and a potential listing, putting its unusual ownership and governance model under scrutiny
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Sebi in September proposed changes to the CAS framework and the methodology for determining settlement prices of index and stock derivatives on expiry days
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Pronab Sen, in an interview with Outlook Business, says the bigger concern with the new GDP series is not just the sharp downward revision to past growth estimates but the lack of transparency over the data and methodology behind it
Inflation risks are rising because of a confluence of food, fuel and imported price pressures, and testing monetary policy’s ability to engineer a soft landing
