Most Powerful Women in Business
- Rekha M. Menon—who uses empathy and business acumen in equal measure to drive change, both within and outside her organisation—enters the Hall of Fame in 2021
- Set up 90 more labs and 1,800 collection centres in the next three years.
- Sustainability is the new Digital. Technology can help us address climate change
- Making India the fastest-growing market for Salesforce
- Launch learning programmes in multiple regional languages
- Increasing Nykaa stores to 300, taking in-house brands to the Middle East, Europe
- We strongly believe our company will be amongst front runners in e-mobility
- Building India’s largest disrup- tive and platform-agnostic, truly integrated media company
- Getting more Indian unicorns, decacorns to tap public markets
- Get to high growth rates in the domestic market and create a sound base for the African market
- Building Edelweiss into a Top 10 AMC in a steady and sustainable way
- The company’s vision for the next phase of development is to ‘Touch a Billion Lives’
- The next business objective is to stay at rank 10th, as we were at rank 12th last year
- Despite venture capital investments continuing to shatter records and more unicorns popping up than ever before, the number of women-led start-ups, investments they raise, and even the count of women investors, remain low
- Soumya Swaminathan has had an illustrious career spanning 30 years in clinical care and research, serving in various official capacities in India and abroad
- At a start-up event in January, Chopra said she was looking to invest in start-ups that are a mix of beauty and tech, as well as education
- In her three-year stint as the first woman Chief Economist of the IMF, Gopinath has left an indelible mark on the coveted institution and on the world economy
- The Head of Global TV at Netflix manages three kids at home, and also takes care of the entertainment needs of some 214 million subscribers worldwide
- With demand for video communication shooting through the roof owing to Covid-19, Zoom registered a 470 per cent increase in its customer base. How did she manage?
- Her advice for next-gen women leaders: focus time and energy on impact, and create your own opportunities
- We need to continue to innovate because there are newer emerging risks
- FANUC India has the potential to make a difference when it comes to reimagining the future of robotics
- To successfully execute the succession of the company’s management to the next generation within 8-10 years
- To ride the digital transformation wave and correct lagging units
- To make Cipla completely future-forward, go beyond generics and be a part of the illness-to-wellness transformation
- Impactful innovations and activations; focus remains on consistent, profitable, responsible growth
- Reliance Foundation has impacted the lives of 45 million people in areas of health, education, rural transformation, etc.
- We want to keep growing across all five verticals —Mpower movement, clinical care, outreach, academia, Mpower helpline
- Harness the power of technology to solve societal challenges and enrich live
- Demerger of Piramal Pharma from Piramal Enterprises, which will see emergence of two very large businesses
- To make Netflix India the service of choice for as many Indians as possible
- Launch more critical care services at home to help people avoid hospital visits
- I would like to see a skilled India where we are the high-tech corridor for areas like Quantum and AI
- Bring benefits of digitisation to people, communities that need them most
- Create content that resonates with India’s diverse audience base and leaves viewers asking for more
- Launch of Tata super app TataNeu and digitalising the group’s legacy companies
- Despite venture capital investments continuing to shatter records and more unicorns popping up than ever before, the number of women-led start-ups, investments they raise, and even the count of women investors, remain low
- The burnt out working mothers of the white-collar workforce want real flexibility with a clear switch-off button and childcare support. Something for firms to get right as they draft hybrid work policies
- By taking her company public, Nykaa’s Falguni Nayar has become the country’s wealthiest self-made woman entrepreneur. What next?
- This avid marathon runner knows a thing or two about perseverance. It is a trait she will bank on for the long haul
- Vinati Saraf Mutreja took charge of her father's company, and led its performance to unimagined heights
- The daughter of a physics professor and a music teacher now leads a prominent digital payments company, and is leading its IPO effort
- The pandemic has spurred Suparna Mitra to take Titan Company's watches and wearables business to a different level
- Suchitra Ella drove Bharat Biotech to develop India's first indigenous vaccine to fight Covid-19, and she's not finished yet
- The first woman chairman of SAIL is focussed on improving its finances and increasing its market share of high-value products
- Sindhu Gangadharan is committed to making a difference, in her company and beyond
- Dr. Priya Abraham led the teams that expertly managed India's handling of the Covid-19 virus
- Namita Thapar has taken her father's formulations and API business from Rs 500 crore in 2007 to Rs 6,000 crore today
- The Yale graduate who delivered affordable clean energy across the world is now leading India's green transportation drive
- Mahima Datla is leading Biological E into the Covid-19 vaccine market, and way beyond
- Isha Ambani is making a difference to India's biggest business conglomerate. That is no mean task, and speaks of her potential
- As the head of the largest alco-bev company in India, Hina Nagarajan aims to change the perceptions on women and alcohol in the country
- Harsha Bangari of Exim Bank is not just lending to exporters, but also partnering them in their globalisation efforts
- Dipali Goenka joined her husband's textile business and turned every challenge into a learning opportunity
- Badminton's loss has been filmdom and start-ups' gain as Deepika Padukone continues to keep her foot on the accelerator
- From challenging conventional thinking by pursuing economics as a career, Ashima Goyal now helps drive the country's economic parameters
K.V. Kamath’s Infra Plans with NaBFID
K.V. Kamath is back where he began, in a development financial institution—he had started his career at ICICI LtdSajjan Jindal Leads JSW on Renewables Path
Industrialist Sajjan Jindal has made his big move on the renewable energy front, by housing JSW Energy’s renewable businesses in a new entity called JSW Energy NeoPawan Munjal’s Road to EV Manufacturing
It took some time, but Pawan Munjal has finally announced a foray into electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing. His biggest competition?Zerodha Founder & CEO Nithin Kamat and his Social Jibes
Zerodha Founder and CEO Nithin Kamath regularly takes a dig at some practices of his rival broking firmsWhat Twitter’s Parag Agrawal has in common with Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai
Parag Agrawal has some things in common with peers Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai. All three are engineers who rose through the ranks
'The Most Important Thing in Business Is Relationships'
P. Ravindra Pai, Managing Director, Century Real Estate Holdings
What India’s CBDC Plans Need
A detailed blueprint is needed to see what the central bank digital currency entailsEqualisation Levy’s Tax Bonanza as it is Phased Out
India set to collect Rs 3,000 crore under equalisation levy even as it moves to phase it outThe Fallout of Reliance Capital Being Referred to the NCLT
RBI referring Reliance Capital to insolvency tribunal could have a ripple effectThe Omicron Threat to India’s FY22 Growth Outlook
Economists have pegged India's full-year growth rate at 9-10 per cent, with the pace likely to weaken in the second halfHow the Covid-19 Variant Can Erode Investor Wealth
Any major fall over the Omicron scare could lead to accentuated selling activity, say experts
Power Dressing in the New Normal
Clothes maketh a woman? Not really, but here's how you can wear confidence on your sleeves
The Most Powerful Women in Business: Breaking Barriers
In this annual Most Powerful Women (MPW) in Business special issue of Business Today, we celebrate women leaders whose achievements have made it possible for millions of others to dream big
