NASA has set up Red Planet Capital Inc. a venture capital company. What can we learn from it?

“Its gravity is weak, its atmosphere thin, its surface sealess, its soil poisonous, its sunlight deadly in its levels of ultraviolet, its climate beyond frigid. It would kill you in an instant.” It, if you haven’t guessed, is Mars. The writer is Oliver Morton, and if you haven’t read his book Mapping...

Only ant-like perseverance can transform the backward and beautiful North East, says Sucheta Dalal. Here is the story of one such effort

It requires great courage and tremendous determination to work in the beautiful but violence- ridden backward terrain of India’s north-eastern states. In fact, the only way to work there is through ceaseless dextrous activity, resourcefulness and the ability...

Is business protocol outdated or out of fashion - in this age of the ‘informal’? Not quite

One of India’s largest textile mills was on an expansion spree.  Worldwide demand was increasing rapidly. There was need to set up at least two more plants -- one in India; and two others at overseas locations to be closer to the customer.  But this also meant a lot more investment -- all of which...