Entrepreneur

Building a management career in healthcare

In this session, Mr. K. Chandrasekhar, Founder & CEO, Forus Health talks about the evolution of healthcare and provides career tips to the B-Schoolers.

The power of accounting for MBAs | Learn from the stalwart

In this session, Arindam Ghosh, South Asia Head – India, Institute of Management Accountants, talks about accounting, finance, and provides career tips to the B-Schoolers. >

MBA’s Guide to Project Management | Learn from the stalwart

In this session, Amit Goyal, Managing Director, Project Management Institute - South Asia, talks about project management and provides tips to the B-Schoolers.

Smart energy management lessons from the expert

In this session, Raman Chopra, CEO, Caparo Power, talks about power hungry data centers, trends in the power sector and provides career tips to the B-Schoolers.

Building successful businesses | Learn from the global coach

In this session, Brad Sugars, Founder, ActionCOACH, provides guidance on building successful businesses, and gives tips to the students.

Database for training centres in works: Skills Secy Debashree Mukherjee

Skills Secretary Debashree Mukherjee says the government is also exploring cluster-based apprenticeship models to boost MSME participation

Why India’s women entrepreneurs face hurdles in accessing advanced business loans

Although India is making progress in bringing women entrepreneurs into the formal credit system, most women still lack access to advanced financing like working capital and secured loans.

Scope in data analytics for MBAs | From Tracxn’s Co-Founder

In this session, Neha Singh, Co-Founder, Tracxn, shares her experience of deriving actionable insights from data and explains the scope in the data analytics sector

How this celebrity coach is reshaping wellness and business

From training Bollywood celebs and IPL players to building SOHFIT and now The Func Lab, Sohrab Khushrushahi shares how he turned passion into purpose-driven businesses.

Venice hosts Jeff Bezos' grand wedding with stars, yachts and protests

San Giorgio, where emperors once met with popes, would host the patron of Amazon.com

Game Palacio, Snow World & More: Hospitality Secrets from a Pro

From Game Palacio to Formula Karting — Prasuk Jain shares how he built India’s new-age entertainment empire.

India needs entrepreneurship 2.0 with risk-taking, visionary founders

India, in fact, was a major exporter to West Asia, where two large empires - the Safavid and the Ottoman - provided a lucrative marketing area

Breaking into consumer electronics: What you need to know

In this discussion, Videotex International’s director shares insights on industry challenges, the power of vision, and leveraging automation to overcome obstacles.

How Social Entrepreneurship can Drive Businesses Towards Success

Manager’s Mantra presents an insightful conversation with Advait Kumar, Founder of Boon. Advait shares valuable lessons for future managers and entrepreneurs.

Vellayan Subbiah of TII named EY World Entrepreneur of the year 2024

India has now become the only country among EY regions to win the global entrepreneurship award four times

Management education is a key area for a developing country: XIME chairman

Prof J Philip, founder and chairman of Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship (XIME), talks about the evolution of management education in India and the trends in the sector

India-focused JVs expected from conference of entrepreneurs in Singapore

A good number of joint ventures and partnerships are going to happen between Indians and delegates from 65 countries that were at the Entrepreneurs Organization's (EO) Singapore conference held this week. "This conference has helped members from India share their thoughts and ideas and take back potential partnerships for developing programmes and services in India," said Pankaj Yadava, Chief Product Officer of the EO, a not-for-profit organisation out of the US with a global network of 19,000 members. The market knowledge sharing conference was held on 22-24 April 2024 in Singapore and an award for student entrepreneurs was held on Thursday, which was a follow-up to the one held in Bhopal in early April, according to Yadava. There were a lot of exchanges of ideas and practices as well as market ground realities at the conference attended by 1,800 delegates from 65 countries, including 143 EO members from India. There are entrepreneurs keen on working in India but face the challeng

Indian entrepreneurs are among the best in world, says Naspers CEO

Complimenting the Indian entrepreneurs as among the best in the world, a top CEO of a South African global company has said India and South Africa are at the forefront of digital transformation and jointly harnessing the power of technology. Phuti Mahanyele, CEO of Naspers South Africa, a global technology investment group, which has huge investments in India as well, was speaking at an event on Friday evening. The event organised to present awards to ten women in different fields on International Women's Day was jointly hosted by the Consulate General of India, the India Business Forum, and the Johannesburg Indian Women's Association, an organisation of spouses of Indian diplomats and expats working in South Africa, which engages in charitable projects. We believe that Indian entrepreneurs are among the best in the world, with exceptional ability to build products at scale and at value, Mahanyele said, adding that she had observed during a visit to Delhi in November last year how

Budget expectations: Income tax benefits, support to women entrepreneurs

An increase in income tax exemption limits, support to women entrepreneurs, a long-term taxation policy and steps to boost consumption and savings are among the expectations of experts from the interim budget which will be presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 ahead of Lok Sabha elections. They also demand for parity in taxation among companies, partnerships and limited liability partnerships. "This is going to be an interim budget but at least there may be some indications of full-budget benefits. There may be some concession to be offered to individual taxpayers under section 87A under which the overall tax exemption limit may be increased to Rs 8 lakh from now Rs 7 lakh, inclusive of rebates," All India Federation of Tax Practitioners national president Narayan Jain said. Bharat Chamber of Commerce president N G Khaitan said there is a need for a long-term taxation policy and parity in taxation among companies, partnerships and limited liability ...