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Nov 15, 2024 | 
foundingfuel.com | John Kay |D Shivakumar
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
foundingfuel.com | John Kay |D Shivakumar
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
foundingfuel.com | Yuval Harari |D Shivakumar
Shivakumar is Operating Partner at Advent International. Before this, he was President (Corporate Strategy and Business Development) at Aditya Birla Group. Earlier assignments include: Chairman & CEO at Pepsico India and prior to that, Managing Director at Nokia India. Before joining Nokia, he worked with consumer electronics maker Philips and top consumer goods firm Hindustan Unilever. He is an engineer from IIT Chennai and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Sneha Ramesh |D Shivakumar
Pointing out that the power tariff has been revised multiple times over the last decade and this has increased the burden on BWSSB, Shivakumar said that there were plans to float a new company that can help generate power locally. “If they are able to generate solar power and power through other means, their expenditure will also come down,” he suggested. No privatisation of water supplyShivakumar also asserted that he will never approve of the proposal to privatise water supply in the state.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
foundingfuel.com | Herminia Ibarra |D Shivakumar
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
foundingfuel.com | Sally Jenkins |D Shivakumar
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
foundingfuel.com | D Shivakumar
My selection this year offers insights on a larger-than-life business leader, what the Indian economy needs, how to think of innovation, humility and other essential skills, and how boards work.
Walter Isaacson is the former head of CNN. Elon Musk is a larger-than-life figure. What he has achieved in his lifetime is stupendous. Isaacson is the da Vinci of biographies. He shows us who Musk is, what works, what doesn’t work.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
foundingfuel.com | Walter Isaacson |D Shivakumar
Shivakumar is Operating Partner at Advent International. Before this, he was President (Corporate Strategy and Business Development) at Aditya Birla Group. Earlier assignments include: Chairman & CEO at Pepsico India and prior to that, Managing Director at Nokia India. Before joining Nokia, he worked with consumer electronics maker Philips and top consumer goods firm Hindustan Unilever. He is an engineer from IIT Chennai and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.
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Jun 9, 2023 | 
foundingfuel.com | D Shivakumar
The themes I have picked for this summer list are around:
China
AI and future tech impact
Start-ups
Diversity and inclusion
Collaboration with relationships
1. The New China Playbook, by Keyu Jin
We are in a square-off between China and the USA, the world’s two largest economies, and China is taking some flak. Keyu Jin, a professor at the London School of Economics, has written a cracker of a book, The New China Playbook, explaining the 30-year China success.
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May 7, 2023 | 
foundingfuel.com | D Shivakumar
Home Articles Here’s a pattern that I’ve observed throughout my career: incumbents mostly lose; they somehow survive but don’t thrive. An incumbent growing faster than the market over a decade is more an exception, rather than the rule. D Shivakumar [From Pixabay]
I am an ardent fan of the Harvard Business Review and I read every issue.
