'A heavy tanker takes time to move, but when it starts rolling, it's difficult to stop it,' Indian Hotels CEO Puneet Chhatwal tells Shyamal Majumdar.
His compensation in FY17 was more than the combined salaries of the entire boards of TCS, Wipro and Infosys. 'I am a self-made man from a very modest background,' Tech Mahindra's CEO C P Gurnani tells Shyamal Majumdar.
'In the end, investing is about people.' 'If you get the right people, they make things happen,' Mengistu Alemayehu tells Shyamal Majumdar.
Amit Jain tells Shyamal Majumdar about his dream to make Uber the 'safest place in the city'
'Look at Mr Modi. He is a part of this new middle class.' 'India has never before seen this kind of social mobility, certainly not since medieval times.' 'As a result, India's entrenched elite, which is a class of people with a strong sense of entitlement, is being tamed,' Sanjeev Sanyal tells Shyamal Majumdar and Arup Roychoudhury.
Ratan Tata was the first one to realise that Indian companies had become a prisoner to tradition and needed to radically innovate.
How did the Kwid become an Indian success story?
'No private project will take off at such high interest rates'
Naik is passionate about protecting India's manufacturing sector from the onslaught of Chinese imports.
L&T chairman AM Naik is worried about few things.
'It is my duty to give the govt the right price of crude oil.'
With the negative impact of demonetisation waning and the implementation of the GST, 80% of the CEOs surveyed said they were planning to hire more people in 2018
The Congress's share has almost halved, down from 12 in 2014 to six now.
Deepak Parekh, chairman of Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), India's largest mortgage lender, says the exuberance in industry about the new government is justified but big ideas articulated by the prime minister need speedy implementation.