India’s Midsummer Reckoning with Climate -- On 27 April 2026, something happened that should have rattled every boardroom in Mumbai and every desk in North Block. Every single one of the planet’s top 50 hottest cities was in one country: India. Average peak temperatures across those 50 cities hit 112.5°F. Banda, in Uttar Pradesh, touched 115.16°F — the hottest spot on Earth that day. The air-quality platform that compiled the data put it plainly: “no modern precedent.” This i

Lessons from Seven Decades -- Introduction "Nobody knows what strategy is." – The Economist Few concepts in business are as widely discussed yet as poorly understood as strategy. In countless boardrooms, classrooms, and executive off-sites, the word is used to mean everything from setting goals and writing mission statements to launching marketing campaigns and cutting costs. No wonder when you ask a group of executives “What is strategy?” , the answers range wildly. For som

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