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The ability to make small talk is a valuable skill that many executives seem oblivious to. It helps break barriers between people, aids bonding and can yield insights that can’t be obtained any other way. In other words, it can pay off in spades.

Driven by rising earnings, the profit-to-GDP ratio for the BSE 500 universe reached 4.3% in FY26. However, looming global tensions and softening consumption indicators threaten to halt further expansion of this corporate profit share.

War-driven inflation, slowing demand and lofty market valuations are raising doubts over whether corporate earnings can deliver the growth investors expect in FY27.

How Ardeshir Godrej's inventions and Pirojsha Godrej's institution-building skills transformed a small Bombay workshop into one of India's most enduring business houses.

More companies turned loss-making in Q4FY26 despite stronger revenue growth, as rising raw material costs exposed smaller businesses with limited pricing power. Analysts warn the pressure could intensify in FY27 as higher crude prices flow through new inventories and into corporate margins.

From battling Dhirubhai Ambani and defending Cyrus Mistry to watching parts of the Wadia empire fade, Nusli Wadia remains corporate India’s last defiant aristocrat.

More companies returned to double-digit growth in Q4FY26, but earnings momentum remained concentrated in premium consumption, capital-market-linked businesses and infrastructure sectors, leaving the recovery vulnerable to rising inflation.

Indian companies have been swept up by global hype around artificial intelligence (AI). But all directors and officers need to ask their insurers about what AI-related risks their D&O insurance policies refuse to cover—and why. Some of that buzz needs legal moderation.

Indian businesses face five principal challenges, as revealed by an analysis of corporate statements over the past quarter or so. All of them are captured by a single question: how to grow sustainably in a world of constant flux.