By Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, CMD, Biocon The Lok Sabha elections in 2019 will be historic! An entire generation that was born at the turn of the 21st century will have turned 18 and thus become eligible to vote! 133 million young adults will get to exercise their franchise and thus give shape to their idea of … Continue reading It’s Time for India’s Youth to Stand Up and be Counted
IHC Public Lecture: Strategic Importance Of Data Sciences In Research And Innovation
DATA IS KING In 2012, IDC projected that the digital universe will reach 40 zettabytes by 2020. This was based on the assumption that 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human being on the planet in 2020. IDC realised that its projection was on the conservative side! Its current … Continue reading IHC Public Lecture: Strategic Importance Of Data Sciences In Research And Innovation
An Inclusive Budget
By Kiran Mazumdar Shaw The Finance Minister has presented a comprehensive and wide-ranging Budget for FY19, which addresses most of the areas that need focus to ensure sustainable, long-term and equitable growth of the Indian economy. The Union Budget needed to be prudent and forward-looking rather than populist and that is exactly what Finance Minister … Continue reading An Inclusive Budget
2017 – A Landmark Year for Indian Science
By Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CMD, Biocon 2017 has been an exciting year for science in India. From unheralded incremental innovations to Big Bang headline-grabbing global feats, Indian scientists have done some very important work to push the frontiers of science during the year. India researchers made significant contributions to R&D across a broad spectrum of … Continue reading 2017 – A Landmark Year for Indian Science
A Journey of Endurance
By Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CMD, Biocon The approval of our biosimilar Trastuzumab by the U.S. FDA is a vindication of our two-decade-long biologics-led pharmaceutical journey. We had invested ‘ahead of the curve’ in the promising future of targeted biologics at the turn of the millennium. At that time, we had anticipated some of the risks, … Continue reading A Journey of Endurance
“My ability to face and learn from failure and move on has helped me a great deal in being successful”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon, tells P.B. Jayakumar about the key lessons she has learnt in business life.
Budget Expands Ambit of Clean India
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has presented a Budget that boasts of several firsts. It is the first time that the railway and general budgets have been merged and planned and non-planned expenditure classification done away with. I believe the Finance Minister has laid out a very safe budget this year operating with fiscal prudence and … Continue reading Budget Expands Ambit of Clean India
Transforming India into a digital society that is less cash dependent
As the debate on the pains and gains of India’s move to demonetize high-value currency notes continues to rage, I firmly believe that the digital payments economy is an idea whose time has come. History shows us how money as a ‘medium of exchange’ has evolved over several millennia from cowry shells to gold and … Continue reading Transforming India into a digital society that is less cash dependent
What Price Philanthropy?
Over the past month, I have been a silent spectator, witnessing a miserable drama unfold in Bangalore. This is regarding a remarkable project to safeguard an important art collection through the upkeep and modernisation of an ailing state gallery the Venkatappa Art Gallery (VAG), by turning it into a new museum for the city. These plans … Continue reading What Price Philanthropy?
Breaking the Stereotype
Today’s Indian woman is making a mark across diverse fields – from business and politics to sports and social work – breaking stereotypes and smashing glass ceilings along the way. It is interesting to note that 6 of the Top 10 Banks in India are headed by women and 12% of India’s 5,100 pilots are … Continue reading Breaking the Stereotype