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Recent climate change events, as well as increased focus on sustainability and healthy living fuelled by the pandemic, make Green Buildings a burning topic today. Greening our existing buildings will not only transform our spaces into healthy and resilient habitations but will help increase efficiency in the consumption of resources. All this while helping build back better our battered economy in a post-COVID world. In the first dispatch of our series “The Future of Green Buildings,” we explore the vast benefits of greening lakhs of existing buildings with P. GopalaKrishnan, Managing Director, Southeast Asia and Middle East, Green Business Certification Inc., Vinamra Srivastava, CEO Business Parks, Capitaland India, and Swapnil Joshi Industry 4.0 leader, Infosys. 

The coronavirus pandemic has placed extraordinary demands on leaders in business and beyond. The massive scale of the outbreak and its sheer unpredictability is making it challenging for executives to respond. In this latest dispatch of understanding the future better, we speak with Hal Gregersen, Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management Gregersen has co-authored ten books and published over 50 articles, book chapters, and cases on leading innovation and change. He is also the winner of the Thinkers50 2017 Leadership award. In a freewheeling chat, Gregersen opens up on how leaders should operate in a post-Covid world. Listen to the episode for more.

In a free-wheeling discussion for Livemint's "The Future Of"  series, Sal Khan of Khan Academy opens up on how the pandemic will go down in history as a great turning point of education.  Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization with a mission to provide free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. 

In the first dispatch of Livemint special series "Future of Infrastructure Investments", we deep dive into the world of InvITs- Infrastructure Investment Trusts. In a thought leadership panel discussion with participation from Harsh ShahSachin Gupta and Nilesh Shah, we unravel better structures and routes to invest in infrastructure. Could InvITs be the answer? Tune in to know more.

In the first dispatch of Livemint special series "Future of Infrastructure Investments", we deep dive into the world of InvITs- Infrastructure Investment Trusts. In a thought leadership panel discussion with participation from Harsh ShahSachin Gupta and Nilesh Shah, we unravel better structures and routes to invest in infrastructure. Could InvITs be the answer? Tune in to know more.

As it spreads globally, the coronavirus is creating unique, if not unprecedented, pressures. In the latest dispatch of " The Future of", Marshall Goldsmith - an American leadership coach and the author of several management-related books,  weighs in on how corporate executives can lead. Marshall Goldsmith is one of the world's leading executive coaches and also inducted into theThinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2018.

In this episode of 'The Future of', a panel of experts decode the mantra for building resilience in the payments business. In a free-wheeling discussion, they open up on the culture of innovation, thinking models, sustaining growth, and so on. Listen to the full interview to know more.

In the episode of 'The Future of', a panel of experts decode the mantra for building resilience in the payments business. In a free-wheeling discussion, they open up on the culture of innovation, thinking models, sustaining growth, and so on. Listen to the full interview to know more.

In this episode of The Future Of, we unravel the new realities for corporate mergers & acquisitions.  For one, there is heightened due diligence being seen from the buyers to deal with specific issues arising out of Covid-19. There are also concerns being raised on valuation erosion - and if that will become a permanent feature. On the brighter side, the experts remain hopeful that the huge amount of dry powder (uncalled capital) that private equity investors are sitting on will re-ignite deal-making and unlike the other crisis of the past, access to capital will not be a problem.

In a freewheeling conversation with partners at the firm, we reflect on the three years of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code- if it has been a success, whether it has led to maximization and time-bound recoveries, the reforms needed for cross-border insolvency and so on. We also discuss the new modes of acquisition which can be used for both solvent and insolvent restructurings. Listen to the episode to know more.