Most Powerful Women

Having gone through her own trials by fire, each one of India’s women leaders from the world of business and economy makes the cut for Fortune India’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business.

A set of women entrepreneurs is neither signing multi-billion dollar deals nor raising top dollars but making an exceptional impact on the ground.

How women leaders have conquered steel, alcohol and real estate sectors.

Women in leadership roles are far and few. Is India Inc. doing enough to groom them to be leaders?

Regulations have ensured board seats for women, but that’s a battle just half won.

Societal taboos and workplace biases play spoilsport in Tier-II and III city workforce, despite efforts to increase women’s participation.

One seldom gets to see a car, a mobile phone or even travel gear designed specifically for women. Are marketers ignoring an important target audience?

For the International Women’s Day, we celebrate the 50 women who featured in our Most Powerful Women (MPW) in Business list for the year 2020. Here’s the editor’s letter from that issue.

How Accenture in India chairman and senior managing director Menon and her team are not only helping other companies but also themselves to migrate to a digital world. 

Suri has taken her company from six to 14 hotels in India and London. And she’s showing the hospitality industry how to be more inclusive with The Lalit’s LGBTQ policies.

Nadia Chauhan, the 33-year-old joint managing director and chief marketing officer of FMCG major Parlé Agro, on the Appy Fizz success story, the plan to double turnover by 2022, and more.

With smart TVs in larger screen sizes, Saraf’s Vu Technologies is competing with Sony, Samsung, and LG to prove that an Indian brand is no less.

Successful women leaders have to be a catalyst for empowering other women at the workplace. Change is happening, but slowly. Women leaders believe the millennial woman can speed it up.

If there is one thing common to all Most Powerful Women in business listers, it is this: They took the road less travelled.

This year, at the MPW summit in Mumbai, some of India Inc’s most influential women leaders debated and discussed women’s risk-taking abilities, and how they are different from those of men.

Why women take fewer risks at the workplace than men: here’s what members of the jury at the Fortune India MPW Summit debate had to say.

Reddy has built a formidable ready-to-wear garments business in four years with top brands such as Wrogn and Imara. Her next goal is tough: to be profitable.

A techie at heart, Rai is steering Intel India on its journey from a PC-centric to a data-centric company to keep up with the new data-driven digital world.

Some of the leading lights of corporate India congregate at the annual MPW summit in Mumbai to talk about issues that matter to women and the society at large.

Editor’s letter from September 15 - December 14, 2019 issue of the magazine