A company can hire 500 people in a few months. It can sign a lease, open a new office and bring a new business unit online with remarkable speed. But there is one part of that expansion that still tends to behave as if every project is a one-off: furniture. That is becoming increasingly difficult …...

For a long time, insurance buying in India followed a predictable ritual. Every year around January or February, families would scramble to buy a policy simply to save on taxes before the March deadline. More often than not, the plan was bought from a friendly neighborhood uncle who happened to be an agent, and the …...