IN 1978, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw began her entrepreneurial journey with three employees in a rented shed in Koramangala, suburban Bengaluru, to build what is almost half a century later, India’s leading biotechnology firm Biocon Ltd with annual revenues worth ₹15,621 crore, 16,300 employees and a presence in over 100 countries, including the U.S., Europe and emerging markets.

In 1989, when Suneeta Reddy started working with Apollo Hospitals, the corporate hospital group founded by her father Dr Prathap C. Reddy was a fledgeling enterprise, which had started off as a 150-bed hospital in Chennai six years ago. Today, Apollo is India’s largest private healthcare provider with cumulative bed strength of over 10,000 across 73 hospitals and runs over 6,000 pharmacies, 2,500 clinics and diagnostic centres and over 500 telemedicine centres.

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