From two reps to ₹60,000 crore empire

From crisis doubts to billion-dollar comeback

Innovation bets that truly change the game

Trillion-dollar pharma: India’s next leap

From investor blows to pipeline reset

AI to power the next-gen drug pipeline

Global churn, China surge—India’s moment?

Conclusion

Credits

In a candid, unscripted exchange, India’s pharma titans peeled back the mythology of overnight success to reveal a harder truth: conviction compounded over decades. What began as two products and a bet on neglected therapy areas evolved into a multibillion-dollar enterprise riding India’s epidemiological shift. Innovation, they argued, is a long game—scarred by failed trials, investor backlash, and capital droughts—yet redeemed by landmark deals and scientific persistence. In this episode, host Vikas Dandekar talks to Dilip Shanghvi, Chairman of Sun Pharma and Glenn Saldanha, Managing Director at Glenmark Pharma about regulatory reforms, AI acceleration, and a renewed policy push, the message was clear: India stands at the cusp of a pharmaceutical inflection point—if it dares to back its pipeline as boldly as its past.

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Corner Office Conversation is The Economic Times&rsquo; flagship interview podcast featuring unfiltered, one-on-one conversations with some of India and the world&rsquo;s most powerful business leaders.
Hosted by ET&rsquo;s top journalists and editors, this fortnightly show goes beyond headlines and press releases to explore how CEOs and founders think, decide, and lead in an era of disruption.
From Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber), and Roland Busch (Siemens) to Adar Poonawalla (Serum Institute), Suresh Narayanan (Nestl&eacute; India), and Ravi Kumar S (Cognizant), these conversations uncover personal leadership playbooks, global strategy pivots, lessons from failures, and bold visions for the future &mdash; across industries like tech, healthcare, manufacturing, finance, and consumer goods.
New episodes drop every alternate Monday.