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    Silver linings: How companies are identifying islands of opportunities in the ocean of Covid chaos

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    In sectors with no natural advantages, there is a rush to identify areas that could be recalibrated.

    Pankaj Munjal, managing director of Hero Cycles, is charting a counter-intuitive path. He has started operating all eight of his factories in Ludhiana in full steam, even though only 30-40% of his dealers have reopened for business. He is, in fact, keen to pedal faster, having despatched an executive to Bihar to persuade his factory workers to return at the soonest.Why is Munjal in a hurry to produce when the economy is hurting and a V-shaped
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