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Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing Primary Education in the Himalayan Region
By: Akshay Mangla
Himachal Pradesh has surged ahead of other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through a combination of field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior... View Details
Keywords: India; Bureaucracy; Norms; State Capacity; Education; Government and Politics; Education Industry; India
Mangla, Akshay. "Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing Primary Education in the Himalayan Region." Special Issue on India. Asian Survey 55, no. 5 (September–October 2015): 882–908.
- 2004
- Working Paper
The Evolution of Concentrated Ownership in India Broad Patterns and a History of the Indian Software Industry
By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu
Khanna, Tarun, and Krishna G. Palepu. "The Evolution of Concentrated Ownership in India Broad Patterns and a History of the Indian Software Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-001, July 2004. (Also NBER Working Paper No. 10613, July 2004. Published as a chapter in The Rise and Fall of Business Families, edited by Randall Morck. University of Chicago Press, 2005.)
- Editorial
Sanitation and State Capacity
By: Akshay Mangla
Mangla, Akshay. "Sanitation and State Capacity." Indian Express (October 14, 2014).
- Article
Do Group Dynamics Influence Social Capital Gains Among Microfinance Clients? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban India
By: Natalia Rigol, Benjamin Feigenberg, Erica Field, Rohini Pande and Shayak Sarkar
Rigol, Natalia, Benjamin Feigenberg, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, and Shayak Sarkar. "Do Group Dynamics Influence Social Capital Gains Among Microfinance Clients? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban India." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 33, no. 4 (Fall 2014): 932–949.
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
impact, especially as it related to health, education, and the rights of women and children. But in 2016, while I was working in India for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a passion project of mine—what would become the Partition... View Details
- Comment
Demonetization: The Politics of Visible Disruption
By: Akshay Mangla
Mangla, Akshay. "Demonetization: The Politics of Visible Disruption." India in Transition (January 30, 2017).
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
Mumbai Restaurateur Raises Money to Feed Street Children
- September 2022
- Case
Proactive for Her
By: Rembrand Koning and Kairavi Dey
Proactive for Her began amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in August 2020 as a digital platform to provide accessible, evidence-based, primary, preventive non-judgmental healthcare services for Indian women, who were often dissuaded from seeking help as premarital sex and... View Details
Keywords: Women's Health; Healthcare; India; Start-up; Telehealth; Digital Platforms; Health Care and Treatment; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Startups; Health Industry; Asia; South Asia; India
Koning, Rembrand, and Kairavi Dey. "Proactive for Her." Harvard Business School Case 723-351, September 2022.
- 2017
- Article
The Impact of Training Informal Healthcare Providers in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial
By: Jishnu Das, Abhijit Chowdhury, Reshmaan Hussam and Abhijit Banerjee
Health care providers without formal medical qualifications provide more than 70% of all primary care in rural India. Training these informal providers may be one way to improve the quality of care where few alternatives exist. We report on a randomized controlled... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; India; Business Training; RCT; Health Care and Treatment; Training; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; India
Das, Jishnu, Abhijit Chowdhury, Reshmaan Hussam, and Abhijit Banerjee. "The Impact of Training Informal Healthcare Providers in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Science 354, no. 6308 (October 7, 2016): 80.
- December 2014
- Case
HN Agri Serve: Growing Prosperity
By: Jose B. Alvarez, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
In 2014, Khuram Mir, CEO of HN Agri Serve, an innovative apple orchard company in the Kashmir region of Northern India, wonders about the best growth strategy for his company. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; India; Agribusiness; Entrepreneurship; Food and Beverage Industry; India
Alvarez, Jose B., Anjali Raina, and Rachna Chawla. "HN Agri Serve: Growing Prosperity." Harvard Business School Case 515-006, December 2014.
- May 1998
- Teaching Note
Internationalizing the Cola Wars (A): The Battle for China and Asian Markets & (B): The Battle for India TN
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for (9-795-186) and (9-795-187). View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Mobilizing Culture for Public Action: Community Participation and Child Rights in Rural Uttar Pradesh
By: Akshay Mangla
Community-based initiatives that work to empower the poor and promote their participation have gained strong support among scholars and practitioners of development. Yet the questionable assumptions about culture and development that inform these initiatives render it... View Details
Mangla, Akshay. "Mobilizing Culture for Public Action: Community Participation and Child Rights in Rural Uttar Pradesh." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-100, April 2014.
- 01 Oct 2014
- News
What the Mission to Mars Shows about India's Innovators
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
Courtesy White Owl Brewery Before coming to business school, Javed Murad (MBA 2008) was not much of a beer drinker. The brews on offer in his native India were primarily mass-produced lagers, and he just didn’t like the taste. While at... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
As the children of civil servants living in northern India, siblings Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (HBS 2022) enjoyed educational advantages that millions of their lower-income peers did not—advantages such as high-quality preschools that focused on core... View Details
- 2015
- Working Paper
Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing
By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Alexander Segura
India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net employment growth is concentrated in informal tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to the development of one-person... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; India; Informality; Small And Medium-sized Enterprises; Development Economics; Manufacturing Industry; India
Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Alexander Segura. "Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 7206, March 2015.