Publications

Educators

28 Feb 2014
News

Mumbai Restaurateur Raises Money to Feed Street Children

Keywords: philanthropy; poverty; India; street children; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

Editorial

Sanitation and State Capacity

By: Akshay Mangla

Keywords: India; State Capacity; Sanitation; Infrastructure; Government and Politics; India

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

Article

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

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

Keywords: museums; India; nonprofits; career paths; leadership; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

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

Educators

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

Comment

Demonetization: The Politics of Visible Disruption

By: Akshay Mangla

Keywords: Political Economy; Corruption; Democracy; India

07 Apr 2015
News

India's Private Equity Industry Shakes Off Its Doldrums

Keywords: private equity; India; economic trends; developing economies; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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

Educators

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

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03 Oct 2019
News

Aiming for the Playoffs—and a Wider Audience

Keywords: basketball; entrepreneurship; India; sports management; leadership; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; China; Asia

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; beer; India; leadership; COVID-19; manufacturing; marketing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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

Keywords: India; Culture; Child Rights; Caste Relations; Child Education; Child Health; India

16 Feb 2021
Working Paper Summaries

Bollywood, Skin Color, and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence

Keywords: by Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones, and Morgan Spencer; Media & Broadcasting

March 2016
Article

Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

By: Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami and William R. Kerr

We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation... View Details

Keywords: Highways; Roads; India; Development; Manufacturing; Density; Rent; Infrastructure; Manufacturing Industry; India

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