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- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
compete in them. It is now starting to do so in markets such as India, which does not allow foreign direct investment in retailing. Wal-Mart has therefore entered via a joint venture with an Indian partner, Bharti, that will operate the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2013
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Meeting Management Challenges in India
data, branding, intellectual property protection, and creating a new-product category. India's Ambitious National Identification Program The Unique Identification Authority of India has been charged with implementing a nationwide program to register and assign a unique... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tarun Khanna & Rohit Deshpande
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
heart care for children. It's also a story made of equal parts Robin Hood humanitarianism, entrepreneurship, and the Indian government's newfound ability to allow entrepreneurs a free hand in trying to solve some of society's most... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
Turmeric is prepared into medicine. Doucefleur In the early 1990s, an Indian plastic surgeon at the University of Mississippi, S. K. Das, was about to amputate the leg of a patient because of a wound that wouldn’t heal. Colleague Hari P.... View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
The Indian economy has been teetering on the brink for the past few months. The most manifest of these problems has been the crash of the Indian rupee, which has shown a decline of approximately 20 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
In May 1995, two scientists at the University of Mississippi were granted an American patent for the use of turmeric to treat flesh wounds. Soon thereafter, an Indian research organization won a lawsuit challenging the novelty of the... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
of employees that can prove most difficult." It Takes An Innovative Village Creativity is doubtless a significant force in the Indian fashion business, the focus of research by HBS professor Mukti Khaire. While the fashion industry... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://hbr.org/2010/03/column-think-outside-the-building/ar/1 Changing Landscapes: The Construction of Meaning and Value in a New Market Category—Modern Indian Art Authors:Mukti... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
job as leader was to figure out when to step in." The "young Sparks" Of the 16 leaders studied, Hill says Delhi-based HCL, under former CEO Vineer Nayar, might be the boldest. Nayar, who pulled the company out of a five-year slump, challenged the common belief that... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Publications September 2013 Management Science Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Harvard Business School Case 514-067 India's Amul: Keeping up with the Times Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947, eight months before India's independence from British rule, and owned by over three million farmers in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 807-028 Jamnalal Bajaj, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Struggle for Indian Independence Describes the role of a leading Indian... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
(BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently abled persons by providing them with the legendary low-cost prosthesis, the Jaipur Foot, and other mobility-assisting devices, free of cost. Known for its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
at one of the most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior views, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
States. In short, their study shows that family CEOs on average work fewer hours relative to nonfamily-affiliated managers in all the countries they studied. Family Vs. Professional To launch the study, the researchers hired 15 students in Mumbai to cold-call... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
closed economy because of the lukewarm reception the Indian government gives multinationals. However, India has been open to ideas from the West, and people have always been able to travel freely in and out of the country, whereas for... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
fact, two other projects are under way and progressing more quickly in other parts of India.) Whatever the final outcome of the Dharavi project, the issues it raises are not going away anytime soon, with 200 million people expected to move from the View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
interest because of recent attention on Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs in the United States and elsewhere. As I write in my essay in the Handbook, and have explored in other work with my HBS colleague Tarun Khanna, the history of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-116 India's Amul: Keeping Up with the Times Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947—eight months before India's independence from British... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne