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  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53993 Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines By: Karlan, Dean, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Benjamin N. Roth Abstract—A debt trap... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2001 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Wipro Technologies (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Suma Raju
The new general manager of Wipro's software services division has been brought on board from General Electric to develop the division into a leading provider of software services to the world's largest corporations. A native of India who received management training in... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Transformation; Change Management; Human Resources; Software; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

2016 Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random House Win-Win Corporations: The Indian Way of Shaping Successful Strategies By: Shah, Shashank Abstract—Why did Ratan Tata decide to pay for all the victims of 26/11 whether injured in the Taj or anywhere else? Why did HDFC’s Aditya... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Leadership To Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

    Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur—who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.

    In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview... View Details
    • July 2022 (Revised September 2022)
    • Case

    Birla Carbon Egypt: Building Soft Power in a Foreign Country

    By: Jeremy Friedman and Malini Sen
    Birla Carbon, a flagship business of the nearly $60-billion global conglomerate and India-headquartered Aditya Birla Group (ABG), is one of the world's top manufacturers and suppliers of high-quality carbon black. The largest among its 16 manufacturing plants is Birla... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Family Business; Disruption; Transformation; Diversity; Trade; Energy; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Government and Politics; Private Ownership; Civil Society or Community; Risk and Uncertainty; Value Creation; Industrial Products Industry; Rubber Industry; Egypt; Africa; India; Asia; Atlanta; United States
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    • Spring 2024
    • Other Article

    Introduction: International Innovation & American Challenges

    By: William C. Kirby
    While the United States remains a leader in higher education, the largest systems of higher education today are in India and China, and new colleges and universities spread across the world have become the leading sites of ambitious experimentation.
    What are... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Trends; Global Range; Education Industry
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    • 15 Sep 2010
    • News

    Aggarwal brothers delve deep into the 'soul of India' to tap talent

    • 07 Mar 2011
    • News

    Q&A: Tarun Khanna, Professor

    • November 2015 (Revised May 2016)
    • Case

    Aspiring Minds

    By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Christine Snively
    By 2015, India-based employment assessment and certification provider Aspiring Minds had helped facilitate over 300,000 job matches through its assessment tools. Aspiring Minds' flagship product, the Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT), used machine learning... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Strategy; Higher Education; Technological Innovation; Employment; Technology Industry; India; China
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    • 09 Feb 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 9

      Working PapersThe Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-Periphery Structures Dominate? Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Abstract Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number of subsystems and associated components, some... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • March 2022
    • Article

    Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field

    By: Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth
    Identifying high-growth microentrepreneurs in low-income countries remains a challenge due to a scarcity of verifiable information. With a cash grant experiment in India we demonstrate that community knowledge can help target high-growth microentrepreneurs; while the... View Details
    Keywords: Microentrepreneurs; Community Information; Field Experiment; Loans; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Financing and Loans; Information; Mathematical Methods; India
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    • 2010
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Fashioning an Industry: Cognitive Processes and the Construction of Worth in the Institutionalization of a New Industry

    By: Mukti Khaire
    This inductive study of the high-end fashion industry in India explores how the worth of a new industry is constructed. Interviews with entrepreneurs and constituents of the field revealed that the worth of the industry was constructed through framing by early... View Details
    Keywords: Market Design; Framework; Entrepreneurship; Value; Cognition and Thinking; Industry Structures; Fashion Industry; India
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World's Largest Democracy?

    By: Lakshmi Iyer and Maya Reddy
    In 2008, the boundaries of national and state electoral constituencies in India were redrawn for the first time in three decades. We use detailed demographic and electoral data to construct measures of the extent of redistricting in a given constituency. We find the... View Details
    Keywords: Political Elections; India
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    • February 1997
    • Case

    RPG Enterprises--1995

    By: Tarun Khanna
    As in most emerging markets, a significant portion of the Indian private sector is dominated by extensively diversified, often family-owned or controlled, business groups. This case examines the strategy and structure of one of the largest business groups in India, at... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Alignment; Policy; Problems and Challenges; India
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    • July 2024
    • Article

    JUE Insight: Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network

    By: Abhiman Das, Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover, William Kerr and Ramana Nanda
    We use data from Reserve Bank of India to study the impact of India's Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on finance-dependent activity. Loan volumes increase by 20-30% in districts along GQ and are stronger in industries more dependent upon external finance.... View Details
    Keywords: Highways; Finance; Development; Infrastructure; Banks and Banking; Transportation Networks; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; India
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?

    By: Shawn A. Cole, Thomas Sampson and Bilal Zia
    Financial development is critical for growth, but its micro-determinants are not well understood. We test leading theories of low demand for financial services in emerging markets, combining novel survey evidence from Indonesia and India with a field experiment. We... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Saving; Knowledge Acquisition; Emerging Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry; India; Indonesia
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    • December 2011
    • Article

    Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?

    By: Shawn A. Cole, Thomas Sampson and Bilal Zia
    Financial development is critical for growth, but its micro-determinants are not well understood. We test leading theories of low demand for financial services in emerging markets, combining novel survey evidence from Indonesia and India with a field experiment. We... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Knowledge; Demand and Consumers; Emerging Markets; Banks and Banking; Education; Finance; Behavior; Service Operations; Financial Services Industry; India; Indonesia
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      The Ordinary Heroes of the Taj Hotel

      On the 26th of November 2008, a group of terrorists struck a dozen targets in Mumbai, India including the iconic, 103-year old Taj Palace Hotel. The siege at the hotel  lasted two days and three nights and was covered extensively by international media. But there is an... View Details
      • 04 Mar 2013
      • News

      HBS at the Kumbh Mela

      • 26 Nov 2012
      • News

      The Ordinary Heroes of the Taj Hotel