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- 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007
Course MaterialsBASIX Harvard Business School Case 207-099 BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
Review 87, no. 4 (April 2009) No abstract is available at this time. Purchase the article: http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/04/how-to-market-in-a-downturn/ar/1 Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and Gujarati-speaking Indians are similarly 108 times more concentrated in managing motels. We develop a model of social interactions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015
Primary Education in the Himalayan Region By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—Himachal Pradesh outperforms other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through comparative field research, this article finds that bureaucratic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
in India and outline both quantitative and qualitative evidence from 42 Indian state-owned laboratories to support this argument. August 2013 Journal of Economic History Colonial Institutions, Commodity Booms, and the Diffusion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23
in India: Aditya Birla Financial Services Group Aditya Birla Financial Services Group is a large, broad-based, Indian financial services institution offering products ranging from life insurance and mutual funds to private equity. The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5
513-044 From modest beginnings as a cashew trader in Nigeria, Olam, founded by Indian nationals in 1989, has grown into a leading global agricultural trading company, with annual revenues of $14 billion. The company recently has begun... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010
Steel, India's largest private sector steel company, as it transitions from Indian GAAP to IFRS. It first describes those challenges in the context of the institutional voids that make IFRS adoption difficult in India. The case then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6
Using the example of Indian firms, we show that an influential finding is reversed when we take these differences into account. We further argue that the conventional wisdom about tunneling and business groups will need to be reformulated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010
We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
by changing tasks and greater interpersonal team diversity. Using detailed project—and individual-level data from an Indian software services firm, we find that the interaction of task change and intrapersonal diversity is related to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006
Indian pharmaceutical company, Cipla, to bring down the annual per-patient cost of an ARV triple cocktail from $12,000 to under $250; using ARV development as a key component of its prevention and treatment strategy the Brazilian National... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Change: The Expansion of Primary Education in India By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—This article analyzes India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. This programmatic policy change is puzzling given the clientelistic features of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3
Research Center: Growing a Joint Research Venture in India Bristol Myers Squibb, a multi-national pharmaceutical company, is seeking to globalize its R&D strategy while managing costs. It has formed a joint venture with an Indian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
collaboration to access new capabilities and deliver superior levels of product differentiation? That value is harder to measure, yet firms must solve this problem or miss out on huge opportunities. Consider Microsoft, which used an View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006
abroad in a cost-effective manner. India's software companies, for instance, recognized the possibility of providing services to overseas customers at least a decade before Western companies even considered hiring Indian software... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Bangladesh, Africa, and Chile, benefiting the public as well as their own enterprises. He then describes how an Indian health care organization is tackling institutional voids as it expands into medical tourism in the Cayman Islands. An... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
slipped behind its Indian competitors and multinational companies. Details the first phase of the transformation Nayar led in hopes of rejuvenating the industry pioneer. The tagline for this phase was "Employee First, Customer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace