India Research Center - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jul 2013
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Embracing Chaos

Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

15 Nov 2020
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

of 10 HBS alumni. During the virtual gathering, the alumni provided insights from their experiences navigating the economic downturns of 2002 and 2008 and shared their views about long-term career development. India View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books

Win in India, Win Everywhere by Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992) (Harvard Business Review Press) India is a growing destination for multinational expansion. Venkatesan gives his views on how to tackle the challenges of the Indian market (slow... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

an unsatisfactory outpatient experience at a government-run facility, she also received ineffective treatments from an untrained local practitioner. She is feeling increasing physical discomfort, general weakness, and growing alarm about her situation. The scene is the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2003
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The Next Big Thing

research and commercialization of biotechnology and biomedicine, the life sciences’ core activities? And what steps must be taken to maintain preeminence? In a keynote presentation at a September “Massachusetts Life Sciences Summit,” HBS... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

of doing any business with you? My bank adviser can guarantee higher returns than you can.” Such was the investment climate in India during the spring of 2007 as Dhruv Agarwala and Kartik Varma (both MBA ’02) attempted to get their... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Dec 2007
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Letters to the Editor

while on the faculty here; indeed, our ongoing collaboration has enriched my research and teaching immeasurably. Amy C. Edmondson (PhDOB ’96) Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management Harvard Business School, Boston, MA Schumpeter... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
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Cast of Characters

is a thriller: Pakistan, India and the Bomb: Spy Versus Counterspy. At the center of the book is Asaf Ali Khan, a Pakistani university professor pushed by his uncle to spy on India’s secret nuclear weapons... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Apr 2014
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Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize

with his family. One of the businesses of which Waypoint is comprised is Gurnet Point Capital, a health care and life sciences fund recently established and based in Boston. In December 2012, Bertarelli and Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) announced a joint venture, Campus... View Details

Keywords: i-Lab; Harvard Medical School; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Mar 2005
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Dean’s Conference Call Spotlights HBS Global Initiative

TOKYO VISIT: Dean Clark and wife, Sue, with Masako Egawa (MBA '86), Japan Research Office executive director, and University of Tokyo professor Takahiro Fujimoto (DBA '89). Photo Courtesy Japan Research... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2022
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A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

better as Dean.” Light viewed globalization as a significant opportunity for the School and opened a research center in India and the Harvard View Details

Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia

01 Feb 2017
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New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach

practices. Since then, the Initiative has established nine research centers and five offices that facilitate case writing and research; build connections with alumni and other leaders of industry,... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook

When Kathleen Cooke Ryan took up her new role as executive director of the HBS Global Initiative last March, she joined a thriving organization. After the successful 1999 launch of its first international research View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Services

01 Jan 2008
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James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

Wolfensohn Center for Development, a new global poverty research initiative at the Brookings Institution. He is also relishing the opportunity to work with his son, Adam, and daughter Naomi at Wolfensohn &... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Removing Barriers

people from different parts of the world, she notes, is extremely valuable. Prior to coming to HBS, Anita earned a degree in biotechnology and biochemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and then worked in View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Making Change

differently. We envisioned an interdisciplinary social enterprise, with a mission to create inclusive cities where poor and low-income people had greater housing choices. At mHS, we emphasize three principles: community, design, and affordability. We have five... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

12 May 2021
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Aid from Afar

As HBS student Shyamli Badgaiyan watched the COVID-19 crisis surge in India in recent weeks, the Delhi native felt anxious and helpless. “I found myself thinking of ways to help from afar—an instinct I would later learn many students... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2007
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HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report

research that will attract, challenge, and enhance the skills of health-care leaders from around the world. The School opened a new research center in Mumbai, India, in March... View Details