ISBInsight is the Flagship Research Periodical of the Indian School of Business
Chiraag Paul is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Proem Sports, one of the pioneers in off-field sports analytics in India and Asia. Paul is also an experienced professional footballer, having represented and played for top-division clubs in England, Brazil and India. Deepak Agrawal, Associate Director of the ISB Applied Statistics and Computing Lab, caught up with Paul during his visit to the Hyderabad campus.
Read moreISB Dean Professor Rajendra Srivastava is one of the world’s leading authorities on Marketing Strategy and Innovation. A highly cited scholar with works published in leading marketing journals and recipient of several awards and honours, Dean Srivastava has also advised and trained senior management at global multinational corporations. How can India make the innovation leap? Dean Srivastava’s argument is edited and extracted from his inaugural address at the India Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition Conference.
Read moreSameer Khetarpal, Country Head of Amazon Grocery and Raja MVSMA, Vice President Emerging Markets, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories were plenary speakers at the Thought Leaders Conference on Managing Business and Innovation in Emerging Markets, hosted by the Indian School of Business in April 2018. ISBInsight caught up with them after their session to hear their ideas on marketing research areas that need more academic attention.
Read moreRichard R. Smith, Academic Director of the Master of Science in Human Capital and Leadership programme at Singapore Management University (SMU), delivered the keynote address at the inaugural Thought Leaders’ Summit on the Future of Human Capital Strategies at the ISB. Chandrasekhar Sripada, Clinical Professor in the Organisational Behaviour and Strategic Human Capital Area at the ISB, outlined the agenda for a new ISB Human Capital and Leadership Initiative (HC&LI). ISBInsight caught up with the two speakers.
Read moreWhat were the key success factors for Arogya Parivar, a bottom-of-the-pyramid initiative by Swiss pharmaceutical major Novartis? In this article, Meenakshee Sinha and Professor S. Arunachalam present a replicable fast-moving consumer good blueprint for rural marketing based on the Arogya Parivar experience.
Read moreWhile cigarette smoking is on the wane, ‘vaping’ is on the rise worldwide. Do e-cigarettes really help smokers kick the nicotine habit? And what may be the best public policy options for regulating their use? Research by Professor Vithala R. Rao and Dr Jialie Chen offers some answers.
Read moreD. Shivakumar visited the Indian School of Business to deliver the keynote address at the Thought Leaders’ Summit on Shaping the Future of Human Capital Strategies in March 2018. Currently, the Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy at Aditya Birla Group, D. Shivakumar has had a long and illustrious career at PepsiCo Holdings India, Nokia and other leading corporates. Professor S. Ramnarayan caught up with D. Shivakumar after his visit to discuss the future of human capital in India.
Read moreAvik Sarkar, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at NITI Aayog, and in-charge of the NITI Aayog Data Analytics Cell visited the Applied Statistics and Computing Lab at ISB in March 2018. Below are excerpts of his conversation with the Late Professor Bhimasankaram Pochiraju, Clinical Professor and Executive Director of the ASCL.
Read moreThe mantra of winner-take-all appears to be the underlying economic assumption behind the flood of interest and investment in digital start-ups in the past few years, argues Professor Tejpavan Gandhok. Are winner-take-all online platforms really as inevitable as they are perceived to be, especially in e-commerce and online taxi hailing in India?
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