ISBInsight is the Flagship Research Periodical of the Indian School of Business
Leading investment and financial experts presented on the outlook for investments in India at the IIC 2014 jointly hosted by the Centre for Investment at the ISB and the IAIP. The fourth India Investment Conference held on January 17, 2014 at Mumbai, was yet again received with enthusiasm by participants. Jointly organised and hosted by the Indian School of Business (ISB) …
Read More »KLL - The Growth Story Ketan Logistics Limited (KLL) had started out as a modest commercial transportation business in 1986 and emerged as an integrated, end-to-end logistics service provider by 2014. The company had grown from strength to strength. At the helm of affairs was Rohit’s father, Ravi Kumar Gupta, KLL’s Chairman and Managing Director, who had been shouldering the overall responsibility of …
Read More »The recently held Digital Summit at the Indian School of Business (ISB) was inaugurated by a special workshop that provided small and medium businesses with some useful tips on taming the digital revolution. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) globally have been slow to catch on to the information technology (IT) bandwagon, whether it was due to lack of access, affordability (both …
Read More »At a recent conference organised by the Bharti Institute of Public Policy at the Indian School of Business (ISB) and the Consulate General of the United States, scholars and thinktank experts addressed a range of critical issues facing India and the US as they aspire to engage meaningfully with the Middle East and ensure stability and security in the region. This …
Read More »An array of presenters at the Open Data Camp discussed the challenges and opportunities of open data and the compromises required to balance private and public interest in the coming data deluge. Open data and data liberation were the themes for a day-long camp held at the Indian School of Business (ISB) on 22 June 2013. Organised by the Asia Analytics …
Read More »More than 33 years ago, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, two Israeli psychologists, published their celebrated paper, “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk,” in the journal Econometrica. In this seminal paper, Kahneman and Tversky explained that people make decisions based on gains and losses arising out of a choice instead of final wealth levels. Since then, the major …
Read More »A recent conference on family business at the ISB gave stakeholders of family controlled businesses an opportunity to share and learn from best practices and develop strategies to sustain their businesses and strengthen family cohesiveness over the long term. Prominent members of the family business community and distinguished business leaders came together at The Fourth Asian Invitational Conference on Family Business, …
Read More »By Gurcharan Das Reviewed by: Lalita Reddi, Research Associate at ISB India Grows at Night, by celebrated author, Gurcharan Das, traces events in the country’s recent history and provides a philosophical insight into India’s bottom-up approach vis-à-vis China’s top-down approach of development. Based on his experiences, Das cites events that made headlines to support his argument that India has grown and prospered …
Read More »How can we strengthen organisations and the financial system to mitigate risks and prevent disasters such as the devastating financial crisis of 2007-2009? Distinguished speakers from industry, academia and government recently shared their perspectives on risk management and governance at a summit organised in Mumbai by the ISB’s Centre for Investment. The dangers of overdependence on financial models to predict crises, …
Read More »The Srini Raju Centre for Information Technology and the Networked Economy (SRITNE) at the ISB brought together experts from industry and academia to discuss innovations and emerging trends in the digital media at the ISB Digital Summit 2012 that was co-hosted by Jigserv Digital experts from the industry and the academia converged at the ISB recently for the Digital Summit 2012 …
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