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The Centre for Emerging Markets Solutions at the Indian School of Business (ISB) organized a panel discussion on the challenges of ensuring that the city works for all its stakeholders. Panelists included Mala Rao from Indian Institute of Public Health; Jockin Arputham from National Slum Dwellers Federation; Manoj Kumar from Naandi Foundation and Jerry Rao from Value and Budget Housing …
Read More »The Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club and the Women in Business Club jointly hosted a panel on “The Indian Way of Entrepreneurship” at the Indian School of Business (ISB) recently as part of the Leadership Summit. V S S Mani of Just Dial, the telephone directory, Professor Nandini Vaidyanathan of CARMa, an entrepreneur development center, Hari Balasubramanian of RP Infosystems, …
Read More »The modern theory of justice, expounded in the work of John Rawls and other social philosophers, has been dominated by the ‘transcendental institutionalism’ school of thought that focuses on identifying ‘just’ institutional arrangements for a society. In their quest to identify ideal institutional structures and formulate social contracts to determine acceptable norms of behaviour, they lose sight of the behaviour …
Read More »The Tata Group has gone beyond the pursuit of the top-line and the bottom-line to provide funding support to innumerable individuals and institutional causes. In the course of its philanthropic activities, which spans approximately eighty years, there have been clear watermarks where the Trust has adapted to the challenges of changing times, always spearheading new innovations in Indian philanthropy. The word …
Read More »Balram Halwai, the eponymous White Tiger of Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize-winning novel, is by his own declaration, “a self-taught entrepreneur.” His education in business, such as it is, owes nothing to American books, as he informs the Chinese Premier in the missive that forms the narrative frame of the novel. It comes instead from his years growing up in “an …
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