A Short Guide to Smart Cities in India
The first of the ISBInsight Short Guide series based on insights from our archives.
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Recent books received on innovation, economics and public policy
Read moreGoing to Pieces? Go for a Walk
Overwhelmed with emotion? Lisa Feldman Barrett has a simple solution in this incisively researched book: Move. Movement and changing context help recategorise how you feel.
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Understanding Indian Consumers By Durairaj Maheswaran and Thomas Puliyel Oxford University Press India, 2017; Marketing Marketing to India’s diverse and...
Read moreThe Three Circles of Family Business
Professor Kavil Ramachandran explains how the Three Circles model developed by Renato Tagiuri and John Davis in the late 1970s revolutionised understanding of family businesses
Read moreThe Underappreciated Role of Management
Professor Sanjay Kallapur underlines the contemporary relevance of the work of business historian Alfred D. Chandler, who showed how management, more than technology, facilitated the rise of large wealth-creating organisations.
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Little Bites of Big Data for Public Policy By Donald F. Kettl CQ Press, 2018; Public Policy Little Bites of...
Read moreInnovate Remotely, Benefit Globally
The gap between rich nations and emerging economies is closing. As a result, the global dynamics of innovation are changing....
Read moreA City Manager’s Manual: Challenges, Opportunities And The Way Forward
To understand the tightrope that is urban growth management, consider the case of Charlottesville, Virginia, seat of a metropolitan statistical...
Read moreThe 10 Commandments for Family Business
Many of Indian family-owned businesses have moved a long distance from the days when they believed that the companies they...
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