Liberating Data: Challenges and Opportunities
An array of presenters at the Open Data Camp discussed the challenges and opportunities of open data and the compromises...
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Past Issues
Triple Bottom Line Performance: The Role of Business in Nation Building
YC Deveshwar is the Chairman of ITC Limited, one of India’s leading private sector companies with a market capitalisation of...
Read moreThe Financial Value of Real Options
CAF Academic Fellow Eduardo Schwartz, California Chair in Real Estate and Land Economics, UCLA Anderson School of Management, was at...
Read moreClean Air Express: The Delhi Metro’s Impact on Air Quality
The Delhi Metro plies across one of the most densely populated and polluted cities of India. Can this mass transit...
Read moreMental Kartha Hai: Indian Urban Slums and Unmasking the Mobile Internet
For teenagers at the bottom of the pyramid, adopting and persisting with the Internet is the result of innovations to...
Read moreA Microfinance Journey
In their case study of Krishna Bhima Samruddhi Local Area Bank (KBSLAB), a microfinance institution, the authors take us through...
Read moreSupersizing Taste: Intuitions about Food and Consumer Choice
Many consumers believe that “unhealthy = tasty,” and its reverse that “healthy = not tasty.” In his study on the pervasiveness...
Read moreCalculating Intangibles: Drivers of Firm Performance
The research featured in this issue is drawn from papers presented at the Summer Research Conference in Corporate Finance organised by the Centre for Analytical Finance at the ISB and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Shedding new light on aspects as diverse as corporate boards, corporate philanthropy, political speech and innovation, together these four articles illuminate the intangible drivers of firm productivity and performance, and the economy at large. Professor Krishnamurthy Subramanian of the Indian School of Business, and the organiser of the conference, connects the dots.
Read morePolitical Speech and Economic Outcomes: Running the Numbers
Professors Art Durnev, Larry Fauver and Nandini Gupta present a summary of the findings of their textual analysis of gubernatorial...
Read moreFamily Firms and Boards of Directors
Critical differences in board tenures and characteristics between family and nonfamily firms affect firm value and performance, argue Professors Huimin...
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