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Rajendra Pawar, Chairman and Co-Founder of the NIIT Group and founding member of the Governing and Executive Boards at the Indian School of Business, visited the school in September 2018. Reema Gupta, Head of the Centre for Learning and Management Practice at the ISB spoke with him about NIIT’s journey as a pioneer in the information technology skilling and services sectors.
Read moreMallika Srinivasan, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, was the keynote speaker at the Indian School of Business graduation ceremony in April 2018. Saumya Sindhwani, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Strategy group at ISB spoke to Mallika Srinivasan about her experience in working in the male-dominated tractor industry and her thoughts on gender diversity in business.
Read moreDo billions of users really drive US and Chinese tech titans’ big valuations? Will the prosperity of India’s nearly half a billion online users grow enough to make India the next big prize for digital dominance after China? In this video, Professor Tejpavan Gandhok, Clinical Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the ISB questions these two common assumptions.
Read moreDespite India’s dominance in the IT services industry, the world doesn’t perceive India as a modern economy with a competent workforce. Research by Professor Durairaj Maheshwaran and Malika explains the reasons behind this perception and defines ways to change stereotypes to foster confidence in Brand India.
Read moreResearch has found that gender diverse firms result in better shareholder value, say Dr Nupur Bang, Professor Raveendra Chittoor, Professor Kavil Ramachandran and Anierudh Vishwanathan. In India, standalone family firms are the leaders when it comes to gender-diverse Boards of Directors.
Read moreCan home businesses succeed? Which banks use credit scores to evaluate loan applications and why? How has growth of e-commerce retailers like Amazon affected employment and revenues in local retail? And how does better connectivity through roads affect access to credit? On behalf of ISBInsight, Ujval Nanavati spoke with authors of four fascinating research papers presented at the ISB Centre for Analytical Finance’s Summer Research Conference 2018.
Read moreISBInsight caught up with Piyush Sharma, former CEO of New Initiatives at Zee Entertainment, to discuss the disruptions and strategic opportunities created by technology in the media business, at the side-lines of the Thought Leaders Conference on Managing Business and Innovation in Emerging Markets.
Read moreAlthough apps are useful for tracking health, significant privacy concerns remain. The medical data of the users are at the disposal of app developers for business purposes. The privacy policies of these apps are either non-existent or difficult to comprehend, says Preeti Singh.
Read moreProfessor Robert W Palmatier, the John C. Narver Endowed Professor in Business and Administration in the Marketing Department at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, visited the Indian School of Business in April 2018 as part of the Thought Leaders Conference on Managing Business and Innovation in Emerging Markets. Professor S Arunachalam met him to discuss emerging trends in marketing and research.
Read moreIndustry relevance matters. So does a multi-industry perspective. Professor V Kumar at the J Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University was at the Indian School of Business in April 2018 for the Thought Leaders Conference on Managing Business and Innovation in Emerging Markets. Professor Manish Gangwar caught up with him to ask how industry and academia can learn from one another.
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