Designer Manish Arora says that Indian designs should be modernised, not Westernized, to be accessible in the global marketplace while retaining a uniquely Indian identity. A serial collaborator, Arora has worked with MAC cosmetics, Reebok, Disney and most recently with Nivea. Here, we see a selection of the designer's fashions, ...
Professor Jaideep Prabhu, Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Director of the Centre for India & Global Business, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge explains why governments across Europe and North America are banking on innovation, or the successful commercial exploitation of new ideas, to kick start economies and help ...
Parminder Vir, Executive Producer and Media Consultant believes that the film industry is moving from a Hollywood dominated culture to a peer-to-peer environment as more emerging countries structure global partnerships. Parminder Vir believes this shift requires a re-think, especially by the West, of market entry strategies which take into account ...
How do you bring highly customised sustainable energy services to the urban poor and to remote rural populations in India? Harish Hande, who set up solar lighting firm SELCO in 1995 has found his answer to this important question. While earning his PhD from University of Massachusetts (Lowell), USA, Harish ...
In his latest Harvard Business Publishing blog post, Centre for India & Global Business Excecutive Director Navi Radjou explores frugal mobile innovation at Obopay, a mobile payment startup fueling a social revolution worldwide by enabling scores of unbanked people to access financial services for the first time. Read more
Professor Anil K. Gupta, Indian Institute of Management, Co-ordinator, SRISTI and Honey Bee Network, and Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation explains why grassroots inventors, the 'knowledge holders', with their cultural and economic creativity, will unlock the key to India's future.
Rohan Sippy, Bollywood Producer and Director, Patrick von Sychowski, Chief Operating Officer, Adlabs Digital Cinema, and Allègre Hadida, Lecturer in Strategy, Judge Business School engage in a lively discussion that addresses the impact of the economic down turn is on the film industry. It might just be that "East" can ...
Guruduth Banavar of IBM India predicts that "the mobile phone will have the same transformation power on society in India, as the Internet did in the West". One such example is the spoken web system, which allows villagers can create a "voice-site" (similar to a website) which other people can access ...
