The Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School hosted Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India, on 9 June 2009. Dr Kalam spoke eloquently about the need for both corporations and nations to cultivate creative leadership. The world economy is undergoing dramatic and fundamental changes. The centre ...

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

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 ...