Google Tech Talks
March 12, 2009
ABSTRACT
"Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours"
Removing half a billion people from poverty and into the producti...
Google Tech Talks March 12, 2009
ABSTRACT
"Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours"
Removing half a billion people from poverty and into the productive workforce will profoundly affect on the world economy. India and China are doing just that with insane growth rates and lots of what used to be American jobs: China is the factory floor and India the back-office, software shop. China is top-down party driven. India is a messy, vibrant democracy.
This may be the complementary duo that changes the world. Including your world.
Come hear Professor Tarun Khanna in a discussion about his book, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours. Called well worth reading by The Economist and entertaining by the Financial Times, Khanna's book shows how Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs are creating change through new business models.
Speaker: Tarun Khanna Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he has studied and worked with multinational and indigenous companies and investors in emerging markets worldwide. He joined the faculty in 1993, after obtaining an engineering degree from Princeton University (1988) and a Ph.D. from Harvard (1993), and an interim stint on Wall Street. During this time, he has served as the head of several courses on strategy and international business targeted to MBA students and senior executives at Harvard.
His new book, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours, was published in February 2008 by Harvard Business School Press (Penguin in South Asia), with translations into several languages underway. It focuses on the drivers of entrepreneurship in China and India and builds on over a decade of work with companies, investors and non-profits in developing countries worldwide.
His scholarly work has been published in a range of economics and management journals, several of which he also serves in an editorial capacity. Articles in the Harvard Business Review (e.g. China + India: The Power of Two, 2007; Emerging Giants: Building World Class Companies in Emerging Markets, 2006) and Foreign Policy (e.g. Can India Overtake China?, 2003) distill the implications of this research for practicing managers. His work is frequently featured in global news magazines as well as on TV and radio.
He serves on the boards and advisory boards of several companies in the financial services, automotive, life sciences and agribusiness sectors. He actively invests in and mentors startups in Asia, and volunteers time with non-profits in India, e.g. the Parliamentary Research Services in New Delhi, which seeks to provide non-partisan research input to Indias Members of Parliament in advance of legislative sessions with a view to enhancing the quality of democratic discourse.
In 2007, he was nominated to be a Young Global Leader (under 40) by the World Economic Forum.
He makes his home in Newton, MA, with his wife, daughter and son.
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Fuck you Prof. Khanna and your patronising talk about India (AND China, actually). And stop boasting about being an "academic".
If you guys at Harvard Business School had half an idea what you and your so called academic field is, we would not have this recession on our hands. So admit that you guys are worthless cheats, stop producing those good for nothing MBAs and get lost.
See if you can put your brains to a REAL science instead of that fake rubbish you teach.
See, it comes down to the basic philosophical question - If by killing a poor little girl, all diseases of humanity could be eradicated, would you kill the little girl?
Indian governance system would most definitely say No. I'm curious to know how would the Chinese system react to this dilemma.
the end does not justify the means. on the other hand, if the girl attacked me with a knife and tried murdering me, than its ok to stop her by killing her in self defense
The funny thing is that China - a country that discourages individual rights, debates, rule of law, will continue growing for these very reasons. The very reasons that most western academics believe are the fundamentals of good governance are the very reasons that are holding india back - thus more democracy is actually holding india back while less freedom/democracy is actually pushing China's growth rate to above 10% ... That's Funny !
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If you guys at Harvard Business School had half an idea what you and your so called academic field is, we would not have this recession on our hands. So admit that you guys are worthless cheats, stop producing those good for nothing MBAs and get lost.
See if you can put your brains to a REAL science instead of that fake rubbish you teach.
Indian governance system would most definitely say No. I'm curious to know how would the Chinese system react to this dilemma.
It should be respected.