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Defying the Odds: Invigorating Accounts of Dalit Entrepreneurship

Since independence, India has had a strong commitment to social justice, particularly towards making sure that the centuries of acute discrimination against those at the bottom of the caste hierarchy come to an end. Besides making untouchability illegal, reservation of seats in institutions of higher education and government jobs has been the cornerstone of the government’s policy in ensuring the social and economic advancement of the scheduled castes and tribes.

Rishikesha Krishnan22 Sept 2014

Profiling Gram Oorja and PARFI: Two Exciting Social Enterprises

In recent years, it has been heartening to see a good number of well-qualified and “successful” men and women from “middle class India” take on the challenge of national development. The social enterprise bug has bitten these professionals and they have taken on, in their own way, some of the country’s biggest challenges.

Rishikesha Krishnan19 Sept 2014

SDA Bocconi’s India campus gets its first Indian dean - IIML’s Dr. Himanshu Rai to head MISB Bocconi

Europe’s premier B-school SDA Bocconi School of Management, situated in Milan, Italy, today announced the appointment of Dr Himanshu Rai as the Dean of its India campus, MISB Bocconi, in Powai.

SDA Bocconi Asia Center16 Sept 2014

The Role of Academic Institutions in Supporting Thought Leadership

India can be the home of thought leaders across disciplines. We have some impressive role models – Professor J. Ramachandran from IIM Bangalore whom I wrote about two weeks ago, and people like Anil Gupta, Ramachandra Guha, Raghunath Mashelkar, A. Paulraj and Manindra Agarwal whom I wrote about last week.

Rishikesha Krishnan08 Sept 2014

Becoming an Impactful Scholar: A 5-Point Individual Agenda - From the IIM Indore Director's Desk

This year I had multiple opportunities to speak to doctoral students and faculty at some of our leading institutions. IIM Rohtak had organized an internal Faculty Development Workshop; IIM Ahmedabad invited me to speak to their new cohort of doctoral students; and we had our own Faculty Development Programme (see picture below) as well as the Conference for Excellence in Research & Education (CERE) at IIM Indore.

Rishikesha Krishnan01 Sept 2014

Creating Management Thought Leadership In India - From IIM Indore Director's Desk

There is a gradual yet perceptible change happening in our top management institutions as far as research and publication is concerned. More faculty are taking research seriously, and targeting top journals to publish their findings. This shift is the result of three drivers: Firstly, institutional policy changes now place more emphasis on research output as a requirement for promotion. Secondly, a new generation of better trained and research-oriented faculty has joined these institutions. And, thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, there is a growing aspiration to be seen as more than a teacher, i.e. to make a place for oneself among the larger academic peer community. The Challenge of Thought Leadership

Team InsideIIM22 Aug 2014

Can China Lead in Innovation? - IIM Indore Director's Analysis

I just finished reading a fascinating book, Can China Lead?: Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014) by three very experienced scholars from Harvard Business School and Wharton. For a book whose central text (excluding appendices, tables and notes) is just 180 pages, this book is majestic in its sweep as it seeks to cover history, politics, economics and business in China.

Rishikesha Krishnan11 Aug 2014

Can India Arrest the Slide in its Innovation Ranking?

Over the last few years, the Global Innovation Index (GII) compiled annually by INSEAD, WIPO and Cornell University has become the most commonly accepted global indicator of nations’ innovation performance. So, there has been much angst in India over the last couple of weeks once it emerged that India has fallen 10 places in the last year from 66 to 76. [Link]

Rishikesha Krishnan04 Aug 2014