·Economy, Policy & Society
Come together, right now
We can create better policies when different voices are given room. And solve complex challenges when people and institutions work together to make use of their unique capabilities
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Discover what's capturing attention across the Founding Fuel network this week.
·Economy, Policy & Society
The purpose of the enterprise
Businesses, and inventors in technologies, must be held accountable for the impacts their products have on the lives of their customers and on societies. We must ask, why is this to be done? Who will benefit? Who may be harmed by it?
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission
·Technology & the Future
A mission to solve grand challenges
Grand challenges that bring together government, universities and industry, can solve near future problems using technologies innovatively
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N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
·Economy, Policy & Society
Extinction and The Founder Principle
To survive as a species, it is important that diversity be preserved. But all discourse is such that it is insular. Some thoughts embedded to infuse diversity
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Speed and critics vs. velocity and the moon
Critics celebrated Team Indus’ for not making it to the moon. But that is the nature of critics. Those who can imagine and have muscle, continue to aim for the moon
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
The thinking Indian’s guide to Aadhaar
How should you think of Aadhaar? What are the issues at stake?
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
The b-school campus placement BS—and how to clean it up
This is the time of year when thousands of young MBAs go through their rites of passage. Yet for a while now, campus placement in India’s busi-ness schools have hopelessly derailed. And it’ll take considerable effort and a bunch of new ideas to get them back on track
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Agile start-ups, large firms and a jugalbandi for innovation
When the agility of start-ups is combined with the scale of a corporation, great things can happen. Snapshots from the SJPIMR Business – Academia Conclave 2018, hosted by SPJIMR in partnership with Founding Fuel
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Those who see problems as opportunities
This Week: Frugal innovation and doing better with less, fixing affordable housing, what ails research in B-schools, and the world in 2018
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
How to solve the affordable housing conundrum
Smart entrepreneurs are best placed to solve the affordable housing crisis. But they need the government’s support
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
The trends to watch in 2018
Insights into the forces that will shape the world, from The Economist report, ‘The World in 2018’
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·Business & Strategy
How business schools in India have killed off research
New, bold and unconventional approaches are needed to resuscitate the research culture
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Harsh Vardhan
Strategy Consultant
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The alchemy that transforms adversity into opportunity
The very scarcities of resources India faces gives it a natural advantage in taking leadership in frugal engineering and rewriting the playbook on innovation. In a session hosted by CII, Gopichand Katragadda, Navi Radjou, Shantam Shukla, Suneel TS and Vaibhav Chhabra discuss how
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·Technology & the Future
The best of ’17
This week: Making sense of technology, innovating for India, and our best stories in 2017
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
How to innovate for India
Entrepreneurial leaders like Medtronic Labs’ Omar Ishrak and Khan Academy’s Salman Khan are showing how low-cost, disruptive, local solutions can open up new opportunities in emerging markets
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel