·Technology & the Future
Technology and the new influencers
This Week: Airbnb vs the hospitality industry, developing a unique perspective, and why Big Tech needs to be disrupted
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Count #MeOut of the debate
Much of how we live is dictated by narratives amplified by those perceived as influencers. It’s time to shut the noise out and seek our own individual narratives
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
The hotel industry’s big battle with Airbnb
Airbnb may have changed the game with its online home stay listing model. But the hotel industry isn’t waiting in the sidelines. It is fighting back
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·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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·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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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·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