[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: One Laptop per Child $100 ; $2,500 car of TATA

umesh sharma jaipurschool at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 31 14:12:43 PST 2007 

Will it be useful from Assamese school kids? I read that IIT-Guwahati is designing computer courses for school children on the behest of Assam CM Tarun Gogoi. But if this laptop is so slow then better to go for India assembled laptops or PCs - which use pirated software and cost about Rs13,000 or $300 (that was a real company made one), 

At age thirty five I bought my first computer - six months back and had never used a computer till high school - even there only for 30 minutes each week. 
Is computer of any use if you cannot hook it with internet? I started using it only after internet was available - but avoided the viruses by never buying a computer - only in cyber cafes for Rs20 per hour (50 cents ).

Ofcourse,, MIT named a star in honor of a schoolboy from my hometown in 2003 when he became the youngest person (age 14) to clear the MCSE exam - Microsoft Certified Software Engineer

Any comments?


Umesh
PS: Tata's $2300 car is also Action Pricing ?

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   Highlights this Week   
   HBS Cases: One Laptop per Child 
   Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing 
   Working paper: Dynamics of Platform Competition 
   What Do You Think: What Is Management's Role in Innovation? 
   First Look: Research by HBS faculty    
  
 ==============================  New on the Site  HBS Cases: One Laptop per Child http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5813.html
 The One Laptop per Child initiative wants to develop and distribute $100 laptops to poor children around the world. Despite eager observers and exciting breakthroughs technologically, it has found the path to customers more rocky than anticipated. Marketing has some answers, as a new case study details. Q&A with HBS professor John Quelch.
  
  Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5790.html
 Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on improving your business skills. This pick of marketing pieces addresses questions such as: How can marketing better align with corporate strategy? Can you place a value on networked customers? Are your new stores cannibalizing direct sales? Should you break out individual costs on a price tag?
  
  Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, 
Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5817.html
 Download the working paper. Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti examine the evolution of platform-based markets and find that a huge quality advantage may not be necessary for an entrant to be successful. In fact, when market dynamics are driven by quality, a platform with a small quality advantage can also be successful.
  
  What Do You Think: What Is Management's Role in Innovation? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5821.html
 Online forum OPEN until Tuesday, December 18. It's an open question whether management, as it is currently practiced, contributes much to creativity and innovation, says HBS professor Jim Heskett. What changes will allow managers, particularly in larger organizations, to add value to the creative process? What do you think?
  
  First Look: New Research by HBS Faculty http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5822.html
 This week in publications and case studies: Shaping the conversation in multi-party negotiations ... Better luck with online dating ... A corporate caterer meets China's financial markets.
  
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  Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5812.html
  
  What Do You Think: What Is Management's Role in Innovation? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5821.html
  
  Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5790.html
  
  B2B Branding: Does it Work? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5819.html
  
  The Founding CEO's Dilemma: Stay or Go? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4948.html
  
  Best of Faculty Q&As The Founding CEO's Dilemma: Stay or Go? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4948.html
 Bill Gates and Larry Ellison are rare birds. In this interview from August 2005 by HBS senior lecturer Mike Roberts for New Business, professor Noam Wasserman explains how and why many founding chief executives find themselves replaced.
  
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Umesh Sharma

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