[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: Bad NRIs; Rich Low Caste, govt MNCs, Trillions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

umesh sharma jaipurschool at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 29 21:24:04 PST 2008 

http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/jan/16nri.htm

NRIs are fairweather friends? Can they prove otherwise?
How many NRIs have even devoted ten percent of their income to better the lives of even family and friends back home - leave alone Indians by the roadside. Ofcourse, most stop drinking anything except bottled water while in India - local water is not good enough. Local culture stinks. All thieves and brigands - ready to suck their money and organs. SO MUCH TRAFFIC, SO CROWDED. No wonder Indians do not feel like sucking up to NRIs - when there are white and Japanese tourists who are ready to backpack , sleep on train floors, eat and drink what they can get, climb Mt Everest, be grateful to be part of Indian culture - like Mark Tully or Franquis Guatier or Mother Teresa or Dalai Lama.

Umesh

umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote: Wonder how can India and China even together have billions of entrepreneurs unless in each family unit there are people who run more than one ventures - one in daytime , another at night etc.

NRIs are bad - so it seems - from Indian perspective - or vice versa. Wonder how Chinese US returned behave - my Chinese roommate seemed much more proud of his nation than others from India. He is back in China - though he had adopted a US name Michael Cheng while in US. In rome do the Romans - as Crocodile Dundee put it in Salaam Namaste  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VRfinEqL_0

umesh

HBS Working Knowledge <workingknowledge at hbs.edu> wrote: To: jaipurschool at YAHOO.COM
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:56:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "HBS Working Knowledge" <workingknowledge at hbs.edu>
Subject: Newsletter: Billions of Entrepreneurs  in China and India

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   Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India 
   A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?  
   Working paper: What Do Non-Governmental Organizations Do? 
   Working paper: The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution 
   Summing Up: Does Judgment Trump Experience?     
  
 ==============================  New on the Site  Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5766.html
 Entrepreneurship in both China and India is rising dramatically and thriving under quite different conditions. HBS professor Tarun Khanna explains what it all means in this Q&A about his new book, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours. Plus: book excerpt.
  
  Op-Ed: A House Divided—Investment or Shelter? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5843.html
 For decades Americans viewed their homes as a safe harbor, a  place to put down roots. But the last decade saw the rise of housing as an investment opportunity. What comes next? asks HBS professor Nicolas P. Retsinas, director of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies.
  
  Working paper: What Do Non-Governmental Organizations Do? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5833.html
 Download the pdf. Non-governmental organizations play an increasingly important role in international development. They serve as a funnel for development funds both from individual donors in wealthy countries and from bilateral aid agencies. At the same time, NGOs are frequently idealized as organizations committed to "doing good" while setting aside profit or politics—a romantic view that is too starry-eyed, according to HBS professor Eric D. Werker and Faisal Z. Ahmed. Their paper argues that the strengths and weaknesses of NGOs easily fit into economists' conceptualization of  not-for-profit contractors.
  
  Working paper: The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution—Evidence from the Software Industry http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5831.html
 Download the pdf. What factors should influence the design of a complex system? And what is the impact of choices on both product and organizational performance? These issues are of particular importance in the field of software given how software is developed: Rarely do software projects start from scratch. Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin analyzed the evolution of a commercial software product from first release to its current design, looking specifically at 6 major versions released at varying periods over a 15-year period. These results have important implications for managers, highlighting the impact of design decisions made today on both the evolution and the maintainability of a  design in subsequent years.
  
  Summing Up: Does Judgment Trump Experience? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5828.html
 Online forum now closed. How is good judgment developed? Whether judgment trumps experience quickly gave way in this month's rich exchange of views to other questions about how (and the extent to which) judgment is developed, says HBS professor Jim Heskett. 
  
  First Look: New Research by HBS Faculty http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5844.html
 New in publications and case studies: What's in a lipstick? More than one way of being beautiful ... Setting the bar in healthcare information technology ... Making better markets.
  
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  New Challenges in Leading Professional Services http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5773.html
  
  Working paper: What Do Non-Governmental Organizations Do? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5833.html
  
  Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5840.html
  
  Working paper: The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5831.html
  
  If Marketing Experts Ran Elections http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5845.html
  
  Best of Faculty Q&As Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5543.html
 It's a fundamental tension many entrepreneurs face,  the conflict between wanting to become rich and wanting to keep control of their new company. Few can have both. In the Q&A from 2006, professor Noam Wasserman discusses his research into the motivations of entrepreneurs and the people who invest in them.
  
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Umesh Sharma

Washington D.C. 

1-202-215-4328 [Cell]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)




www.gse.harvard.edu/iep  (where the above 2 are used )
http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/



http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
       
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