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Big Data in the Age of Biology
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Big Data in the Age of Biology

Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple sound old. Investors have their eyes on startups invested into healthcare and personal medicine

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

How gig talent can make HR agile
·Leadership & Organisation

How gig talent can make HR agile

HR needs to adopt gig talent first and then scale it for the organisation

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Hari Abburi

Hari Abburi

Global HR Executive

How to sustain winning streaks
·Leadership & Organisation

How to sustain winning streaks

The Indian cricket team’s brilliant run at South Africa holds lessons for how to build the foundation for lasting success

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Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Technology and the new influencers
·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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Founding Fuel

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Count #MeOut of the debate
·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

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

The hotel industry’s big battle with Airbnb
·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

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Come together, right now
·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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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

The purpose of the enterprise
·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

Arun Maira

Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission

A mission to solve grand challenges
·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

N Dayasindhu

Co-founder and CEO | itihaasa Research and Digital

Extinction and The Founder Principle
·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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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

Speed and critics vs. velocity and the moon
·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

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

The b-school campus placement BS—and how to clean it up
·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

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Agile start-ups, large firms and a jugalbandi for innovation
·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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