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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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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

Those who see problems as opportunities
·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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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

How to solve the affordable housing conundrum
·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

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

The trends to watch in 2018
·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

D Shivakumar

Operating Partner | Advent International

The alchemy that transforms adversity into opportunity
·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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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

The best of ’17
·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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Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel

How to innovate for India
·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

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Disruptive tech: There’s hope for the future. But fear too
·Technology & the Future

Disruptive tech: There’s hope for the future. But fear too

We are facing an avalanche of disruptive technologies. But adapting to change will not be easy. Sometimes it will even seem traumatic. Some insights from Vivek Wadhwa with Alex Salkever's book ‘The Driver in the Driverless Car’

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D Shivakumar

D Shivakumar

Operating Partner | Advent International

What AI can show us about what it means to be human
·Artificial Intelligence

What AI can show us about what it means to be human

Brian Christian, author of ‘The Most Human Human’ and ‘Algorithms to Live By’, discusses the gaps and overlaps between humans and machines

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CKGSB  Knowledge

CKGSB Knowledge

Knowledge Partner