Google Tech Talks
March 12, 2009
ABSTRACT
“Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours”
Removing half a billion people from poverty and into the productive workforce will profoundly affect on the world economy. India and China are doing just that with insane growth rates and lots of what used to be American jobs: China is the factory floor and India the back-office, software shop. China is top-down party driven. India is a messy, vibrant democracy.
This may be the complementary duo that changes the world. Including your world.
Come hear Professor Tarun Khanna in a discussion about his book, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours. Called well worth reading by The Economist and entertaining by the Financial Times, Khanna’s book shows how Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs are creating change through new business models.
Speaker: Tarun Khanna
Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he has studied and worked with multinational and indigenous companies and investors in emerging markets worldwide. He joined the faculty in 1993, after obtaining an engineering degree from Princeton University (1988) and a Ph.D. from Harvard (1993), and an interim stint on Wall Street. During this time, he has served as the head of several courses on strategy and international business targeted to MBA students and senior executives at Harvard.
His new book, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours, was published in February 2008 by Harvard Business School Press (Penguin in South Asia), with translations into several languages underway. It focuses on the drivers of entrepreneurship in China and India and builds on over a decade of work with companies, investors and non-profits in developing countries worldwide.
His scholarly work has been published in a range of economics and management journals, several of which he also serves in an editorial capacity. Articles in the Harvard Business Review (e.g. China + India: The Power of Two, 2007; Emerging Giants: Building World Class Companies in Emerging Markets, 2006) and Foreign Policy (e.g. Can India Overtake China?, 2003) distill the implications of this research for practicing managers. His work is frequently featured in global news magazines as well as on TV and radio.
He serves on the boards and advisory boards of several companies in the financial services, automotive, life sciences and agribusiness sectors. He actively invests in and mentors startups in Asia, and volunteers time with non-profits in India, e.g. the Parliamentary Research Services in New Delhi, which seeks to provide non-partisan research input to Indias Members of Parliament in advance of legislative sessions with a view to enhancing the quality of democratic discourse.
In 2007, he was nominated to be a Young Global Leader (under 40) by the World Economic Forum.
He makes his home in Newton, MA, with his wife, daughter and son.
Duration : 0:55:9
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January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Gurkhas are mongol …
Gurkhas are mongol tribe such Thapa mager, Rai, Lama, Tamang, Limbu, Gurung etc. so first investigate and write comments.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
they will brainwash …
they will brainwash that poor girl and make her to say yes
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Who is this f*cking …
Who is this f*cking idiot!? Let’s go to Harvard to kick his ass!
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
the end does not …
the end does not justify the means. on the other hand, if the girl attacked me with a knife and tried murdering me, than its ok to stop her by killing her in self defense
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Interesting
Interesting
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Fuck you Prof. …
you Prof. Khanna and your patronising talk about India (AND China, actually). And stop boasting about being an “academic”.
If you guys at Harvard Business School had half an idea what you and your so called academic field is, we would not have this recession on our hands. So admit that you guys are worthless cheats, stop producing those good for nothing MBAs and get lost.
See if you can put your brains to a REAL science instead of that fake rubbish you teach.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Chinese won’t have …
Chinese won’t have to react. Japanese/Germans would’ve killed the girl already.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
See, it comes down …
See, it comes down to the basic philosophical question – If by killing a poor little girl, all diseases of humanity could be eradicated, would you kill the little girl?
Indian governance system would most definitely say No. I’m curious to know how would the Chinese system react to this dilemma.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Yeah, I have been …
Yeah, I have been having a lot of success with the newsletter from authoropen . com
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Again, it is …
Again, it is acutally more democracy that may hold India back, and it is less freedom/democracy in China that is fueling its growth.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
The funny thing is …
The funny thing is that China – a country that discourages individual rights, debates, rule of law, will continue growing for these very reasons. The very reasons that most western academics believe are the fundamentals of good governance are the very reasons that are holding india back – thus more democracy is actually holding india back while less freedom/democracy is actually pushing China’s growth rate to above 10% … That’s Funny !
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Every USD china …
Every USD china earned from abroad, it deserved to their work.
It should be respected.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
he wasn’t a Chinese …
he wasn’t a Chinese…. refer history….
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
thats how hinduism …
thats how hinduism is able to survive all these years, it accepts better ideologies and capable of reshaping it self over the time…. the religion which tolerates other ideologies, grows.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
hundreds of these …
hundreds of these mythical billions have to crawl out of AIDS and malnutrition and a turgid bureacrazy first-
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
No – there was only …
No – there was only 250′000 to 300′000 Tibetans Refugee
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
look at american …
look at american top unis… they are filled with chinkies.. lots of american jobs have been lost to china… china holds trillions of usd …
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
“We will dismember …
“We will dismember India.” ~ Jaish-e-Mohammad, Pakistani terrorist organization, 2008
“China can dismember the so-called Indian Union with One Little Move” ~ article by Zhan Lue, China Intl. Strategy Net, Aug, 2009
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
For them to fully …
For them to fully develop their potential, they both need to overcome their shortcomings. In China’s case democratic institutions need to be more developed, and for India’s the hard infrastructure needs to be speeded up. However, I agree with him that these will take more time than people hope will take, but I certainly believe they’re absolutely possible.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
It doesn’t however …
It doesn’t however mean that both lack what the other has, it’s only that one finds it more difficult to progress on what the other finds it only natural. What he’s trying to say is that China is politically not the same like 10 years ago, but the progress is still slow compared to its infrastructure growth. In India, it’s the other way round, infrastructure is being transformed, but not fast enough to accommodate its growth because of the legal system.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Guys, guys, …
Guys, guys, comments are getting off-topic now. Finally, there is an educated guy holding a seminar with well-researched material, and people are more interested in each other comments than his. In short what he’s saying that China is more focused on the public interest and has an advantage over India in hard infrastructure (roads, buildings, public places), while India is more on private interest and has an edge over China in soft infrastructure (legal system, investor protection).
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Population is not …
Population is not equal to market until it is empowered by education and job creation. So the risk of a new world order dominated by China or India is non-existent.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
I am Indian and i …
I am Indian and i totally disaprove the title, India of all the countries? How about including Congo as well?
India had thousands of prince states and now have thousand of political parties. The energy of the poor is sucked by the rich money men because there is no one pointed aim where the energy can be directed.
Change the thousand god religion in india into no god, we will imm see a one party state and we will have progress for the people, not an elite few.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
india had been …
india had been rfuge for jews for 2000 years , parsis from iran for 1000 years, 5 million tibetians from last 50 years. now indian become refugee in india. but india is rich in empathy and love and compasion. it is nice to see 2000 years old refugees going back to their own countries. by the way when europeans came to india they chased the jews to jungles. and when islam came to india they try to chase parsis
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 am
In China, first, …
In China, first, there is a part of culture that centralism management. secondly, since ww1 till the cold war the sort of suspect private right may bring up separate by weatern leading us lost indepent building up.