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  • APRIL 2024
  • EVENT

“Making a Life” with Gurcharan Das

CEO turned celebrated author, Gurcharan Das, (Harvard AB (1963) and HBS AMP 91 (1983)) recounted his life and work in conversation with Manish Kejriwal, Managing Partner at Kedaara Capital (HBS MBA 1995). He discussed his memoir ‘Another Sort of Freedom’, which explores his teenage days in Washington DC, his life as a philosophy student at Harvard College, and his decision to quit the corporate world at the peak of his career to write. With his quintessential wit and wisdom, he reflected on the difference between making a living and making a life, urging his audience to “take their work seriously, but not themselves.” Organized by the HBS Club of India in collaboration with the HBS India Research Center, the event was held in Mumbai on April 29, 2024, and attended by over 45 guests.
  • APRIL 2024
  • ALUMNI EVENT

Interactive Event with Professor Dennis Campbell

HBS Professor Dennis Campbell addressed alumni during an interactive lecture on ‘AI Innovation for Real-World Operations.’ He highlighted companies outside the tech industry that developed and deployed AI capabilities for customer relationship management, supply chain and manufacturing operations, human capital management, and product development. The event, organized by the HBS Club of India and supported by the HBS India Research Center, was held in Mumbai on April 24, 2023. Over 40 participants attended.
  • APRIL 2024
  • ALUMNI EVENT

Alumni Case Discussion with Professor V.G. Narayanan

On April 17, 2024, the India Research Center (IRC) organized a case discussion on Leading Transformation at IHCL with Professor V.G. Narayanan. It was organized by HBS Executive Education, HBS Club of India, in partnership with the HBS India Research Center. More than 100 participants attended the event, which was an insightful discussion on the sources of IHCL’s competitive advantage. Participants debated the steps it should take to remain the leader in the hospitality industry. The discussion was followed by a networking event that was an opportunity to catch up with fellow alumni and business leaders from South Asia.
  • MARCH 2024
  • EVENT

Interactive Event with Professor Willis M Emmons

Global educators converged for an interactive session on ‘AI in Teaching & Learning’ with HBS Professor Willis M Emmons. Hosted by the HBS India Research Center and Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) Education on March 12, 2024, in Mumbai, the session saw an exchange of ideas amongst 96 participants on the transformative effects of generative AI on teaching and learning methodologies.
  • JANUARY 2024
  • ALUMNI EVENT

Interactive Event with Professor Gunnar Trumbull

Alumni relived their HBS days during a case discussion on ‘ReNew Power - Leading the Energy Transition in India’ with Professor Gunnar Trumbull. The event was organized by the HBS Club of India in partnership with the HBS India Research Center on January 15, 2024, in Mumbai. It was a lively discussion on the company’s strategic choices in diversifying its renewable energy offerings. The event, attended by 65 participants, concluded with a networking gathering.
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  • April 2024 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight Loss Drugs

By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of safe, effective weight loss. As demand in the U.S. reached a fever pitch, Novo faced opportunities and challenges. The case covers the markets in which Novo could expand, the manufacturing shortfalls it faced, the competition that was expected to arise, and the moral issues that came with selling a product that affected so many people worldwide.

  • Spring 2024
  • Article
  • Daedalus

One Aspirational Future for India’s Higher Education Sector

By: Tarun Khanna

Several recent encouraging experiments in Indian higher education suggest a plausible aspirational path toward a more salubrious future than that suggested by an otherwise struggling system. Four case studies of privately conceived and funded universities each exhibit a novel model of collective philanthropy. Typically, each case features multiple entrepreneurs with self-created “new” wealth, often with exposure to Western liberal arts educations, sharing in the university’s governance. The university is not hostage to the vagaries of a single family’s preferences. Encouragingly, each experiment here has built on its predecessors, and an entrepreneurial ecosystem has emerged that has privileged pedagogical excellence. However, formal research still lags. It remains to be seen whether the latter lacunae can be remedied without concerted public funding that is the norm in Western educational landscapes.

  • March 2024
  • Case

ixigo

By: Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani

Ixigo is India’s second-largest online travel aggregator (OTA) and the market leader among private train OTAs. It has overcome numerous near-death crises to emerge as a customer-centric, profitable firm. It aspires to become the leading OTA in the next billion Internet user segment; to reach this goal it has launched an initial public offering. The founders must now decide how to grow their market share while meeting the profitability constraints imposed by public markets.

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