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Talk of the coming “second machine age” seems to be all the rage. Machines will “man” factories, assist the aged, drive cars, drop bombs and packages and can help us with Internet shoppin...
BA (Hons) in Economics, Delhi Univ.; MA, Delhi School of Economics; PhD in Economics and Univ. Fellow, Univ. of Rochester. More than 25 years as consultant and educator. Formerly: Partner, McKinsey & Co. and Leader, Innovation and Global Forces practices and Member, Knowledge Services Cttee; Faculty, Harvard Business School and Harvard Univ. Center for the Environment; Distinguished Scholar, MIT Legatum Center for Dev. and Entrepreneurship; Partner and Thought Leader, Monitor Group; Faculty, Bellcore, Univ. of Illinois; Officer, TAS. Currently, Senior Associate Dean, Int'l Business and Finance, The Fletcher School, Tufts Univ.; Founding Exec. Director, Institute for Business in the Global Context; Professor of Practice. Author: The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World; over 70 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, newspaper articles and op-eds, book chapters and HBS case studies.
Talk of the coming “second machine age” seems to be all the rage. Machines will “man” factories, assist the aged, drive cars, drop bombs and packages and can help us with Internet shoppin...
Winning over Indian consumers seems to officially have become one of the global tech industry’s Next Big Things. Some estimates indicate that there will be one billion users online in the...
When it comes to understanding the pace of global digital evolution, the digital growth of developed countries usually has little to tell us about the digital future of developing ones. T...
When four-month-old Lucy Boucher needed a kidney transplant, her 35-year-old father donated her a kidney. The transplant surgeons’ challenge was figuring out how to fit an adult kidney in...
The Swiss mountain town of Davos has gone quiet. About a fortnight ago, however, it was abuzz with talk of the fourth industrial revolution: Robots, 3D-printed human organs, driverless ca...