Ethiopia is Africa’s new growth engine – here’s why
Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent country and its fastest growing economy today. With a population of over 100 million and an annual economic growth rate of 10% over the past 15 yea...
Vijay was previously, Head of Partnerships and Deputy Head of the Global Shapers Community. Prior to joining the Forum, Vijay was an Innovation & Growth Strategy Consultant with Innosight, co-founded by Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School, where he was part of business model innovation efforts for Fortune 500 companies in IT/software, medical devices and consumer goods industries. Before that, he worked as a Venture Director with Innosight Ventures where he incubated several disruptive businesses at the BoP in India including the Edison Award winning ‘Healthy Heart for All’ for Medtronic. His work is mentioned in books like Lean Startup, The First Mile and Little Black Book of Innovation. Vijay started his career in the computer animation industry in India and Silicon Valley. He was the Technical Director and Project Head of Pet Alien, one of India’s first 3D animation projects that was aired in Cartoon Network worldwide. Vijay has an MBA from the International University of Japan, where he received the Monbukagakhusho Scholarship from the Ministry of Education (MEXT), Japan and Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering including a ‘Ship for World Youth’ fellowship from the Government of Japan. Vijay is also a Global Leadership Fellow at the Forum. Vijay is a regular contributor in Huffington Post, WEForum Agenda, Real Leaders, Strategy & Innovation, Al Arabiya English and Linkedin Pulse. You can watch his TEDx talk on 'Leadership as a space' here: http://bit.ly/1pqtB6I
Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent country and its fastest growing economy today. With a population of over 100 million and an annual economic growth rate of 10% over the past 15 yea...
Poland is one of the world’s most impressive growth stories. In September 2018, Poland was officially declared the first country from the former Soviet bloc to reach developed market stat...
在脸书和剑桥分析身陷争议之后,数据处理公司的压力陡增。这些科技公司迫切需要带来更卓越的商业和消费者服务。除了社交媒体网络,处于数字化转型中的任何公司都面临着同样的问题,包括那些利用无人机、人工智能、无人驾驶汽车等新型科技和平台的公司。
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On the face of it, artificial intelligence (AI) involves a straightforward proposition: let’s have computers perform tasks usually reserved for humans in the hope that they can be perform...
When we talk about gender equality, the conversation naturally steers towards the workplace and how women should receive the same pay as men. The Global Shapers Annual Survey 2016 also va...
The horrific rape and murder of a young woman in Kerala is the latest among the many violent, sexual crimes against women in recent years in India. The data from the National Crime Record...
Joseph Schumpeter coined the phrase ‘Creative Destruction,’ the premise in which new innovations destroy established enterprises and create new markets. Clayton Christensen, coined the te...
Recently, I ran a mini-survey with my friends in South Asia asking what a 24-hour day looked like for their children.