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In this podcast, you will learn -  1. Cultural  and geographic in trends higher education. 2. The role of trust in the ETS exam process 3. Business School Advisory Council in India & GRE in Indian colleges Alberto Acereda is the Associate Vice President of Global Higher Education at Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, NJ. He has overall responsibility for the ETS Assessme...

Manu S Pillai is the author of the critically acclaimed The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore (2015) and Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji (2018). Formerly chief of staff to Shashi Tharoor MP, he is also a winner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar (2017). His other essays and writings have appeared in Mint Lounge, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Open M...

In this episode you will learn the following: 1. The importance of conducting micro-experiments towards shaping a meaningful career 2. The art of being a contrarian 3. The power of multi-disciplinary learning and clear thinking An author, politician, and former international civil servant, Shashi Tharoor straddles several worlds of experience. Currently a third-term Lok Sabha MP representing the T...

Anirudh Suri is a venture capitalist, technology entrepreneur and policy advisor. He is the managing partner of India Internet Fund, a US and India-based technology venture capital fund, and author of  The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations  (HarperCollins, 2022). Previously, he worked with the Government of India in Delhi, McKinsey and Co. in New York, the...

In this episode you will learn - 1. Principles of building communities by combining design, storytelling and empathy 2. The core purpose of architecture 3. Unpacking traditions and fusing with modern architectural constructs Priyamwada Singh, founder of common Ground practice, a New Delhi India based firm, believes that Architecture and Design are a medium to create an equitable society. Some of h...

In this episode you will learn - 1. Emotional, psychological and financial cost of being diagnosed with cancer 2. Principles of building a community  of cancer survivors and caregivers 3. Processing suffering and becoming anti-fragile Samira is an entrepreneur working at the intersection of design, healthcare and technology. Using the power of human-centered design, she is tackling one of the...

In this podcast you will learn -  1. The art of meaningful career transitions.  2. How to become a dreamer and a doer. 3. Frameworks of ‘zooming in & zooming out’.  4. The importance of nurturing talent and empowering new leaders.  5. Insights on multi-generational leadership in managing work, home and society. Indra K. Nooyi served as CEO and chairman of PepsiCo from 2006...

What do you do when you are rejected for your dream job and can’t deal with one more person telling you to be strong? What stops you from asking for that big role at work when you know you have a shot at getting it? For most of us, the world of work isn’t easy to navigate and life’s challenges rarely have simple answers. In this book, Radhika Gupta, the only female head of a major asset management...

Sanjiv Saraf is the founder, Chairman and principal shareholder of Polyplex Corporation Limited, which is among the world’s largest producers of PET films. Sanjiv is an alumnus of The Scindia School and a graduate from IIT, Kharagpur (1980). After completing his graduation, he joined his family business in Orissa. In 1984, he ventured out on his own to establish Polyplex. Sanjiv has built an outst...

Black-swan events, global warming, COVID-19 and a host of other natural and man-made disasters have tested the resilience of businesses across the world. Usually, blame for business failures is apportioned to external factors such as adverse business cycles, badly framed government regulations and lack of infrastructure. However, the causes often lie within -- short-term thinking, destruction of n...

Mridula Ramesh  is the founder of the Sundaram Climate Institute, which focuses on waste and water solutions and education. She is a leading cleantech angel investor, with a portfolio of over fifteen start-ups, and is involved in multiple initiatives to build climate entrepreneurship. The author of the critically acclaimed  The Climate Solution: India’s Climate Change Cris...

Key lessons:  Fundamentals of building a decentralized, user-owned network Unbundling of work from employment and emerging trends in the future of work  Bridging the talent-opportunity gap in the web 3.0 era Adam Jackson is the Co-founder of Braintrust, the first user-controlled talent network that provides enterprises with the highly skilled technical and design talent they need. Prior...

In Leadership to Last , Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview iconic leaders in India who have demonstrated leadership to last. There are leaders from South Asia and other emerging markets as well to illustrate that the ideas Indian entrepreneurs speak about are echoed by their counterparts in the Global South. All these magnates--Ratan Tata, Anu Aga, Adi Godrej, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Devi Shet...

Dr. Christian Busch is an internationally known expert in the areas of innovation, purpose-driven leadership, and serendipity. He is the director of the CGA Global Economy Programme at New York University (NYU), and also teaches at the London School of Economics (LSE). A cofounder of Leaders on Purpose and the Sandbox Network - and a former director of LSE's Innovation Lab - he has worked with sen...

Ravi Venkatesan is a business leader, writer and social entrepreneur. He is the Chairman of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) and UNICEF's Special Representative for Young People and Innovation. Ravi is also the founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and serves on the boards of Hitachi Ltd and Rockefeller Foundation. Ravi has served as the chairman o...

Aarti and Aditya fell in love with water lily pops all the way back in school. This love for the snack followed them into college. The husband-and-wife team shared their ‘pop’ romance with their friends, classmates, and professors too. They’d pop ‘em at home and share the little goodies on campus. This was the start of it all. ​They were onto something… They started small. They kept it simple. Sal...

Neel Ghose is the founder of the the Robin Hood Army, (RHA) a volunteer organization which redistributes surplus food to the less fortunate. With a zero funds policy, the team has served meals to 83.9 million people across 255 cities through a family of Robins across the world - the RHA is now a Harvard case study. From a work front, Neel manages partnerships for Google Pay, he previously launched...

Devi Lockwood is the Ideas editor at Rest of World and the author of 1,001 VOICES ON CLIMATE CHANGE, a book published by Simon & Schuster (Tiller Press) on August 24, 2021. Previously she worked as an editor and writer at the New York Times Opinion section. She spent five years traveling in 20 countries on six continents to document 1,001 stories on water & climate change. As a 2018 Nation...

Based in Los Angeles and a native of New York City, Kiran Gandhi, aka Madame Gandhi, is a singer, percussionist, activist and music industry thinker known for her electronic-based sound and fourth-wave feminist perspective. She began working under the stage name Madame Gandhi in 2015, while Alexia Riner — a Berklee College of Music graduate in sound design — became a key contributor to the project...

India’s maharajahs have traditionally been cast as petty despots, consumed by lust and luxury. Bejewelled parasites, they cared more, we are told, for elephants and palaces than for schools and public works. The British cheerfully circulated the idea that brown royalty needed ‘enlightened’ white hands to guide it, and by the twentieth century many Indians too bought into the stereotype, viewing pr...

In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the jobs, desires, prayers, love affairs and rivalries--of a diverse group of women. Divided by class but united in fandom, they remain steadfast in their search for intimacy, independence and fun. Embracing Hindi film idol Shah Rukh Khan allows them a small respite from an oppressive culture, a fillip to...

Niel backs exceptional young entrepreneurs to find, buy & build enduring small to medium businesses globally as co-founder of Ambit Partners , a specialised Search Fund investor. He is a guest lecturer in Entrepreneurship-via-Acquisition at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business, has worked and studied in South Africa, France, Singapore and the United Kingdom, and is a membe...

In this podcast, we cover -  The art & science of designing for profitability Insights on scaling yourself through words Lessons in chasing personal passions for professional success This is Sahil -  "It was 2011, and I was on top of the world. I was a 19-year-old solo founder with millions in the bank. At first, everything was great. We grew the team. We stayed focused on our produc...

Pride, Prejudice, and Punditry brings together the very best fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from his published books and journalism—as well as many pieces that have been written specially for this volume. There are ten sections in the book, each devoted to a particular topic. ‘In the Company of Giants’ looks at some of the most important figures of modern Indian history; ‘Into the Maelstrom of I...

Aditya Ghosh is a seasoned business leader with over 22 years of experience. Aditya currently sits on the Board of Directors of Fabindia - India’s largest retail platform; and OYO, one of the world’s leading hospitality chains with presence across 80 countries. Most recently, he was the CEO at OYO Hotels & Homes- India & South Asia. Prior to this, Aditya was the President & Member of t...