Dr. Tarun Khanna from Harvard Business School to Keynote at the Conference

We are glad to announce that Dr. Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, will be a keynote speaker at the NetIP Conference on Saturday, 30th August.
Dr. Khanna works with entrepreneurs, companies and NGOs in emerging markets worldwide. In 2007, he was elected a Young Global Leader (under 40) by the World Economic Forum.

Dr. Khanna has served as course head of the required Strategy course in the Harvard MBA program, and chaired the executive education program on Strategy, Leadership & Governance. Currently, he teaches in Harvard’s comprehensive general management executive education programs. His current research focuses on understanding the drivers of entrepreneurship worldwide. As part of the Emerging Giants project, he seeks to understand how to build world-class companies from emerging markets worldwide.

Professor Khanna’s work has been profiled in news-magazines around the world, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and newspapers in China, India, and elsewhere in Asia and Latin America. He has been a frequent commentator on ‘Competing in, and from, China and India’ and ‘Building the Developing country Multinational’ on several TV and radio programs recently (NPR, BBC, CNN, CNBC, Voice of America, Bloomberg and local channels).

In his recently published book Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours, Professor Khanna explores the likely evolution of the Chinese and Indian models and the implications for the world.

China, India, and Your Future

China and India are home to one-third of the world's population. And they're undergoing social and economic revolutions that are capturing the best minds and money of Western business. In Billions of Entrepreneurs, Tarun Khanna examines the entrepreneurial forces driving China's and India's trajectories of development. He shows where these trajectories overlap and complement one another--and where they diverge and compete. He also reveals how Western companies can participate in this development.

Through intriguing comparisons, the author probes important differences between China and India in areas such as information and transparency, the roles of capital markets and talent, public and private property rights, social constraints on market forces, attitudes toward expatriates abroad and foreigners at home, entrepreneurial and corporate opportunities, and the importance of urban and rural communities. He explains how these differences will influence China's and India's future development, what the two countries can learn from each other, and how they will ultimately reshape business, politics, and society in the world around them.

Engaging and incisive, this book is a critical resource for anyone working in China or India or planning to do business in these two countries.