Centre for India & Global Business
The Centre for India & Global Business acts as a platform for research and engagement with key partners in industry, academia and policy in India, the UK and across the world. Its primary focus is to examine India’s current and future role in the global knowledge economy.
The Centre conducts research and engage with key partners in the following areas:
- The innovation activities of multinationals in India: how and why the world’s largest multinationals are increasingly locating their global R&D and innovation activities in India (and others countries like it)
- The internationalisation of Indian firms: how Indian firms (relative to firms from other emerging markets) are going global and moving up the value chain
- Co-innovation with the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid: how firms and other organisations are engaging those who live on less than $5 a day through innovative products, services and business models
The Centre was established in 2008 with financial support from the BP Foundation.
Think Change – India !
ThinkChange India is a leading source of information on social innovation and social entrepreneurship in India. TCI’s talented team of editors and bloggers bring you the latest news and analysis on India’s vibrant social change landscape.
Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme
The Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme for international students
The Tata Group, one of India’s largest private sector conglomerates, announced the Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme (TISES) for an international student internship programme with Tata Group’s community initiatives in India. The Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) each with the University of California, Berkeley, USA and the University of Cambridge, UK. The primary objective of TISES is to provide international students a chance to work in community initiative projects of the Tata Group in India and thereby promote international understanding.
Tata Second Career Internship Program for Women
- Begun in June 2008, Tata SCIP is a career transition management programme for professionals
- Tata SCIP is not a job. It is an intermediary programme aimed at developing alternative talent pools in traditional/non-traditional formats and facilitating career transitions
- Tata SCIP II, once again focuses on women professionals who have taken a career break but offers an extended opportunity in terms of professional categories
- Tata Group companies provide live business projects covering approx 500 hours engagement spread over 6 months on a flexi time basis
10,000 Women Entrepreneurs Certificate Programme
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Entrepreneurs Certificate Programme
Launched by Goldman Sachs, 10,000 Women is a global initiative that will increase the number of under-served women receiving a business and management education. This initiative is built on the premise that partnerships between education, development and business experts can help bring about significant change through improved business education for women.
Click here for the Application Form
Courtesy : Kersi Limathwalla / Jehangir Bisney
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How micro-finance institutions beat nationalized banks
S A Aiyar Sunday July 26, 2009 In his Budget speech, the FM hailed bank nationalization as visionary and revolutionary. Yet, nationalized banks have, by and large, not reached the poor. However, micro-finance is now reaching people whom nationalized banks could not.
Households getting micro-credit now outnumber poor households. Outstanding micro-finance loans total 80 million. Some borrowers have multiple loans, so net beneficiaries may total 60 million households. This is more than the 55 million poor households, and more than a quarter of India’s 220 million households.
Common mistakes entrepreneurs make
Starting up a company works better if you learn from the mistakes of others
Starting up a company is no picnic. Veterans go by the adage, if anything can go wrong, it will. Even if you have a world-beating product, people may just not take you very seriously or partner you.
IT Power for SMEs
bMighty: IT Power for Small and Midsize Business
bMighty.com is an online resource for small and midsize business and IT decision makers. We help smaller companies leverage technology to fight above their weight class and compete with bigger, better-financed contenders.
Unlike other sites, bMighty.com focuses full-time on the unique IT information needs of smaller businesses. We connect the dots between the technology and business problem you’re trying to solve, and we make it easier by filtering out consumer and enterprise content that isn’t relevant to your business.
More than that, we intend to become a vital part of the small and midsize business community. bMighty.com doesn’t just cover smaller companies; we celebrate them, advocate for them and try to empower them through technology. Our goal is to help smaller companies Be as Mighty as they can be.
That’s why bMighty.com is the only place to find:
- Bloggers who not only point out the most relevant news and information, but also explain why it matters to smaller companies
- The bMighty ANTenna, providing context and timely links to the latest news for smaller businesses from around the Web
- How-to technology advice, tips and tricks from a business solutions perspective
- Business content from a technology perspective, with whitepapers, business tools and directories
- Reviews analyzing the products, technologies and standards best suited for smaller companies
- Celebrations of real companies and leaders that have successfully used technology to beat the competition
- An exclusive Technology Service Provider Locator with more than 200,000 solution provider locations to help find the right vendor based on your location, industry, technology needs and company size
- A vibrant, participatory community where you can interact with bloggers, columnists, surveys and research, online forums, Webcasts and podcasts
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