Tarun Khanna, Professor at Harvard Business School, argues that the old equation that government = inefficient does not hold unilaterally but depends on the context. To illustrate, Khanna describes the evolution of the Communist Party of China and its efforts to co-opt entrepreneurs so that now ...
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Tarun Khanna, Professor at Harvard Business School, highlights the ability of entrepreneurs to provide solutions to social problems by telling the story of a cardiac hospital in India. Khanna points out that the founder, a cardiac surgeon and entrepreneur, has been able to achieve incredible res...
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Tarun Khanna, Professor at Harvard Business School, summarizes insights from one of his books by comparing private and public rights in India and China. Khanna argues that in India, private rights are favored over the public interest whereas in China the opposite is true. These tradeoffs affect ...
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Another response is through the private sector which is the only part of India that really works. The private sector and civil society work, the government tends not to work. And the private sector has come up with some spectacular responses. This is a very, very close friend of mine, a spectacu...
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Tarun Khanna, Professor at Harvard Business School, speaks about the incredible change in aspirations among young people in India. Whereas in the past young people aspired to become government officials, today they aspire to become entrepreneurs and lift themselves out of poverty by their own ac...
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The point I try to make in this book is that the equation of government is inefficient is inappropriate: it depends on the context. In this context (China) it is turning out now that membership in the Communist Party of China, the one country in the world that you can’t imagine a less communist ...
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What’s really heartening to me is that in the last 10 years ... There is a simple experiment that some social scientists in New Delhi have been doing. They have been wandering around asking young kids in India, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" A simple question like that and I think th...
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The point that I was making earlier, faced with the choice between private interests and public rights, China will always chose in the interest of public rights to the detriment of the indigenous population but to the advantage of people in this room and to me because you get to go to a modern C...
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