Courses & Events
Rise of Entrepreneurship in India
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
04:30 pm - 05:50 pm
The ecosystem for entrepreneurship has been exploding in India with a number of IPOs, huge M&A deals, increases in domestic venture capital, and increasing interest by foreign VCs. Join us for a discussion with Dr. Amit Kapoor who will be providing insights into the current and future entrepreneurial climate in India.
Details
Seminars will take place on Tuesdays from March 30th – May 25th. These sessions are open to the public and registration is required to receive the Zoom login details.
All seminars will be held online via Zoom, 4:30 PM – 5:50 PM, with informal networking following until about 6:30 PM (PST). REGISTER below for the entire series*.
Register in advance for this seminar series:
https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqf-iorD0pH9bI5FVk0i9e6aM_hR7JLQ3J
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*You may cancel your registration at any time and attend only the sessions you wish.
Speakers
Dr. Amit Kapoor
Chair, Institute for Competitiveness, India
Amit Kapoor, PhD, is Honorary Chairman at Institute for Competitiveness, India; Visiting Scholar at Stanford University; President of India Council on Competitiveness and Editor-in-Chief of Thinkers. He is the chair for the Social Progress Imperative & Shared Value Initiative in India. He is an affiliate faculty for the Microeconomics of Competitiveness & Value Based Health Care Delivery courses of Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School and an instructor with Harvard Business Publishing in the area of Strategy, Competitiveness and Business Models.
He has been inducted into the Competitiveness Hall of Fame which is administered by Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School in addition to being the recipient of the Ruth Greene Memorial Award winner for writing the best case of the year, by North American Case Research Association (NACRA).
Amit is the author of bestsellers “Riding the Tiger”, which he has co-authored with Wilfried Aulber and “The Age of Awakening: The Story of the Indian Economy Since Independence” published by Penguin Random House.
He has worked with NITI Aayog, Indian Prime Minister’s Think Tank, on developing the Ease of Living index for Indian districts (this drives the achievement of Ease of Living across Indian states and districts); Innovation Index for States of India; Police Effectiveness Index and has recently presented his work on cluster mapping in India to Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister.
In the last few years he has delved significantly to understand the democratic upheavals the world is seeing with keynotes at important international gatherings in Washington DC, London, Toronto and Iceland. His body of work includes election prediction model, essays on democracy and producing documentaries on democratic shifts in countries like India, USA, UK and Brazil.
As for his interest in entrepreneurship, he is a keen investor and has seed funded enterprises like Mettl, SoulAce, Devtron Labs et al.
