Course Objectives

•Understanding and identifying the causes and consequences of entrepreneurship in one of the fastest growing large economies in the world today

•Understanding India as geopolitically salient and a petri-dish for entrepreneurship for the Global South.

•Integrative course that brings together ideas from BGIE, FIN, EM, STRAT, LEAD

Logistics

•Fall 2023, Q2

•Leveraging protagonists’ live participation

•14 sessions + project/paper

Course Content and Organization:

Modules

Institutional foundations

Example: Entrepreneurs respond to and compensate for so-called ‘institutional voids’, characteristics of fast-growing emerging markets. That’s the source of dynamism.

Example: Digital public goods & the reimagination of a 21st century national technological backbone differently from the US or China. Why does India rank #1 in the per capita use of data in the world?

Public and Social Entrepreneurship

Example: Why do the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, dairy cooperative, and literary festival originate in India? What about the second most lucrative sports franchise per match in the world (India Premier League, right after the NBA)?

Private Entrepreneurship

Example: Biologics

Space (Mars mission/ Cubesats)

Green energy