Managing and Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India
Course Number 1295
14 Sessions
Paper
(with Vikram Gandhi and John Kim)
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 in the world (India Premier League, right after the NBA)?
Private Entrepreneurship
Example: Biologics
Space (Mars mission/ Cubesats)
Green energy
2. Tie keyword portfolio strategy into budgeting forecasts
3. Map SEM to the customer journey