Amit Kapoor
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Dr. Amit Kapoor is Honorary Chairman at Institute for Competitiveness, studying firms, clusters and economies and is also a Professor of Strategy at Management Development Institute, 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. Dr. Kapoor’s doctoral work is in Industrial Economics and Business Strategy; he has received the Ruth Greene Memorial Award for writing the best case of the year, by North American Case Research Association (NACRA). He has been invited by Kennedy School of Government & Harvard Law School, Harvard University; World Economic Forum at its India Economic Summit and Asia Summit to present his views on various issues and themes like strategy, outsourcing and economic development. His research interest lies in the fields of Enhancing Competitiveness, Competitive Advantage and Leveraging Technology for Success.
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These are the main obstacles inhibiting healthcare access in India
These targets aim to address issues like health care access and help people lead healthy and produc…
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How is CSR Law driving the Corporates towards Shared Value Approach?
However, the majority of the countries address these challenges by relying on voluntary actions of …
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What is Shared Value Approach and Why it Matters?
Everybody realizes and acknowledges the significant contribution of these three schools of thought …
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Failing our children
Amidst all the celebratory din on the clearing of the GST bill, the Child Labour (Prohibition and R…
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Perils of overemphasis on GDP Growth?
The passage of the GST bill in Rajya Sabha recently made India come one step closer to making the d…
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No Funny Business
“These days humour can be a very risky thing.” In a very recent interview to Arnab Goswami, these w…
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World Progresses on Social Development
Social development as measured by the Social Progress Index (SPI), and developed by the Social Prog…
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India makes it to top 100 countries in Social Progress Index
In the recently released Social Progress Report for 2016 by the Social Progress Imperative, a non-p…
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Brexit and its Implications
First, why did the British people opt for an exit out of EU? It runs counter to the benefits free t…
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Is 'Smart City' just a concept?
The mission of ‘Developing 100 smart cities’ has come a long way from being just a manifesto promis…
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Licensing policy-HELP- is going to change the game in India's oil and gas sector
With the new policy being announced it is expected that this excessive dependence on oil and gas fr…
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Software Industry and its Intellectual Property
A lot of debate seems to be happening around the issue of open source collaborative platforms in so…
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India’s Development Strategy towards Social Progress and UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
There exists a considerable overlap between the recently adopted United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable D…
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Governments and Pricing
Two recent interventions brought to the fore the issues about pricing in an economy. The first of t…
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The Water Crisis and Criticality of Water Resource Management
The endowment of the freshwater resources varies across the world. In 2014, out of the total world …
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Considerations on the Rule of Law
The CJI Justice Thakur made an emotional appeal to the PM to look into the problems facing India re…
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The State of Indian Media
The past few weeks seem to reflect the reality of the Indian media and its relationship (if indeed …
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The Renaming Obsession
By any other name would smell as sweet." Asked Juliet one of Shakespeare's heroines- Well if you be…
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Four points about the India Rankings 2016 of the National Institutional Ranking Framework
There are five broad pillars which have various parameters for assessing and ranking institutions o…
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Cities, creativity and innovation are interlinked, here’s how
Another view for understanding why cities and their relationship to creativity are important is bec…
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Role of business education in India in creating managers and entrepreneurs
Nevertheless, in common parlance management and business education is treated synonymously. A cruci…
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Here are the options for bettering higher education in India
Lastly, a knowledge economy rests on its intellectual class as well as a fair, transparent and acco…
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Water crisis at our doorstep
Today the world stands at the cusp of water crisis and is struggling to manage its repercussions. T…
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‘Suresh Prabhu’s Rail Budget is pragmatic, technocratic and people-centric’
The Rail Budget 2016-17 presented in the Lok Sabha by Minister for Railways Shri Suresh Prabhu can …
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Here's how Bank of Japan’s recent monetary policy decision will work out
Two decades of stagnation and a high debt coupled with a need to boost demand has meant that the ta…