Tarun Khanna

The writer is Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School, and director, South Asia Institute, Harvard University, US

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Tinkering Laboratories — Niti Aayog-promoted open-innovation workspaces in high schools — has the potential to ignite entrepreneurship from below

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The proposed National e-Health Authority, which will oversee digitisation of health information, could launch a digital health revolution in India. But safeguards need to be in place to protect patients’ privacy.

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Risk taking, experimentation and teamwork must also infect government machinery.

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Fail and pass: Why Modi must take a cue from Li’s rhetoricSubscriber Only

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Acceptance of failure must accompany all risk-taking and entrepreneurship. It is generally absent in India.

Tue, Oct 06, 2015

Beware the hierarchySubscriber Only

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Thu, May 07, 2015

If Ebola comes to IndiaSubscriber Only

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The current Indian government strategy focuses primarily on government hospitals to contain and manage Ebola

Mon, Nov 17, 2014