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Tag: Tarun Khanna
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Entrepreneurial approach to space exploration
Business professor, South Asia specialist Tarun Khanna explains how relatively poor India with underfunded research and development became first to land a rover on an unexplored part of the moon.
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Injecting sense of urgency on Pakistan relief
Harvard students mobilize to provide relief in Pakistan.
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Amid pandemic tragedy, an opportunity for change?
The Harvard chairs of a new Lancet commission studying universal health care in India say the coronavirus’ impact there has created a moment of opportunity for change.
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Rising to the challenge
MacLean Sarbah, M.A. ’19, hopes to return home to help take on one of Ghana’s biggest social problems: youth unemployment.
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Getting to the why of British India’s bloody Partition
Harvard’s South Asia Institute is examining the history and ramifications of the violent Partition of British India in 1947 into what would eventually become India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
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Strengthening Harvard’s ties to South Asia
Lakshmi Mittal and his family announced a $25 million gift to establish an endowed fund for the South Asia Institute. The center will be renamed the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University.
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Innovation and immersion overseas
Grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences are helping faculty members plan and develop a suite of new study-abroad experiences for students.
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A powerful convergence
Harvard faculty members from several disciplines gathered to share thoughts about their work at the 2013 Kumbh Mela religious festival in India.
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Shaping problem-solvers
A Gen Ed course linked to the South Asia Institute takes an interdisciplinary approach to the region’s challenges.
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HarvardX course closes in on global view
During a talk at the Harvard Allston Education Portal, Professor Tarun Khanna explored the benefits of interdisciplinary problem-solving on health care, based on his HarvardX course “Entrepreneurship and Healthcare in Emerging Economies,” launching on Oct. 30.
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SAI offers ‘feet on the street’ experience
Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Institute has continued the long tradition of collaboration between Harvard and South Asia.
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Lessons of a temporary city
The Maha Kumbh Mela, India’s massive gathering of Hindu pilgrims, ended in March. But for Harvard researchers across disciplines, the festival and the tent city it spawned continue to yield lessons in everything from big data to urban planning.
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Among millions, a blank slate
The Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious gathering, spawns a city of millions virtually overnight — and with it, a thriving ecosystem of commerce large-scale and small. Harvard Business School researchers traveled to India to search for the festival’s unlikely lessons in infrastructure, governance, and informal networks.
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Piecing the parts together
An undergraduate suggests that, when it comes to innovation, there is no place better than Harvard to start work on an important initiative, since the University combines entrepreneurship, leadership, and knowledge-sharing into a coherent whole.
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Next step for South Asia Initiative
In response to the South Asia Initiative’s demonstrated commitment to the advancement of South Asian studies and programs, the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost at Harvard have formally renamed it the South Asia Institute at Harvard University.
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SAI offers grants for research, language study
Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Initiative continues the long tradition of collaboration between Harvard and South Asia. Learning from South Asia and contributing to its development have become vital given the salience of the region in contemporary times.
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India, front and center
Harvard is increasing its engagement in India and surrounding South Asian nations in an effort to better understand a part of the world that is growing in global importance. Harvard President Drew Faust visits India this month.
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An adviser for global strategy
Harvard President Drew Faust names Krishna G. Palepu, Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for international development at Harvard Business School, to the new post of senior adviser to the president for global strategy.
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South Asia Initiative
Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Initiative continues the long tradition of collaboration between Harvard and South Asia’s nations.
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Challenges, solutions for South Asia
A two-day symposium on the future of South Asia examined several key challenges facing the region, as well as solutions on issues ranging from climate change to population control.
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Khanna to head South Asia Initiative
The South Asia Initiative welcomed Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, as its new director.
