Category : Faculty
Aug 23, 2016 | Faculty, Students
This course will provide a framework (and multiple lenses) through which to think about the salient economic and social problems of the five billion people of the developing world, and to work in a team setting toward identifying entrepreneurial solutions to such problems.
Aug 23, 2016 | Bangladesh, Faculty, India
This short video looks at the role of business in responding to poverty, illiteracy and gender inequality in South Asia. It forms part of the on-going Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School directed by Professor Geoffrey Jones, which uses...
Aug 18, 2016 | Community, Faculty, News, Students
Harvard University will offer many courses with South Asia related content in the fall 2016 semester.
Aug 17, 2016 | Blog, Community, Faculty, India, News
In a webinar as part of the Livelihood Creation Project, Shantha Sinha, MV Foundation, and Jacqueline Bhabha, HSPH, HLS, HKS, discussed obstacles and challenges that girls face when pursuing education.
Aug 5, 2016 | Alumni, Community, Faculty, India, News, South Asia in the News
Speakers included Shri Akhilesh Yadav, Honorable Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Harvard faculty, and Kumbh administrators.
Jul 29, 2016 | Community, Faculty, India, News, South Asia in the News
Every year in India, thousands of children are trafficked across the country to work long hours in highly exploitative conditions. Thanks to the efforts of official agencies, a small proportion of these children are rescued and returned to their home states. However,...
Jul 29, 2016 | Community, Faculty, In Region, India
This article was published in The Times of India on July 23, 2016. ‘Complete ecosystem needed to foster startups’ BENGALURU: Despite being the start-up hub of the country, neither has Bengaluru nor any other state been able to achieve a complete entrepreneurial...
Jul 1, 2016 | Community, Faculty, News, Pakistan, South Asia in the News
Librarians at Harvard’s Widener Library have been working meticulously to process more than 22,000 volumes that have been acquired from Pakistan over the last 10 years.
Jul 1, 2016 | Faculty, India
This article appeared in Forbes India. The Start-up India campaign announced amid much fanfare on January 16 this year outlined the government’s resolve to enable entrepreneurship in India. A precursor to the big announcement, however, was the submission of a report...
Jun 23, 2016 | Faculty, India, News, Students
“The students’ experience changed their view of India and the developing world,” writes Ryan Draft, Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology, who brings Harvard students to India for a biological sciences summer abroad internship.
Jun 21, 2016 | Faculty, News, Pakistan
A study conducted by Asim Khwaja, Harvard Kennedy School, looked at how to strengthen the social compact between citizen and state – whereby a citizen pays taxes and receives public goods and services.
Jun 8, 2016 | Alumni, Bangladesh, Community, Faculty, Fellows, India, Nepal, News, Pakistan, Students
This has been a year of firsts for the Harvard South Asia Institute. Take a look back at the year with our Year in Review. Click here to view the publication.
