Category : News
Sep 1, 2016 | Community, Faculty, Fellows, News, Students
Meet SAI’s fellows and faculty, learn about funding opportunities, and get to know Harvard’s South Asia student groups.
Sep 1, 2016 | News
“This study abroad program allowed me to connect more with how I identify myself,” writes Ajay Singh, Harvard College ’18, who spent his summer studying Punjabi at the American Institute of Indian Studies in Chandigarh with support from a SAI grant.
Aug 31, 2016 | Community, Faculty, India, News
By Anisha Gopi, Project Manager On July 28th 2016, the Harvard University South Asia Institute (SAI) and Tata Trusts hosted the third webinar of a multi-part series on Women’s Empowerment. The webinar, titled ‘Working with Boys and Men to Prevent Gender Based...
Aug 31, 2016 | News
Several years ago, Tarun Khanna, SAI Director and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, was exploring the streets of Jakarta, the hot and steamy capital of Indonesia. In need of an ice pack to keep some medication cool, he was baffled by the...
Aug 30, 2016 | Faculty, News, Students
On Wednesday, August 31, the innovative SAI platform course SW47: Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems began. Over 80 students, a combination of undergraduates and graduate students, “shopped” the...
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 | Alumni, Community, Nepal
On July 29, Meena Hewett, Executive Director of SAI, visited the monthly meeting of the Harvard Alumni Group in Nepal to learn more how SAI can engage more with the country. She began by sharing the mission of SAI, saying that SAI has been working with Harvard...
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 15, 2016 | Community, Fellows, News
While on campus, fellows will actively participate in the events and intellectual life of the Institute.
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.