Fall South Asia Courses
Islamic Civilizations 178, Culture and Belief 60, South Asian Studies 199, and more.
Category : News
‘Contextual Intelligence’ by Tarun Khanna
Harvard Business Review, September 2014
Experimental course on Contemporary South Asia kicks off its fourth year
‘Contemporary South Asia: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems,’ taught by Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School is now entering its fourth year.
‘Hidden curriculum’ by Mariam Chughtai
Mariam Chughtai is an Ed.D. Candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Education and former SAI intern.
Preventing gender based violence
On August 26 and 27, leaders and academics from both the US and India gathered to explore how gender violence in South Asia can be prevented in a workshop hosted by SAI and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Exploring the potential of mobile technology
On Thursday, August 28, SAI traveled to the West Coast for its second event in its San Francisco Series, which brings Harvard faculty to California for events on a variety of topics related to South Asia. A group of Harvard alums and SAI supporters gathered in Palo...
SAI Summer Blog
Take a look at what Harvard students in South Asia were up to this summer on SAI’s Summer Blog.
Update from Rabtt: Summer Report 2014
Rabtt was awarded a SAI Omidyar Grant for Entrepreneurship in 2013, an award given to students who wish to pursue projects that provide entrepreneurial solutions to social and economic problems in South Asia. The grant was awarded to: Saniya Ansar, Harvard Kennedy...
Tarun Khanna discusses emerging economies in Dhaka
Tarun Khanna, Director, SAI, and Jorge Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School, delivered a talk on August 19, 2014 titled “Developing an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Emerging Economies”. The talk was given at BRAC Centre, Mohakhali on Tuesday to an audience of renowned Bangladeshi entrepreneurs, academics and corporate managers.
‘The bright side of Pakistan’ – Harvard Gazette
The South Asia Institute was featured in a story in the Harvard Gazette, published on March 14, 2014. The story profiles SAI’s growing involvement in Pakistan, and the Contemporary South Asian City Conference in Karachi in January.
Fall Course: Contemporary South Asia: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems
The primary objective of this course is to engage students with the modern day challenges affecting South Asia, and to examine a range of entrepreneurial attempts to solve these problems. The course focuses on several categories of social and economic problems faced by the countries of South Asia, with specific focus on the realms of Education, Health, Financial Inclusion, and Urbanization.
Tarun Khanna leads discussion on mobile technology in Bangalore
On August 13th, Tarun Khanna, Director of the South Asia Institute and the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, led a discussion on“Mobile Technology: Spurring Social and Economic Enterprise in South Asia,” during his visit to Bangalore. The...