You may want to take a fresh look at business opportunities and investments in India, if a new World Bank report is to be believed. In November 2001, Goldman Sachs published a landmark paper where they identified India, along with Brazil, China, and Russia as the four “BRIC” economies that...
15-Year-Old in India Innovates “Green Wood”
Watching the mounds of grain chaff burning at her family’s farm in India’s northern city of Amritsar, the then 15-year-old Bisman Deu decided to research the pollution caused by this activity. “I started researching pollution,” she says, “then I researched the properties of rice husk; it has a high silica...
HP Takes Medical Services to Rural India
Hewlett Packard along with Narayana Health has been running cloud-enabled portable eHealth centers in rural India. These are built in shipping containers and placed in states such as Uttar Pradesh, where thousands of people are being given medical aid. These containers are easy to transport and are equipped to deliver...
Hewlett Packard and sales in India
HP has over 100,000 employees in India serving American and global needs. But it also has a vibrant India business. Here are excerpts from an interview of Neelam Dhawan, head of Hewlett Packard's personal computer business in India. From a business perspective, what is working for HP in India? India...
How Dell Computer Became the Market Leader in India
According to CNN'S FortuneTech, before Dell Computers' success, India’s computer market was ruled by Hewlett-Packard and Chinese computer maker Lenovo. HP arrived in 1989 when its only competition was IBM. Both HP and Lenovo had factories in India, and their products were available off the shelf through a vast retail...
IT employs 2.8 million Indians today and expects revenues of $225 billion by 2012
My friend Som Mittal used to run Hewlett Packard's India operations from Bangalore. Upon "retirement" he took over as the President of India's National Association of Software and Service Companies or Nasscom and moved to New Delhi. Som was three years ahead of me in undergraduate school and I've met...