The world’s least priced car, the Tata Nano, can now be purchased through a credit card in India. Tata Motors has allied with select credit card companies to finance the purchase of the Nano. Indeed, a person who buys the Nano through the credit card route can convert the purchase...
Stylish Tata Nano is now a Museum Exhibit at Cornell
An innovative car from India that costs just $2,500 is now the star of a museum exhibition at an Ivy League school. It most countries, you may be excused from thinking this a crazy notion. And it wouldn’t generally work unless there’s something special on offer. Which in this case...
BMW starts production of 5 Series luxury cars in India
There is a market for any product at any price in India. Most stories in the West have focused on the Tata Nano, the lowest cost car in the world, and while other low cost cars such as the Suzuki's Maruti line, entries from Hyundai, Renault, and even GM/Ford are...
The next Big Wave: Innovation, Research and Development
I write for Business Week from time to time and this week, Dr. Atul Goel and I wrote a piece entitled: Innovation from India, the next Big Wave. It took them some time to publish the piece, but in many ways it is even more relevant now than when we...