While India may provide tremendous growth opportunities , the strategies that an American corporation needs to deploy to succeed there have to be different from what we are used to here - the infrastructure is lacking, affordability continues to be an issue (despite the presence of aspiration), and finding the right people to drive strategy implementation continues to be a challenge. These were some of the messages that emerged yesterday at The Conference on India & Its Neighbors at the Harvard Business School . I was very impressed with the quality of the conference (speakers, panelists, and topics of discussion), and believe it or not, it was organized by the MBA students under the SABA umbrella. Here are some additional points that business leaders need to think about as they contemplate their India strategy: While BRIC countries often get clubbed together, I learned that India and China (China was also covered briefly during several panel discussions but I was surprised to lea...
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