Global Business

Listen to the host for the episode Paul Singh in discussions with Naeem Zafar to provide a perspective from a Startup CEO doing business globally and the challenges and opportunities he is facing. Also we will discuss entrepreneurship education and how it differs globally.

Listen to our host for the episode R. Paul Singh in discussions with Jessica Hasson about how the field of public relations has changed and how startups can use it to grow their business globally. Jessica runs her own PR agency, Pulp PR and has been doing PR for the last 20 years and offers some practical advice

In the age of the Internet, startups are born global and find customers everywhere irrespective of their origin country. In fact, most modern startups have their teams distributed across the world. So in this season, we are going to talk to entrepreneurs, executives, investors, and consultants who are part of startups going global.

Dr Johri from Oxford explains how to enhance your leadership and management skills to operate efficiently in today's fast evolving world and adjust to the environmental needs. How should the leaders navigate and be effective in these times. His efforts in this direction at OAMLP (Oxford advanced Management and Leadership Program) and guidance to global leaders from across the world has enabled the program to achieve Global Ranking of number 2 as per Financial Times.

Two prominent authors and intellectuals from Oxford discuss the impact of Kindness in Leadership. In a global climate of increasing complexity and uncertainty, there have been calls for a more responsible form of leadership in business and society. The relationship between kindness and leadership is therefore a topic of fundamental importance for our well-being as individuals, for the success of our organisations, and for the future of our global community. Kindness in Leadership is one of the first books to explore both the concept and practice of kindness in leadership and consider them in different societal and organisational settings.

Storytelling is suddenly a hot skill, but it wasn't so when our guest Sam Swaminathan started his leadership coaching journey with a card that read "Storyteller". In his two decades as coach, Sam has inspired more than 400,000 people in more than 20 countries that worked for giant corporations like Fedex, 3M, Infosys, Accenture and Unilever. Our guest host, Gaurav Rastogi, discusses how storytelling is an essential leadership skill, as it connects the head and the heart. Hard technical skills are not enough, and companies need Apostles, balladeers and tinkerers.

We have attention deficit. The weaponization of the "technologies of mass distraction" has destroyed our ability to focus. At the same time, our work requires us to bring more emotional energy, focus and creativity. The future human worker needs to learn skill-- the ability to do deep work, the ability to learn, and the ability to find and learn from challenges at work. How can Meditation and Yoga bring these two together? We discuss with Gaurav Rastogi.

Wall Street is used to companies setting and meeting expectations. But recently, all too often companies that play this fail-safe game have begun to fail. What is going on? This week in Global Business, Mahesh Joshi and Gaurav Rastogi are discussing A New Kind of Math, and how today's leaders should have the ability to build "belief" in a yet unseen future. This requires having the power to suspend skepticism. Just as algebra begins with "let there be an X such that"...today's leaders must have the ability to believe in a future that is different from today, in order to make that future happen. And so, despite failures like Theranos, we must learn to believe.

The future of work is continuous learning. How are the companies and employees computing their ROE, the Return on Education? We continue our discussion with Oxford's Prof Lalit Johri, and entrepreneur Gaurav Rastogi. We discuss, how educational institutions are adapting to the explosion in new learning technologies and methodologies, on the one hand, and to the need for a fast paced digestion of real-world learning needs on the other. Humanity's future depends on how well we transform the business of functional learning.

The term frontier markets was coined in 1992 by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and it referred to a subset of emerging markets. Subsequently, frontier indices was established by major providers like Standard & Poor's, MSCI, Russell Investments and FTSE. The number of frontier markets in these indices ranges from 25 in the MSCI index to 41 in the Russell Frontier Index. The criteria for inclusion, is that it should not already be a component of any emerging market or developed market indices. They must also qualify on parameters such as its economic development, market accessibility, liquidity and foreign investment restrictions. Will the frontier markets be able to challenge the BRIC's as the next growth opportunity with real economic development, or will they become yet another investment vehicle only for some time.