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Jennifer Petriglieri is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and the author of Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive In Love and Work. Jennifer was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 New Thinker and Talent awards and named one of the world’s best 40 business school professors under 40 by Poets & Quants. Jennifer earned a PhD in Organisational Behaviour from INSEAD. She also holds an MBA from IMD, Switzerland, and a BSc in genetics from Nottingham University, UK. Prior to joining INSEAD, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Organisational Behavior at the Harvard Business School.

In this episode, Jennifer shares the changing dynamics of modern day relationships and offers design principles for couples to thrive in love and work. This is particularly important as people are marrying later, working longer and don't have many relatable role models when it comes to balancing work and personal life. Unlike popular media articles and other books that talk about celebrities and power couples, Dr. Jennifer Petriglieri's research reveals practical insights applicable to most of us.

Among other things, listen to this episode to appreciate the nuances of long-distance relationships, learn more about multi-cultural couples, mull over the impact of money on relationships and see whether it makes sense to be practical in matters of the heart.

Benjamin F. Jones is the Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship, a Professor of Strategy, and the faculty director of the Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative. An economist by training, Professor Jones studies the sources of economic growth in advanced economies, with an emphasis innovation, entrepreneurship, and scientific progress. He also studies global economic development, including the roles of education, climate, and national leadership in explaining the wealth and poverty of nations. His research has appeared in journals such as Science, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review, and has been profiled in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and The New Yorker.

A former Rhodes Scholar, Professor Jones served in 2010-2011 as the senior economist for macroeconomics for the White House Council of Economic Advisers and earlier served in the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Professor Jones is a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

UPSC is probably the world's most competitive examination. Athar Aamir Khan got All India Rank 2 in UPSC and serves as an IAS officer. He graduated from IIT Mandi and a pivotal conversation with his grandfather in the final year changed the course of his entire career.

This podcast is divided into three parts. In the first section, Athar shares about growing up in Kashmir, his school and journey to IIT. In the second section, he discusses how and why he prepared for UPSC and talks at length about best practices for preparing for the examination. In the last section, Athar talks about his work as a civil servant.

This podcast is essential content for anyone interested in preparing for the UPSC examination, getting more productive as a professional and also for understanding how policy making works in India.

Mihir Dalal is an long-form writer with Mint who recently wrote The Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story. In this Network Capital podcast, Mihir reflects on how and why he started working on the book, how he researched such a complex subject and how he balanced his demanding job at Mint with the rigors of writing a book.

In this Network Capital podcast, Ronnie Screwvala, the founder of Upgrad, discusses how to grapple with failure and reinvent oneself. He talks about the role of serendipity in his life and what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Ronnie is a first generation entrepreneur who failed his Bachelor of Commerce in college but that did not deter his intent to start up on his own at a time where there was no eco-system for PE Funding or bank debt to start ups. His first foray was Cable TV in India and for the first two years of that journey he found no takers and only advise to treat it as a failed start up and move on, but with him staying at it he was credited with having pioneered Cable TV for all of India.

Entrepreneurship is about finding and seizing opportunities and moving on from failures and Ronnie saw an opportunity in toothbrush manufacturing and after many setbacks went on to build one of the largest toothbrush operations in India. The other opportunity was TV Home Shopping but it was well before its time and was a big failure, but not enough for him to question if he should stick it out as an entrepreneur.

Ronnie went on to build a media and entertainment company – UTV, where post many pivots and four almost near bankruptcies and 15 years of focussed work with strong co-founders and a large team, it scaled to a size spanning all aspects of Content and Platform and then he divested UTV to The Walt Disney Co in 2012.

Perception in most cases is larger than reality and so in spite of so many failures, Newsweek termed him the Jack Warner of India, Esquire rated him one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century and Fortune as Asia’s 25 most powerful.

Having lived it and seen the misconception that it’s all about quick success and that failure is to frown on - he authored a book Dream With Your Eyes Open as his commitment to champion entrepreneurship and evangelize failure.

Ronnie got the term “cat with nine lives” attached to him by colleagues and peers for the number of times he had failed, but reflecting on his setbacks and counting on his main virtue that success can never be timed and staying the course is the only option, Ronnie in his second innings decided to deepen his commitment to making India a better place through a focus on two of the largest sunrise sectors - Online Education & the not for profit Rural/Social space. He is Co-Founder & Chairman of upGrad which zeros in on the massive Online Education market and the fact that Learning for every working professional is now a lifelong commitment. He, along with his wife Zarina, are the Co-Founders of The Swades Foundation, which is committed to empower one million lives in rural India every 5-7 years through a 360 degree model spanning Water, Sanitation, Health, Education and Livelihood to lift them out of poverty permanently.

As a hobby and passion Ronnie loves to tell stories that must to told via movies with his new brand RSVP and he owns 3 sports teams under the brand U Mumba in Kabaddi, Volleyball and Football even though he has never played any of the sports himself.

Dr Maha Hosain Aziz is an NYU professor (MA International Relations Program) and LSE fellow (Institute of Globe Affairs) focused on global risk & prediction. In this podcast, she shares how to build meaningful careers in international relations. Her points of view on the new global order bring to bare key questions on identity, politics and technology. Check out her new book - Future World Order - here http://www.futureworldorder.org/

Aditi Gupta is a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Menstrupedia, working towards spreading awareness about menstruation. While studying at the National Institute of Design, as a Ford Foundation research Scholar she has conducted extensive research in understanding the scenario of menstrual unawareness in India and its impact on a girl’s life. She has designed effective educational tools for girls and schools using storytelling and sequential art for educating young girls about periods in a society where the subject is a major taboo.

Aditi was named Forbes India 30 under 30, 2014 for her work towards breaking the taboo around menstruation. She is a TED speaker and also an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) alumni. Aditi was named as" Most Influential Women" by BW Business World Magazine.

Her work has been featured in TIME Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Channel 4 News, Forbes India, India Today, Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Femina Magazines. She is also a Global Shaper alumni at the World Economic Forum. Aditi aspires to create a future where menstruation is not a taboo but a welcoming change in a girl’s life.

In this podcast with the International Innovation Corps, we discuss what the unique fellowship entails, the experience of being an IIC fellow and how can you be a part of
the social impact fellowship in India. The International Innovation Corps (IIC) is a social impact program of the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy that operates out of the University of Chicago Trust in India. As an IIC Fellow, you will work directly with the government, address gaps in development policy and programs and hone your core competencies through mentorship and training sessions at the UChicago Center in Delhi.

This is a very special podcast with Harvard Business School alums, Shruti and Azeez. Both of them met each other through debating at IIT Delhi. They have been inspiring and supporting each other to push the contours of excellence and impact ever since.

Shruti is an entrepreneur launching Sair, a venture in the travel-tech and heritage space. She graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School and the Director's Gold Medal from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She worked at Bain and Omidyar Network before business school.

Azeez is the National Head of Strategic Initiatives at Pratham, one of India’s most reputed education non-profits impacting 5 million children annually. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and IIT Delhi, and was formerly a management consultant at McKinsey and Company. e was selected as Education Innovation Fellow at the Harvard Institute for Learning and Teaching, and nominated to the Social Enterprise Initiative Advisory Board at HBS. Azeez is a recipient of the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship for social entrepreneurship at HBS and was awarded institute prizes for all-round excellence at IIT-Delhi.

Bindi works as the Deputy Director with the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy at Ashoka University. Prior to that she worked with Tata Trusts leading their Grant Relationship Management and with the Piramal Foundation for Education Leadership as their program director for Technology. She graduated from Harvard Business School, with a focus in social enterprise. Her experience before HBS is with ArcelorMittal in the space of engineering and operations. She also has an engineering masters from the University of Michigan.