Page 6 - Ajit Balakrishnan

Ajit Balakrishnan: Forecasting media's future

Some lessons from the last time people talked of 'convergence' - the mid-1990s

Ajit Balakrishnan: Internet law - skirmishes ahead

As the new ecommerce paradigm works its way through multiple sectors of the economy it is likely to encounter legal challenges

Ajit Balakrishnan: California dreaming

Silicon Valley is at the heart of the transformation of the global economy - which has both winners and losers

Ajit Balakrishnan: Changing the lives of others

A new book that may help get corporate social responsibility right

Ajit Balakrishnan: Take visual literacy seriously

Students' flagging interest in the written word is because of a generational digital divide

Ajit Balakrishnan: Talking about income inequality

Unlike in the West, in India we do not see income inequality and all its ramifications as a topic worth debating

Ajit Balakrishnan: Tax Games - chasing money & power

Analysis of the political economy of taxation can be as entertaining as an IPL cricket match and as naked a pursuit of wealth

Ajit Balakrishnan: Greek lessons

The big question from Greece's predicament: do history and geography trump economics?

Ajit Balakrishnan: When retirement beckons

How do the powerful manage the approach of long years of retirement?

Ajit Balakrishnan: What the monsoon winds bring

Social conflict is inevitable with any kind of economic and technological change

Ajit Balakrishnan: The American university - trouble in paradise?

The American university, once the envy of the world, is in crisis

Ajit Balakrishnan: Reflections at a convocation

Why management syllabi should not be attuned to the markets

Ajit Balakrishnan: Sons who won't leave home

Successful parents are increasingly faced with continuing to support children in their 20s or 30s

Ajit Balakrishnan: India's economic theory fashion cycles

'Make in India' could suffer the same fate as did privatisation and the command economy

Ajit Balakrishnan: The impending broadband wars

Soon, India will have to deal with the question of whether broadband service providers are 'common carriers', like highways

Ajit Balakrishnan: Of websites and factories

Regulating the internet only as a medium is somewhat similar to regulating electricity only as a driver of the TV industry

Ajit Balakrishnan: Rescuing a threatened species - the Manager

The general-purpose liberal education management schools provide has to give way to a strong injection of computer science and data science skills

Ajit Balakrishnan: Hail the invisible hand of the state

Neither pharma nor IT would have become the stars of the economy without the active but largely invisible hand of the Indian state

Ajit Balakrishnan: The Great War, online

Why we must prepare for the epochal struggle around net neutrality

Ajit Balakrishnan: Uber, Baazee.com redux?

The Information Technology Act needs another tweak to allow a different kind of information intermediary to flourish