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Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours | 
 enlarge | Author: Tarun Khanna
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 124876
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 1422103838
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.040951
EAN: 9781422103838
ASIN: 1422103838
Publication Date: January 21, 2008
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Called well worth reading by The Economist and earnest and entertaining by the Financial Times, Tarun Khanna s Billions of Entrepreneurs is an elegantly written book that mixes on-the-ground stories with thorough research to show how Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs are creating change through new business models and bringing hope to countless people across the globe. Khanna juxtaposes, on a variety of levels, China and India; explores how the future depends on understanding the yin and yang of these two nations; and emphasizes the increasingly important links between China, India, and the West. Khanna embraces what he calls a big tent view of entrepreneurship going beyond typical stories of high profile, young executives taking companies public and focusing on social and political entrepreneurs who are redefining the norms of daily activity.
In the book, Khanna sets out to demystify many of the questions that confound foreigners (BusinessWeek), exploring subjects that include each nation s treatment of multinationals, Chinese and Indian managerial talent, and state vs. grassroots approaches to business and entrepreneurship. Khanna s insightful analysis draws on history, economics, and political science, and is humanized by vivid portraits of the lives of individual entrepreneurs, politicians, and activists whom the author has met during his regular visits to each country. He argues that hope for prosperity in both countries lies in the hands of the billions of entrepreneurs who are alleviating social problems and historic tensions, benefiting both countries and the world at large.
According to the Financial Times: What Khanna does do, and does well, is cover vast sociopolitical and economic ground, and provide meaty information derived from conversations with people who have done business in India and China.
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Illuminating survey April 23, 2008
Rolf Dobelli (Luzern Switzerland)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a curious book, not really about entrepreneurship but rather about a broad range of cultural, social, historical and economic subjects involving and contrasting China and India, from 1.5 billion village dwellers to urbanites in Beijing and Mumbai. Tarun Khanna's text is part travelogue, part reflection, part history and part speculation about the future. Anyone who has read to any depth about China and India will not find all that much that is surprising here. However, getAbstract recommends this book with enthusiasm because of its nearly unique richness of anecdotes, variety of perspectives, color and range.
 Disappointing June 19, 2008
Katherine E. Shults (Indianapolis, IN)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I had the misfortune to be assigned this book as a textbook for a class on global competitive strategy. I was very excited about exploring international perspectives in business, however this book proved useless. Stylistically, the prose is pretentious and verbose, making it difficult to read. It seems as though the author was more interested in showing off his extensive vocabulary than in coherently expressing his point. Also, the author relies heavily on name-dropping and anecdotal evidence to give credibility to his theories. If there is one thing I have learned in my extensive travels, it's that one person's experience does not translate into an immutable or universal truth. In short, this book turned into a very time-consuming and frustrating read with few useful lessons.
 Interesting and provocative February 7, 2008
R. Gulati (Chicago, IL, USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
For those interested in a wonderful contemporary account of simultaneous developments in both India and China, this is a must read. All too often there have been too many books that consider these booming economies in isolation. And yet in todays interdependent world, such isolationist accounts provide limited insight on how their astounding growth can best be understood by their growing interconnections with other economies. This novel treatise provides a descriptive and normative account of how both India and China are developing greater linkages with each other that are likely to profoundly reshape the global landscape. In another distinct departure from prior accounts, this book explores not just the economic facets of change but also the political and social dimensions as well. This well researched and accessible book is likely to have broad appeal to a wide range of people that include business executives, public policy decision makers, scholars, and to anyone else that is curious to learn more about these dynamic economies.
Billions of Insights February 7, 2008
J. Moon
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is a must-read for those seeking insight into what's going on in Asia and its implications for the rest of the world. It's replete with illustrative and entertaining accounts and provides helpful frameworks for understanding two of the most important countries in the global economy today.
Amazingly racy storytelling which comprehensively covers all aspects of the two nations February 14, 2008
Ajit Martis (Mumbai, Maharashtra India)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Absolutely recommended for anyone remotely connected with India and China. The storytelling style is amazing. The book covers the history, the progress in recent times, the similarities and dissimilarities in a truly eye opening fashion. The comparative examples be it in terms of development of cities, birth of large global corporations, the contrasting political framework, the press and media functioning, influence of the large non-resident population, education systems, healthcare systems, etc make for very interesting reading. Even as an informed Indian, there were many things I learnt for the first time.
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