Reflections

Harvard Business Review literature and studies stand at the pinnacle of management thought in the world – at least if you consider the popular realm. While there are many other institutions that are competing with Harvard in terms of Research, at least in India Harvard stands all alone in the popular imagination. This is clearly in evidence if you take a look at Indian Book Stores, which routinely sport its HBR series of books on management thought. This is the 2 nd HBR I am reviewing; and in this I will attempt a different style, anaylsing each article in short points, as well as underscoring the crying need for quality research in India… The saddest aspect of this review is that try as I might, I cannot find even one single book – easily accessible  - on Indian Management Thought from Indian Universities, attuned to Indian Realities and Examples, while book stalls are chock full of books from Foreign Universities loaded with theories and examples from an alien m...