Vision India@75

“India has a potential to lead the world in 2022 with its predicted largest pool of manpower consisting of 200 million college graduates and 500 million trained and skilled workforce. It could be home for at least 30 of the Fortune 100 companies of the world and generate over 10% of the world trade, by nurturing a vibrant renaissance of world-class contemporary art, science, research and education could have at least 10 Nobel Prize Winners. This is possible in next fifteen years provided leaders focus on this goal as a priority.”

These are the words from the leading management Guru Prof. C. K. Prahlad, who visited SVKM's NMIMS University on 19th July 2008 to lay out his vision for India @ 75.

The recent visit of Prof. C.K. Prahalad to India has given us opportunities to hear him on TV and/or in person and admire his thinking and vision for India. I can't agree more to his views on India lacking a shared aspiration - "He said that “As a country, India must have high and shared aspirations like it had in 1929 when the leaders of the then Congress party declared their ambition as Poorna Swaraj. Since then, India has never had a national aspiration which every Indian could share.” "

I am big fan of C. K. Prahalad's writing:

• The End of Corporate Imperialism: An HBR article that won "McKinsey Award for the Best HBR Articles" in 1998!
• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Guide on Eradicating Poverty through Profits

Reading the book "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" really helped me understand practical use Business Sustainability concepts. You can get a glimpse of the book by reading the strategy+business article written by Prof. Prahalad.