Anil Kumar Gupta is a leading scholar dedicated to understanding and promoting grassroots innovations. As the founder of the Honey Bee Network, he has championed the recognition and development of creativity emerging from everyday life and local communities. His work bridges academic rigor with practical application, inspiring a global movement around sustainable and inclusive innovation.
The book provides a clear and systematic exploration of insulin and insulin resistance, using diagrams to illustrate complex interactions. It caters to a diverse audience, including professionals in biochemistry, medicine, and research. Topics progress from basic concepts to more intricate details, encompassing biochemistry, physiology, and metabolism of insulin, as well as the pathophysiology and effects of insulin resistance on body tissues. It also addresses the implications of insulin resistance syndrome, making it a comprehensive resource for understanding this critical health issue.
Geophagia, the practice of consuming soil, clay, and chalk, is examined through an interdisciplinary lens in this book. It explores the origins of this behavior, its health implications, and the common characteristics shared by those who engage in it. By analyzing various aspects of geophagia, the author provides a comprehensive understanding of this unusual phenomenon and its impact on human health.
Biochemical parameters serve as precise and objective tools for assessing children's nutritional status, offering advantages over anthropometric, clinical, and dietary methods. These laboratory tests measure the concentration of nutrients in body fluids, providing a clearer understanding of nutritional health.
Focusing on the intersection of biochemistry and dental sciences, this text offers dental students a clear understanding of biomolecules' roles in oral health and disease. It presents the pathophysiology of dental tissues in accessible language, along with a chronological evolution of biochemistry. Key topics include the structure and significance of biomolecules, vitamins, and hormones, supplemented with diagrams for clarity. The book also covers essential subjects like nucleic acids, nutrition, and the biochemical aspects of dental conditions, including caries and periodontal diseases.
Focusing on nutritional anemia, the book explores its complex predisposing factors and their impact on preschool children's health. It provides essential insights valuable to various readers, detailing clinical and laboratory methods for assessing the condition. The text is written in accessible language, emphasizing the health implications of nutritional anemia and underscoring the necessity for interventional strategies to manage this public health issue effectively.
About the BookA moral dilemma gripped Professor Gupta when he was invited by the Bangladeshi government to help restructure their agricultural sector in 1985. He noticed how the marginalized farmers were being paid poorly for their otherwise unmatched knowledge. The gross injustice of this constant imbalance led Professor Gupta to found what would turn into a resounding social and ethical movement the Honey Bee Network bringing together and elevating thousands of grassroots innovators. For over two decades, Professor Gupta has travelled through rural lands unearthing innovations by the ranks from the famed Miticool refrigerator to the footbridge of Meghalaya. He insists that to fight the largest and most persistent problems of the world we must eschew expensive research labs and instead, look towards ordinary folk. Innovation that oft-flung around word is stripped to its core in this book. Poignant and personal, Grassroots Innovations is an important treatise from a social crusader of our time.About the AuthorProfessor Anil Gupta is the Executive Vice Chair of the National Innovation Foundation, and is also the founder of the Honey Bee Network. He has been a professor at the Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, since 1981. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2004. He won the Asian Innovation Award (Gold) in 2000.
Smart Globalization is a compendium of leading-edge thinking on global strategy first published in the acclaimed MIT Sloan Management Review. The central premise underlying this book is that globalization can be a double-edged sword. The global or globalizing firm has the potential to reap several types of benefits such as the vast potential of a much larger market arena, opportunities to capture scale- and location-based cost efficiencies, and exposure to a multiplicity of new product and process ideas. However, globalization also exposes the firm to numerous strategic and organizational challenges emanating from a dramatic increase in diversity, complexity, and uncertainty - external as well as internal to the firm. How managers address these challenges determines whether globalization yields competitive advantage or disadvantage and makes the company stronger or weaker. "Smart" globalization is the ability to capture the benefits and minimize the costs and risks. Smart Globalization's expert contributors3/4leaders in the design of winning global strategies and in the creation of effective global networks3/4include: David J. Arnold, Christopher A. Bartlett, Julian M. Birkeinshaw, J. Stewart Black, Joseph N. Fry, Sumantra Ghoshal, Vijay Govindarajan, Hal B. Gregersen, Anil K. Gupta, Stuart L. Hart, W. Chan Kim, Bruce Kogut, David L. Levy, Renée A. Mauborgne, Allen J. Morrison, Mark B. Milstein, Das Narayandas, John A. Quelch, Gordon Swartz, Stephen E. Weiss, and George S. Yip.
The current transformation of isolated state-dominated economies into market-driven globally integrated economies is creating business challenges and opportunities around the globe. Over the last ten years, these authors have studied over one hundred global corporations through a variety of research methods and here distill their findings into four essential goals that executives must achieve in order to transform a company into a global success: Identify and pursue opportunities in key markets. Convert global presence into global competitive advantage. Cultivate a global mindset in order to recognize and exploit good ideas wherever they arise. And constantly reinvent the global game by creating value for customers. Case studies involving Yahoo!, Wal-Mart, and other global players show how the authors' findings can be applied in real-world situations.
