INDIA भारत —MIDSEMESTER MODULE Spring 2014

Faculty: Jan Barton. GBS 460. E-mail: jbarton@emory.edu. Phone: (404) 727.6398 Assistant: Marie Schmitt Logistics: Anup Nair, Managing Director, Incentive Destinations Pvt Ltd., #12 First Floor, MGF

Mega City Mall, MG Road, Gurgaon, 122-002, Haryana, India. Phone: +91 98.1114.1569. E-mail: anup.nair@incentive-destinations.com. Web: incentive-destinations.com.

MODULE DESCRIPTION The goal of the 2014 India mid-semester module is to provide students with a rigorous first-hand exposure to the cultural, social, economic and political dimensions of doing business in India. Participants first will learn about these dimensions by participating in pre-trip meetings. Then, in India, participants will visit cultural sites and meet with business, government and NGO representatives. Upon return, participants will share their experiences by contributing to a “trip journal.” MODULE MEETINGS

MEETING DATE TIME TOPIC 1 TBA TBA Introduction to module: Logistics, travel, expectations 2 TBA 4:00-5:30pm Introduction to India: History, culture, economy, politics, society – – – TRIP: February 26, 2014—March 15, 2014 (See attached schedule for a tentative itinerary) 4 TBA 5:00-8:00pm Final get-together at Jan Barton’s home TUITION AND EXPECTED EXPENSES The tuition for the module will range between $3,800 and $4,000 per person, depending on the number of students participating in the module, and payable to the MBA program office by January 15, 2014. Because the total cost for the group will have been contracted with local providers, tuition will not be reimbursed after that date. Please give your check to Amy Bently or Morgan Moorehead. The tuition amount covers domestic travel and transportation (e.g., Economy-class airfare, train and bus), hotel accommodation on a double basis, mineral water during bus rides, services of English speaking guides, gratuities, fees, all breakfasts, and seven group meals while in India (see the attached schedule). It does not include other expenses such as international airfare, Indian visa fees, vaccinations, foreign travel insurance, other meals, personal expenses (e.g., telephone, Wi-Fi, laundry, table drinks, etc.), and photography/film charges at visited monuments. You should expect to pay about $1,500 for international travel, $150 for visa, and $350 for local expenses. INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL You should plan to depart from Atlanta to New Delhi in the afternoon of Wednesday, February 26, 2014, and depart from Bombay to Atlanta in the early hours of Saturday, March 15, 2014. If you are planning on traveling with Delta Air Lines, you will more likely connect through Paris or Amsterdam. I will most likely be on these Delta flights (operated by Air France and KLM): Wed, 26 Feb 2014 DL 8517 ATL-CDG Leaving at 6:15 pm Thu, 27 Feb 2014 DL 8650 CDG-DEL Arriving at 11:10 pm Sat, 15 Mar 2014 DL 49 BOM-AMS Leaving at 1:25 am Sat, 15 Mar 2014 DL 49 AMS-ATL Arriving at 3:18 pm

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TRAVEL MEDICE Make sure you are up-to-date with your immunizations (including, but not limited to, measles/mumps/rubella, diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus, polio, hepatitis A and B, typhoid, rabies, and malaria). Emory’s student health (studenthealth.emory.edu) should be able to help you determine which specific immunizations you will need, as well as give you recommendations to stay healthy while you are in India. If you prefer to see someone outside the Emory network, I recommend Peachtree Travel Clinic. They are at Piedmont Hospital, at 275 Collier Road, Office #450A, Atlanta, GA 30309. Tel. (404) 351-2572. Email: nurse@peachtreetravelclinic.com. Ask to see Toni Selby, and let her know you are my student. ATTIRE You should wear business casual clothing for all our business meetings. That means no jeans, sneakers, sandals, T-shirts, shorts, tank tops, etc. In fact, dressing etiquette in India tends to be fairly modest so you should plan not to wear clothing that is too revealing, especially if you are female. You can find suggestions about what to wear and bring online or in travel guides like Frommer’s, Rough Guide, and Lonely Planet. ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADES Your final grade is based on the following assignments:

• Report on assigned topic 20% • Case discussions while in India 20 • Attendance to meetings before trip 10 • Attendance to and quality of participation in all official visits in India 30 • Teamwork and good citizenship while in India 20

100% Your final score is the weighted average (based on the above weights) of your scores in each assignment. I will rank everyone’s final scores and then, following GBS guidelines, I will assign a DS to roughly the top 15% of the class, an HP to the following 35%, a PS to the next 40%, and an LP to the bottom 10%. If the scores end up being too close to each other to permit a reasonable distribution of letter grades, then I will assign grades on a PASS/FAIL basis. Honor Code or Conduct Code violation will earn an NC. REPORT ON ASSIGNED TOPIC/VISIT ORGANIZATION Each person will be responsible for writing a one-page report on an assigned topic (e.g., a place we visited, a group experience, etc.). I will post a Qualtrics survey to collect your preferences and assign you to one of these duties based on your preferences. REQUIRED CASE ANALYSES AND DISCUSSIONS As soon as we have the final itinerary set—around early February 2014—I will post a couple of HBS cases that you will analyze and prepare to discuss in India. These will likely involve a company that we will visit or one of its competitors. We will discuss the cases either during dinner or, most likely, en route to the visits. SUGGESTED READINGS/FILMS These books and films provide an excellent introduction to India. I strongly suggest you take a look at them before the trip. Contemporary India, by Katherine Adeney and Andrew Wyatt, 2010 CultureShock! India: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette, by Gitanjali Kolanad, 2008 Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure, by Sarah Macdonald, 2002 Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts, 2003 Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle, 2008 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, directed by John Madden, 2011

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OTHER SUGGESTED READINGS AND FILMS It is up to you to decide how much you want to prepare for the trip. Below is a list of some of the books I’ve read on India; the asterisk show which I enjoyed most. You might want to read their descriptions on Amazon.com and choose at least two or three books across categories to read before the trip.

General culture and society Enjoying India: The Essential Handbook, by J.D. Viharini, 2010 ** India–A Portrait, by Patrick French, 2011 India–Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture, by Becky Stephen, 2010 India, by Stanley Wolpert, 2009 History A Traveler’s History of India, 4th ed., by Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda, 2007 ** Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, by Lizzie Collingham, 2006 Great Soul–Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India, by Joseph Lelyveld, 2011 ** India–A History, by John Keay, 2010 ** Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire, by Alex Von Tunzelmann, 2007 Spice: The History of a Temptation, by Jack Turner, 2004 Political economy and current business trends ** Doing Business in 21st-Century India, by Gunjan Bagla, 2008 Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation, by Nandan Nilekani, 2008 ** India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, by Ramachandra Guha, 2007 India Arriving: How this Economics Powerhouse is Redefining Global Business, by Rafiq Dossani, 2008 India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking, by Anand Giridharadas, 2011 India Grows at Night, by Gurcharan Das, 2012 India: The Emerging Giant, by Arvind Panagariya, 2008 India’s Global Powerhouses: How They are Taking on the World, by Nirmalya Kumar, 2009 Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power, by Robert D. Kaplan, 2010 India vs. China Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures—and Yours, by Tarun Khanna, 2007 Chindia Rising: Implications for Global Competitiveness, by Jag Sheth, 2011 Getting China and India Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World's Fastest Growing Economies for Global

Advantage, by Anil K. Gupta and Haiyan Wang, 2009 Healthcare, public health and human rights AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India, edited by Negar Akhavi, 2008 ** Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl

WuDunn, 2009 State of the Heart: A Medical Tourist's True Story of Lifesaving Surgery in India, by Maggi Ann Grace, 2007 The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India, by Shelley Seale, 2010 Religion and spirituality A Survey of Hinduism, 3d ed., Klaus Klostermaier, 2007 Bhagavad Gita: The Beloved Lord’s Secret Love Song, by Graham M. Schweig, 2007 ** Gita Wisdom: An Introduction to India’s Essential Yoga Text, by Joshua M. Greene, 2008 India: A Sacred Geography, by Diana Eck, 2012 Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, by William Dalrymple, 2009 The Bhagavad Gita, by Eknath Easwaran, 2007 The Hindu Traditions: A Concise Introduction, by Mark Muesse, 2011 The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American S, by Radhanath Swani, 2008 ** The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic, by R. K. Narayan, 1973 ** The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice, by Georg Feuerstein, 2001 Vedanta: A Simple Introduction, by Pravrajika Vrajaprana, 1999 ** What the Buddha Taught, by Walpola Rahula, 1974 ** Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic, by Darren Main, 2007

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Literature–Fiction ** A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry, 1995 ** A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth, 1993 Climbing Chamundi Hill: 1001 Steps with a Storyteller and a Reluctant Pilgrim, by Ariel Glucklich, 2003 Ganesha Goes to Lunch: Classics from Mystic India, by Kamla Kapur, 2007 Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999 Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, by Suketu Mehta, 2004 Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie, 1980 Mumbai Fables—A history of an enchanted city, by Gyan Prakash, 2010 ** Separate Journeys: Short Stories by Contemporary Indian Women, edited by Geeta Dharmarajan, 2004 ** Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, 1951 ** Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers, edited by Shyam Selvadurai, 2005 The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, 1997 The Raj Quartet, Vols. 1-4, by Paul Scott, various The Sandalwood Tree, by Elle Newmark, 2011 The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar, 2006 ** The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature, edited by Amit Chaudhuri, 2002 The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, 2008 Literature–Nonfiction Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo, 2012 City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi, by William Dalrymple, 1993 Daughter of the Ganges: The Story of One Girl's Adoption and Her Return Journey to India, by Asha Miró, 2003 Planes, Trains, and Auto-Rickshaws: A Journey through Modern India, by Laura Pedersen, 2012 Films ** Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids, directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, 2004 ** Gandhi, directed by Richard Attenborough, 1982 ** Monsoon Wedding, directed by Mira Nair, 2001

DAY DATE LOCATION MORNING AFTERNOON MEALS HOTEL− Wed 2/26 Atlanta − Depart Atlanta In flight In flight− Thu 2/27 En route En route Arrive in Delhi around midnight In flight Taj Mahal Delhi1 Fri 2/28 Delhi National Museum Qutab Minar* L: On your own Taj Mahal Delhi

Swaminarayan Akshardam Temple D: Veda2 Sat 3/1 Delhi/ Fly to Dehradun Tour of Haridwar L: On your own Ganga Lahari Haridwar

Haridwar Ganga aarti D: On your own3 Sun 3/2 Faridwar/ Bus ride to camp Water rafting down the Ganges L: At camp Camp

Rishikesh Water rafting down the Ganges Sivananda Yoga ashram D: At campGanga aarti

4 Mon 3/3 Rishikesh/ Bus ride to Dehradun Fly to Delhi (12:30pm-1:20pm) L: On your own Taj Mahal Delhi Delhi Yoga practice Raj Ghat (Gandhi memorial) D: On your own

Rickshaw ride through Old DelhiJama Masjid, Chandni Chawk#, Red Fort*#Sheesh Ganj Gurudwara

5 Tue 3/4 Delhi GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY L: The Imperial Taj Mahal Delhi President's House Infosys/Microsoft D: On your own Parliament Cottage Industries

6 Wed 3/5 Delhi HEALTH CARE/MEDICAL TOURISM MICROFINANCE/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT L: McDonald's Taj Mahal Delhi Fortis Hospital Bhandwari Village D: Kingdon of Dreams

Dilli Haat7 Thu 3/6 Delhi/ Shatabdi Express train ride to Agra Agra Fort* L: Pizza Hut Trident Agra

Agra Fatehpur Sikri* Sunset visit to Taj Mahal*# D: Hooka place8 Fri 3/7 Agra/ Bus ride to Delhi Fly to Udaipur L: On your own Trident Udaipur

Udaipur D: On your own9 Sat 3/8 Udaipur City Palace# Boat cruise on Lake Pichola# L: On your own Trident Udaipur

Saheliyon Ki Bari# D: On your own10 Sun 3/9 Udaipur/ Fly to Mumbai (7:15-8:30am) Fly to Goa (12:05-1:10pm) L: On your own Taj Holiday Village

Goa D: On your own11 Mon 3/10 Goa Free time/beach# Late afternoon visit to Old Goa*, Latin Quarter L: On your own Taj Holiday Village

Sé Cathedral, Basilica of Bom Jesus D: Beach shack12 Tue 3/11 Goa Free time/beach# Tour of Panjim L: On your own Taj Holiday Village

D: Beach shack13 Wed 3/12 Goa/ Fly to Mumbai ENTREPRENEURSHIP/DEVELOPMENT L: On your own Taj Mahal Palace#

Mumbai Dharavi slum D: Leopold's Cafe14 Thu 3/13 Mumbai Tour of Mumbai FILM INDUSTRY L: Infinity Mall Taj Mahal Palace#

Dhobit Ghat, Mani Bhavan (Gandhi's home) Film City D: On your ownMahalakshmi Temple, Victoria Terminus* Maya Digital Studios PvtKhotachiwadi Heritage Village Bollywood fil set

15 Fri 3/14 Mumbai Elephanta Island* Free time L: Jimmy Boy In flightD: Khyber

− Sat 3/15 Atlanta Depart Mumbai after midnight Arrive in Atlanta In flight Home

Business * UNESCO World Heritage Site Tourism # 1000 Places To See Before You DieFree time/shoppingIncluded group meals