Azadpur Mandi- Delhi’s Wholesale Produce Market
Paul Artiuch and Sam Kornstein are graduate students at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Throughout the month of January researched market-oriented approaches to reducing agricultural food waste in India. BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD January 10, 2012 Soon after arriving in Delhi, we took a walk over to a local market and spoke with a [...]
Beginning Essmart’s Inventory Experiment in Pollachi, Southern Tamil Nadu, India
Diana Jue traveled to India to implement Essmart. Essmart is an essential technology distributor with an in-store presence. Currently, essential technologies such as bicycle-powered machines, affordable solar lanterns, and smokeless cook stoves designed for the bottom of the pyramid are not well distributed. Essmart combines process innovations in product sourcing, distribution, marketing, and after-sales service [...]
Integrating computers in a rural village in India
Sisters Shriddha ’09 and Samiksha Nayak ’10 traveled to Hichkad India, their ancestral home, over IAP 2008. This trip meant setting up the Hichkad Primary School’s first computer and teaching everyone how to use it. They were able to work with the local teachers and integrated the computer into course curricula. In addition to the [...]
Improving TB treatment with Team Treatment Buddies
Tuberculosis claims nearly 2 million lives annually. The vast majority of these deaths occur in the developing world, where lack of drug adherence leads to new and deadly drug-resistant strains. TB fatalities arise not from a lack of scientific knowledge—effective treatment was developed in 1946—but in the last mile of treatment. Figuring out where treatment [...]
