How Entrepreneurs Are Reimagining India's Economy

According to Webster’s Dictionary, an entrepreneur “is a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business enterprise, usually at considerable risk and initiative”.

- BY ARUN MAIRA AUTHOR OF REIMAGING THE INDIAN ECONOMY: THE WAY TO A MORE EQUITABLE SOCIETY (PUBLISHED BY SPEAKING TIGER BOOKS) JUNE 14, 2025

As a management consultant I have guided many business leaders with the disciplines of systems thinking and systems acting to navigate through VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity), and ways to create innovations in their enterprises. Twenty years ago, my interest shifted from the world of business entrepreneurs to the broader world of social entrepreneurs.

I participated in a meeting on “Business as an Agent of World Benefit”, between the UN Global Compact, of whom I was a senior adviser, and the Academy of Management in Cleveland in 2006. The UN Global Compact is an international organization of business corporations that have volunteered to conduct their businesses in a way that will improve society and save the environment. The Academy of Management is the largest organization of business management teachers in the world.