Went for Cost, Stayed for Quality?: Moving the Back Office to India
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The Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) is an important Stanford venue, where faculty and students, visiting scholars, and distinguished business and government leaders meet and exchange views on contemporary Asia and U.S. involvement in the region. APARC research results in seminars and conferences, published studies, occasional and discussion papers, special reports, and books. APARC maintains an active industrial affiliates and training program, involving more than twenty-five U.S. and Asian companies and public agencies. Members of APARC's faculty have held high-level posts in government and business. Their interdisciplinary expertise generates research of lasting significance on economic, political, technological, strategic, and social issues. Rafiq Dossani is a senior research scholar at the Asia/Pacific Research Center, responsible for developing and directing the South Asia Initiative. His research interests include financial, technology, and energy-sector reform in India. He is currently undertaking a project on the upgrade of information technology in Indian start-ups, and on the institutional phasing-in of power sector reform in Andhra Pradesh. He serves as an advisor to India's Securities and Exchange Board (SEBI) in the area of venture capital reform. the role and history of the venture capital industry, the development of Silicon Valley, and new firm formation in the Internet business space. He is the author of Biotechnology: The University-Industrial Complex (Yale 1986) and edited the book Understanding Silicon Valley (Stanford 2000). He has consulted for various governments and private sector entities, the United Nations, and the World Bank. He has been a visiting professor at Cambridge
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