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Vikas Joshi | |
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Born | 1 October 1963 India |
Nationality | Indian |
Vikas Joshi is an Indian businessman, who founded the technology company Harbinger Group in 1990. [1]
Joshi holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School and IIT, Bombay. His doctoral research in entrepreneurship investigates the co-evolution of technology firms and founders. American Educational Research Association has awarded the top spot for this scholarly work on how entrepreneurs learn and develop.
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