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June 06, 2011: Prof. Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School, talks about current Indian higher education system in Mint. He says, Indian higher education suffers from inadequate competition among the better institutions, inadequate experimentation, and inadequate measurement of outcomes. But he sees ray of hope in Aspiring Minds, a company started by IIT & MIT almuns brother duo, which has managed to place more than 10,000 youngsters from outside the mainstream—that is, not from top-tier colleges, and not from major metros—into top-tier jobs, through its state-of-the-art measurement and assessment system that dramatically and cost-effectively increases the talent pool accessible to any corporate firm operating in India.