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Marketing - Doctoral

Fu Sunil Gupta Ayelet Israeli Leslie K. John Tarun Khanna Himabindu Lakkaraju Rajiv Lal Jacqueline Ng Lane Michael Lingzhi Li Edward McFowland III Henry W. McGee Antonio Moreno John C. Mulliken Das... View Details

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Business Economics - Doctoral

J. Hall Samuel G. Hanson Victoria Ivashina Ebehi Iyoha Archie L. Jones Robert S. Kaplan William R. Kerr Tarun Khanna Raymond P. Kluender Jacqueline Ng Lane Josh Lerner Edward McFowland III David A. Moss... View Details

06 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

PublicationsFlying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Author:Thomas J. DeLong Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
Case

PDS: Ring-Fencing the Ranch

By: Dennis Campbell, Tarun Khanna and Kerry Herman

Pallak Seth, Group CEO of PDS Multinational Fashions, is contemplating options to bring better collaboration across his global apparel supply chain platform. PDS, a group of 50-plus subsidiary companies, each led by its own CEO and with different apparel industry... View Details

Keywords: Collaboration; Supply Chain Management; Performance; Partners and Partnerships; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Apparel and Accessories Industry

November 2020 (Revised March 2023)
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Zipline: The World's Largest Drone Delivery Network

By: Tarun Khanna and George Gonzalez

Zipline established the world's largest logistics network in Rwanda and Ghana by delivering medical supplies to hospitals via automated drones. The company is now looking to expand in the U.S. and partnered with Walmart to expand into home delivery. Zipline must... View Details

Keywords: Drones; Business Startups; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States; Africa

Research Summary

Dissertation: "Essays in International Non-market Strategy and the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation"

My dissertation is part of a research agenda intended to advance our understanding of the interaction between companies and non-market actors (e.g. regulators) in an international context. The empirical setting of my analysis is the European Union Emissions Trading... View Details

June 2005 (Revised August 2011)
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Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (A)

By: Tarun Khanna, V. Kasturi Rangan and Merlina Manocaran

Describes the mission, vision, and strategy of a team of entrepreneurs headed by a charismatic heart surgeon who founded a heart hospital in Bangalore, India. The purpose of the hospital was to offer health care for the masses. This tertiary care hospital performed... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Goals and Objectives; Social Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Welfare; Health Industry; Service Industry; Bangalore

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Creating Emerging Markets

Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership" (Harvard University Press, 2023) 15 May 2022 The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Leadership to Last: New Book by Geoffrey Jones and View Details

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Strategy Faculty - Faculty & Research

University Professor Rebecca A. Karp Assistant Professor of Business Administration Tarun Khanna Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor Cynthia A. Montgomery Timken Professor of Business Administration Charles B.... View Details

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Placement - Doctoral

Nataliya Langburd Wright Strategy, 2023 Placement: Columbia Business School, Management Division Dissertation: Where Growth Strategy Matters: Evidence from a Global Startup Field Study Advisors: Tarun Khanna... View Details

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Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

across the world’s fourth largest dairy cooperative. April 2025 Teaching Material Aramco: Navigating the Energy Transition By: Tarun Khanna and Samir Junnarkar Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 725-358. April... View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

characterized the first seven months of our relationship. It was difficult, but we knew we had something special. By chance, Laura inched her way closer to me. She was tapped for a role in Philadelphia, and I was serendipitously staffed... View Details

November 2021 (Revised December 2022)
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Babban Gona: Great Farm

By: Kristin Fabbe, Tarun Khanna, Caroline M. Elkins, Zeke Gillman, Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Thomaz Teodorovicz

In 2020, Babban Gona was one of the world’s largest farming operations with over 140,000 acres of maize farms, an area over ten times as large as Manhattan, and over 80,000 member-farmers in Nigeria. According to the company, the average Nigerian farmer’s net income... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Value Creation; Agribusiness; Capital Budgeting; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa

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Strategy - Faculty & Research

May 2025 Harvard Business School Harvard Business School's MBA Class of 2025 Celebrates Class Day Re: Meg Rithmire, Edward (Ted) Berk, Andy Wu & Rawi Abdelal 28 May 2025 Harvard Gazette Tarun Khanna Leaves... View Details

May 2016 (Revised June 2017)
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India's Amul: Keeping Up with the Times

By: Rohit Deshpandé, Tarun Khanna, Namrata Arora and Tanya Bijlani

Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947—eight months before India's independence from British rule—and owned by over three million farmers in the state of Gujarat. It is India's largest food product marketing organization, selling 46 products, including... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Expansion; Dairy; India; Cooperatives; Milk; Leadership; Agriculture; Agribusiness; Competition; Marketing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; India

May 2014 (Revised March 2016)
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Health City Cayman Islands

By: Tarun Khanna and Budhaditya Gupta

Narayana Health (NH) had been successfully delivering affordable high quality tertiary care to the masses in India through its chain of hospitals for over a decade. To encourage the adoption of the NH affordable care delivery model worldwide, Dr. Shetty, Chairman of... View Details