Publications

February 1997
Case

RPG Enterprises--1995

As in most emerging markets, a significant portion of the Indian private sector is dominated by extensively diversified, often family-owned or controlled, business groups. This case examines the strategy and structure of one of the largest business groups in India, at... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Alignment; Policy; Problems and Challenges; India

1997
Working Paper

Corporate Strategies for Emerging Markets in Business Groups

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

1996
Working Paper

The Nature of Diversified Business Groups: A Research Design and Two Case Studies

By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Tarun Khanna

1996
Working Paper

Corporate Scope and Institutional Context: An Empirical Analysis of Diversified Indian Business Groups

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

1996
Working Paper

Winner-Take-All Alliances

September 1995
Teaching Note

Choice Hotels International,1995 TN

Teaching Note for (9-795-165). View Details

Keywords: United States

September 1995 (Revised May 1997)
Teaching Note

Microsoft, 1995 TN

Teaching Note for (9-795-147) and (9-799-003). View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry

September 1995 (Revised November 2005)
Teaching Note

Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993 & 2005 Update (TN)

Teaching Note for (9-795-115) and (9-797-107). View Details

Keywords: Information Technology Industry; China

April 1995 (Revised June 1996)
Case

Choice Hotels International, 1995

By: Tarun Khanna and Israel Yellen Ganot

Illustrates the various ways in which Choice Hotels, the franchiser for seven mid-market hotel chains, can realize economies of scope across its multiple products. Also provides an opportunity to discuss the benefits and limitations of various organizational forms... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Competition; Franchise Ownership; Accommodations Industry; United States

February 1995 (Revised August 1995)
Case

Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993

Explores some of the economic and political tradeoffs that need to be negotiated by a firm seeking to influence industry structure. The setting is the nascent personal computer software industry in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1993. Microsoft has to localize... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Product Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Partners and Partnerships; Vertical Integration; Software; Information Technology Industry; China

spring 1994
Article

Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances

By: Ranjay Gulati, Tarun Khanna and Nitin Nohria

How the partners in an alliance view their joint venture can have much to do with its success or failure. Each partner fears that the other will get the larger payoff by acting opportunistically while it cooperates in good faith. The result is that both partners choose... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Partners and Partnerships; Joint Ventures; Management Practices and Processes; Alliances; Trust; Game Theory

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Teaching Interest

Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems

What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of the state or other actors? Intractable problems – such as lack of access to education and healthcare, forced reliance on contaminated... View Details

Teaching Interest

Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (Online Course)