Publications

27 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy

across the country. This January, as part of Harvard Business School's lmmersive Field Course (IFC) in India on "Decarbonizing While Developing," we had the privilege of exploring how various industries are tackling the dual challenges of... View Details

28 Aug 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Homesick or Home Run? Distance from Hometown and Employee Performance: A Natural Experiment from India

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury and Ohchan Kwon

06 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

across the country. Introduction and ContextOur time in India exposed the severe risks vulnerable populations face due to climate change, while showcasing the resilience of local communities working to address these challenges. During our... View Details

26 Jan 2017
News

India love: when Harvard and Tata Trusts joined hands for survival of artistic traditions

20 May 2021
News

New Leadership at Educational Initiatives

Keywords: edtech; leadership; India; Educational Services

May 2016 (Revised June 2017)
Case

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

March–April 2019
Article

A Recombination-Based Internationalization Model: Evidence from Narayana Health's Journey from India to the Cayman Islands

By: Budhaditya Gupta and Tarun Khanna

Internationalizing firms often find developing host-country resources challenging as they simultaneously attempt to replicate the resources that worked well in their home country and adapt them to fit the context of the host country. On the basis of a longitudinal... View Details

Keywords: Recombination; Internationalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Health Care and Treatment; India; Cayman Islands

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December 2014 (Revised October 2017)
Case

Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar

By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and David Lane

Late in 2013, Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez was considering whether or how to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India while expanding access to medicine and health information to millions of... View Details

Keywords: Shared Value; India; Kenya; Vietnam; Novartis; Arogya Parivar; Social Business; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Pharmaceutical Industry; Viet Nam; Kenya; India

16 Apr 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Can Biometric Tracking Improve Healthcare Provision and Data Quality? Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control in India

Keywords: by Thomas Bossuroy, Clara Delavallade, and Vincent Pons; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

February 2014
Teaching Note

Ford Asia Pacific & Africa: The E-coating Facility Decision in Gujarat, India (A) and (B)

By: Juan Alcácer

25 Jan 2019
News

IndiGo's New Captain

Keywords: India; airline industry; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

April 2016 (Revised November 2017)
Case

InMobi: Reimagining Mobile Advertising

By: Sunil Gupta and Saloni Chaturvedi

InMobi, a mobile advertising company, considered one of India's first unicorns, has launched a new product called Miip. InMobi hopes that the product will grow its revenue eight times by 2018. Visually identified by a mascot, Miip seeks to reimagine adverting by... View Details

Keywords: Mobile App; Advertising; India; Applications and Software; Globalization; Digital Marketing; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Advertising Industry; China; India

23 May 2014
News

A Crossroads for Indian and Its Business Landscape

Keywords: India; economic policies; Narendra Modi

1998
Working Paper

Policy Shocks, Market Intermediaries, and Corporate Strategy: The Evolution of Business Groups in Chile and India

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

04 Nov 2022
News

Vikram Gandhi At India Today Conclave |Save Planet Earth: ESG & The Reality Of Sustainable Investing

01 Jan 2009
Conference Presentation

Defining Fashion: The Role of the Media in Constructing the Meaning of the Fashion Industry in India

By: Mukti Khaire

Keywords: Media; Fashion Industry; India

September 2025
Article

Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India

By: Shawn Cole, Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna

This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite measurements may be effective at estimating both agricultural yields and treatment... View Details

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; India

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January 2017 (Revised May 2019)
Case

Paytm: Building a Payments Network

By: Sunil Gupta, Das Narayandas and Rachna Tahilyani

By January 2017, Paytm, a mobile payments company that started in 2010, became India’s largest mobile payments platform with over 142 million users and $5 billion valuation. Could Paytm become a $100 billion company its founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma envisioned it be? View Details

Keywords: Mobile Payments; Ecommerce; Mobile App; India; Entrepreneurship; Expansion; Service Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology; E-commerce; Service Industry; India