Publications

February 2023
Teaching Note

Sercomm: Operating in China Amid COVID-19 and Beyond

By: Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-005. View Details

May–June 2025
Article

Why Should Organizational Scholars Study Migration?

By: Exequiel Hernandez, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Elena Kulchina, Dan Wang, J. Miles Shaver, Mary Zellmer-Bruhn and Tarun Khanna

Migration is one of the most significant forces shaping economies and societies, yet it remains largely understudied in organizational research. At the same time, scholars in other fields with long traditions of studying migration tend to overlook the essential role of... View Details

Keywords: Research; Immigration; Organizations

October 2022 (Revised February 2023)
Teaching Note

Tulsa Remote: Moving Talent to Middle America

By: Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-048. View Details

January 2023
Article

Firm-Induced Migration Paths and Strategic Human-Capital Outcomes

By: Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Victoria Sevcenko

Firm-induced migration typically entails firms relocating workers to fill value-creating positions at destination locations. But such relocated workers are often exposed to external employment opportunities at their destinations, possibly triggering turnover. We... View Details

Keywords: Worker Relocation; Turnover; Firm-induced Migration; Smaller Towns; Employee Mobility; Geographic Mobility; Migration; Clusters; Employees; Geographic Location; Performance; Opportunities; Retention; Human Capital; Talent and Talent Management

2020
Working Paper

Should Firms Move Talent from the Geographic Periphery to Hubs? A Strategic Human Capital Perspective

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Victoria Sevcenko and Tarun Khanna

A longstanding literature holds that firms should hire and move talent from the geographic periphery to hubs as a means to create value from human capital. They do so, however, at the risk of losing the worker to rivals located in the same geographic hub,... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Residency; Technology Industry; India

2019
Report

Prime Minister's Scientist Return to India (SRI) Program: Proposal

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna

A Summary of a set of policies proposed to the Indian Government regarding return migration. View Details

Keywords: Return Migration; Policy; India

April 2020 (Revised February 2023)
Supplement

GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (B)

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Emma Salomon

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

2012
Chapter

Physical, Social and Informational Barriers to Domestic Migration

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna

Keywords: Economic Development; Development Economics; Economic Growth

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2011
Conference Presentation

Physical, Social and Informational Barriers to Domestic Migration

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna

January 2008
Teaching Note

Microsoft in China and India, 1993-2007 (TN)

By: Tarun Khanna and Prithwiraj Choudhury

Teaching Note for [708444]. View Details

Keywords: China; India

2020
Working Paper

Food Security and Human Mobility During the COVID-19 Lockdown

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo, Xina Li, Nishant Kishore, Satchit Balsari and Tarun Khanna

During the COVID-19 crisis, millions of migrants around the world face food insecurity. This could force migrants to travel during the pandemic, exposing them to health risks and accelerating the spread of the virus. Anecdotal evidence demonstrates the importance of... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Migrants; Food Security; Mobility; Health Pandemics; Food; Distribution; Policy; Global Range

SSRN

August 2022
Case

BRAC: Working-from-Home in Emerging Markets

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna

Educators

Spring 2014
Article

Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna

In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the "dynamic trajectories" framework to study the evolution of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries over time. We argue that a change in the policy environment in a host country presents an... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Change; India

2011
Conference Paper

Physical, Social and Informational Barriers to Domestic Migration

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna

2012
Working Paper

The Anatomy of Intellectual Property Theft: The Case of Chinese and Indian Herbal Patents

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna

October 2015
Case

Integrating Avocent Corporation into Emerson Network Power

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Vincent M. Servello

This case reviews Emerson Electric’s proposed acquisition of Avocent Corporation in 2009. The focus of this case is how a technology company such as Avocent, with a dramatically different business model compared to its acquirer, should be integrated into a large,... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Integration; Human Capital; Acquisition; Technology Industry

Educators