Publications

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 622-080. View Details

June 2020 (Revised February 2023)
Teaching Note

GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 620-066 and 620-117. View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; Remote Operations; Business Offices; Value Creation; Organizational Culture; Business or Company Management; Employee Relationship Management; Communication Strategy; Organizational Structure

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

Column

Use Remote Work to Revitalize the Cities That Need It Most

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

2018
Working Paper

Intellectual Baggage of Ethnic Migrant Inventors: Transfer and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

Ethnic migrant inventors might differ from locals in terms of knowledge they bring to host firms. We study the role of first-generation ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border transfer of knowledge previously locked within the cultural context of their home regions.... View Details

Keywords: Skilled Migration; Ethnic Migration; First-generation Migrant; Cultural Context; Knowledge Flows; Knowledge Reuse; Knowledge Recombination; Recombinant Creation; H1B Visas; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Knowledge Dissemination; Immigration; Ethnicity

October 2022 (Revised February 2023)
Teaching Note

Tulsa Remote: Moving Talent to Middle America

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

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

Keywords: Economic Development; Development Economics; Economic Growth

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2011
Conference Presentation

Physical, Social and Informational Barriers to Domestic Migration

2019
Report

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

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

Keywords: Return Migration; Policy; India

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

February 2023
Teaching Note

Sercomm: Operating in China Amid COVID-19 and Beyond

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

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

October 2015
Teaching Note

Integrating Avocent Corporation into Emerson Network Power

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Vincent M. Servello

2011
Conference Paper

Physical, Social and Informational Barriers to Domestic Migration

2012
Working Paper

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

July 2022
Background Note

FIELD Immersion 2022: Tulsa, Oklahoma

By: Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury and Annelena Lobb

Educators

2021
Working Paper

Multi-location Workers in Multinational Firms? Tradeoffs in Contextual Specialization of Employees and Organizational Outcomes

By: Hise O. Gibson, Ryan W. Buell and Prithwiraj Choudhury

We study how “contextual specialization,” the act of focusing workers’ organizational tasks within a particular locational context, and “contextual non-specialization,” the practice of diversifying workers’ organizational tasks among multiple locational contexts,... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Performance; Experience and Expertise; Selection and Staffing; Strength and Weakness; Personal Development and Career

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

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