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    • 31 May 2022
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Corruption: New Insights for Fighting an Age-Old Business Problem

    Re: Tarun Khanna & Geoffrey G. Jones

    Corruption is as old as humanity, with cases documented as far back as the Egyptian dynasties. While the World Bank estimates that international bribery exceeds $1.5 trillion annually, the larger and more subtle effects of corruption on economies and populations is incalculable. Harvard Business School professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna explore how corruption uniquely affects business in emerging markets, and why it should be addressed by the public and private sectors in their case, “Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets,” and companion video interviews with more than 100 iconic entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

    • 29 Mar 2022
    • Book

    5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

    by Sean Silverthorne

    What makes a business resilient, agile, and enduring? Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna analyze some of India's most successful companies and offer lessons for leaders everywhere in their book Leadership to Last. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 09 Jun 2020
    • Cold Call Podcast

    In a Pandemic, What’s the Best Strategy for the Global Vaccine Alliance?

    Re: Tarun Khanna

    How should the vaccine alliance Gavi respond to the worldwide need for a cure for the COVID-19 pandemic? Tarun Khanna discusses his case study. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 08 Jun 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    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

    COVID-19 represents not only a health crisis but a crisis of food insecurity and starvation for migrants. Central governments should ensure that food security policies are implemented effectively and engage with local governments and local stakeholders to distribute food to migrants in the immediate term.

    • 29 Oct 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Crowdsourcing Memories: Mixed Methods Research by Cultural Insiders-Epistemological Outsiders

    by Tarun Khanna, Karim R. Lakhani, Shubhangi Bhadada, Nabil Khan, Saba Kohli Davé, Rasim Alam, and Meena Hewett

    Research on the traumatic 1947 partition of British India has most often been carried out by scholars in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. This article presents mixed methods research and analysis to explore tensions within current scholarship and to inspire new understandings of the Partition, and more generally, mass migrations and displacement.

    • 21 Aug 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

    by Michael Blanding

    Tarun Khanna and Prithwiraj Choudhury use machine-learning technology to look for links between a CEO's communications style and company performance. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 11 Jun 2019
    • Book

    These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

    by Sean Silverthorne

    As you contemplate your summer reading, consider these recent books from Harvard Business School management scholars that can boost your career and improve on-the-ground management skills. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 15 May 2019
    • Research Event

    The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

    by Geoffrey G. Jones

    Geoffrey G. Jones reports on a business history conference studying the many shades of capitalism around the world and through time. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 26 Sep 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Shifting Centers of Gravity: Host Country versus Headquarters Influences on MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Inheritance

    by Prithwiraj Choudhury, Mike Horia Teodorescu, and Tarun Khanna

    This study compares how multinational corporation subsidiaries inherit knowledge from both the headquarters and the local context. To do so the authors analyzed seven years of data (2005–2011) of US patents filed by all subsidiaries of the top 25 US headquartered multinationals.

    • 15 Aug 2018
    • Book

    Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on Building Trust

    by Dina Gerdeman

    Legal and social institutions that support entrepreneurs often aren't well established in developing countries. Tarun Khanna's new book explains how businesses can make up for that by building trust. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 05 Dec 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

    by Sean Silverthorne

    Harvard Business School’s project exploring the evolution of business leadership in emerging economies has reached an important milestone. Project leaders Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna discuss what's been learned from the Creating Emerging Markets study so far. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 28 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 28

    Sean Silverthorne

    Countering misperceptions about negotiation 'BATNAs' ... A dairy cooperative’s battle with big brands ... 'Hub-and-spoke' flying versus 'out-and-back.'

    • 27 Feb 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

    by Sean Silverthorne

    Reputation and resilience are key ingredients that determine whether companies will survive tumultuous markets, according to a new paper by Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna, Cheng Gao, and Tiona Zuzul. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 23 Jan 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival

    by Cheng Gao, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones, and Tarun Khanna

    Why are some firms able to persistently survive challenging, uncertain, and underdeveloped business environments? To address this question, the authors utilize the HBS Creating Emerging Markets project―a novel collection of in-depth, publicly available video interviews conducted by HBS researchers with leaders of emerging market firms that have survived over decades and even centuries. Analyzing these interviews for the first time, the authors theorize that firm reputation is a key strategic driver, and outline how a favorable reputation allows a firm to more fully utilize its existing resources by decreasing uncertainty. They also show that reputation has offensive and defensive properties that make it valuable during both positive and negative economic cycles. Finally, the authors propose new ideas about how reputation facilitates survival and discuss why a reputation-based source of competitive advantage is hard to imitate.

    • 17 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 17

    Sean Silverthorne

    Should sales people be rewarded daily? ... How do firms survive long term in emerging markets? ... Entrepreneurs try to improve the mattress-buying experience.

    • 17 Nov 2016
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Building Affordable Health Care in Paradise

    Re: Tarun Khanna

    By some accounts, only about 5 percent of people worldwide receive cardiac treatment they need to survive. Professor Tarun Khanna highlights the need for affordable health care at scale, and a possible model based on factory-like repetition and learning in the Cayman Islands. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 08 Dec 2015
    • Research Event

    Research Trends Discussed at India and South Asia Conference

    by Dina Gerdeman

    Harvard Business School recently brought together scholars to discuss the business history and current research trends in India and South Asia. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 21 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

    by Carmen Nobel

    Raj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna examine the history of herbal patent applications, challenging a stereotype that characterizes Western firms as innovators and emerging markets as imitators. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 23 Dec 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

    by Michael Blanding

    A rule in China, which mandates publicly-traded company directors to explain their dissenting votes, provides Tarun Khanna and Juan Ma with rich data looking into the inner workings of how board members interact. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 26 Sep 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

    by Zeenat Potia

    Declining value of the rupee and soaring prices for onions are just two of the problems plaguing India. Professor Tarun Khanna explains the political and economic causes. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

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