Tarun Khanna
Tarun Khanna
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor
| Unit | Strategy |
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| Contact | (617) 495-6038 Send E-Mail |
| Interests | diasporas, economic development, emerging markets, globalization, international business, strategy, more > |
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Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he has studied and worked with multinational and indigenous companies and investors in emerging markets worldwide. He joined the faculty in 1993, after obtaining an engineering degree from Princeton University (1988) and a Ph.D. from Harvard (1993), and an interim stint on Wall Street. During this time, he has served as the head of several courses on strategy, corporate governance, and international business targeted to MBA students and senior executives at Harvard. He currently teaches in Harvard's executive education programs and is Faculty Chair for HBS activities in India.
Featured Work
Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours
By Tarun Khanna, published by HBS Press in January 2008, (Penguin Books in India and South Asia)
Read an excerpt here.
Western concerns about the rise of China and India are raising alarms today, much as they were fifty years ago. China and India currently operate in the global economy as mirror images of each other—one favors multinationals over indigenous private companies, the other advantages its locals and shuns foreigners. In a book soon to be published by Harvard Business School Publishing, HBS Professor Tarun Khanna explores the likely evolution of the Chinese and Indian models and the implications for the world in four settings—China and the world, India and the world, Chinese and Indian mutual relations, and the view from the developed world. And just as hysteria and protectionism proved unwarranted half a century ago, Khanna argues that the rise of China and India is again an opportunity for profit and hope.
Can India Overtake China?
By Tarun Khanna and Yasheng Huang, Foreign Policy, July - August 2003
What’s the fastest route to economic development? Welcome foreign direct investment (FDI), says China, and most policy experts agree.
But a comparison with long-time laggard India suggests that FDI is not the only path to prosperity. Indeed, India’s homegrown entrepreneurs may give it a long-term advantage over a China hamstrung by inefficient banks and capital markets.
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Globalization and Similarities in Corporate Governance: A Cross-Country Analysis
by Tarun Khanna (Harvard Business School), Krishna Palepu (Harvard Business School), and Joseph Kogan (Esquela de Administración, Pontifica Universidad, Católica de Chile, and Lehman Brothers)
Some scholars have argued that globalization should pressure firms to adopt the most efficient form of corporate governance; others maintain that such convergence will not occur because of path dependence. We find robust evidence that economically interdependent countries have similar corporate governance laws protecting stakeholders. In contrast, we find virtually no relationship between corporate governance practices and globalization in a battery of estimations at the country, industry, and firm levels. We conclude that globalization may have induced the adoption of some common corporate governance standards but these standards may not have been implemented.
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