Tarun Khanna

Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University

About

I am a Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, and have been a member of the faculty since 1993, where I study, and work with, multinational and indigenous companies and investors in emerging markets worldwide. I have served as course head of the required Strategy course in the Harvard MBA program, and chaired the executive education program on Strategy, Leadership & Governance. Currently, I teach in Harvard’s comprehensive general management executive education programs. I earned Bachelors of Science in Engineering degree from Princeton University in 1988, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1993. Specialties: diasporas, economic development, emerging markets, globalization, international business, strategy

Experience

  • Director at The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University
    Sep 2010 - Present · 16 yrs 3 mos

  • Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School
    May 2004 - Present · 22 yrs 7 mos

  • Co-Founder at Aspire Institute
    2017 – Present

  • Advisor at Green Frontier Capital
    2022 – Present

  • Member Board of Directors at InMobi
    2019 – Present