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420

Overview

Tarun Khanna is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States, with a primary focus on the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research spans various subfields including Infectious Diseases, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The topics most frequently addressed in their work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Immune Responses and Vaccinations, COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing, and Mobile Health and mHealth Applications.

Tarun Khanna has contributed to multiple recent papers, covering interdisciplinary themes. Notable papers include:

  • "Is Hybrid Work the Best of Both Worlds? Evidence from a Field Experiment" (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Missense3D-DB web catalogue: an atom-based analysis and repository of 4M human protein-coding genetic variants" (2021, Human Genetics)
  • "A common TMPRSS2 variant has a protective effect against severe COVID-19" (2022, Current Research in Translational Medicine)
  • "Is Hybrid Work the Best of Both Worlds? Evidence from a Field Experiment" (2024, The Review of Economics and Statistics)
  • "Locational Investment Signals: How to Steer the Siting of New Generation Capacity in Power Systems?" (2020, The Energy Journal)

The frequent co-authors with whom Khanna has collaborated include:

  • Prithwiraj Choudhury
  • Michael J.E. Sternberg
  • Alessia David
  • Christos Makridis
  • Kyle Schirmann

Khanna's work has been widely published across a range of academic venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Lancet
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Academy of Management Proceedings

Their contributions reflect engagement with complex issues in health sciences and management, often intersecting epidemiology with behavioral economics and organizational studies. The research discusses themes relevant to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, addressing clinical research and public health policy aspects alongside digital health technologies.

Best Publications

  • Why Focused Strategies May Be Wrong for Emerging Markets

    Tarun Khanna;Krishna G. Palepu

  • IS GROUP AFFILIATION PROFITABLE IN EMERGING MARKETS? AN ANALYSIS OF DIVERSIFIED INDIAN BUSINESS GROUPS

    Tarun Khanna;Krishna G. Palepu

  • Do Firms Learn to Create Value? The Case of Alliances

    Bharat N. Anand;Tarun Khanna

  • The dynamics of learning alliances: competition, cooperation, and relative scope

    Tarun Khanna;Ranjay Gulati;Nitin Nohria

  • Estimating the performance effects of business groups in emerging markets

    Tarun Khanna;Jan W. Rivkin

  • Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Paragons or Parasites?

    Tarun Khanna;Yishay P. Yafeh

  • The Future of Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Long-Run Evidence From Chile

    Tarun Khanna;Krishna G. Palepu

  • Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution

    Tarun Khanna;Krishna G. Palepu

  • Negative emissions-Part 2 : Costs, potentials and side effects

    Sabine Fuss;William F Lamb;Max W Callaghan;Jérôme Hilaire

  • Strategies that fit emerging markets.

    Tarun Khanna;Krishna G. Palepu;Jayant Sinha

  • The Structure of Licensing Contracts

    Bharat N. Anand;Tarun Khanna

  • Emerging Giants: Building World-Class Companies in Developing Countries

    Tarun Khanna;Krishna G. Palepu

  • Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis

    Jan C Minx;William F Lamb;Max W Callaghan;Sabine Fuss

  • Emerging Giants: Building World-Class Companies in Emerging Markets

    Tarun Khanna;Krishna G. Palepu

  • The Nature of Diversified Business Groups: A Research Design and Two Case Studies

    Pankaj Ghemawat;Tarun Khanna

  • Business Groups and Risk Sharing Around the World

    Tarun Khanna;Yishay Yafeh

  • Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Investors, and Corporate Governance

    Tarun Khanna;Krishna Palepu

  • Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Intermediaries, and Corporate Governance

    Tarun Khanna;Krishna Palepu

  • Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances

    Ranjay Gulati;Tarun Khanna;Nitin Nohria

  • Bringing history (back) into international business

    Geoffrey Jones;Tarun Khanna

  • Policy Shocks, Market Intermediaries, and Corporate Strategy: The Evolution of Business Groups in Chile and India

    Tarun Khanna;Krishna G. Palepu

  • New frontiers in international strategy

    Joan Enric Ricart;Michael J Enright;Pankaj Ghemawat;Stuart L Hart

  • Business groups and social welfare in emerging markets: Existing evidence and unanswered questions

    Tarun Khanna

  • The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

    Krishna Palepu;Tarun Khanna

  • Business Groups and Risk Sharing around the World

    Yishay Yafeh;Tarun Khanna

Frequent Co-Authors

Krishna G. Palepu
Krishna G. Palepu Harvard University
Geoffrey Jones
Geoffrey Jones Harvard University
Raymond Fisman
Raymond Fisman Boston University
Yishay Yafeh
Yishay Yafeh Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ramana Nanda
Ramana Nanda Imperial College London
Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Jukka-Pekka Onnela Harvard University
David E. Bloom
David E. Bloom Harvard University
Thomas D'Aunno
Thomas D'Aunno New York University
Shane Greenstein
Shane Greenstein Harvard University
Barbara E. Bierer
Barbara E. Bierer Brigham and Women's Hospital

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