Tarun Khanna Biography 
Tarun Khanna is an Indian-born American academic, writer and an economic strategist. He is currently the Jorge Paulo Lemann professor at Harvard Business School. As an author, his noted books are Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours (2008) and Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution (2010-Co-author). In 2007, he was nominated to be a young global leader (under 40) by the World Economic Forum. In 2009 he was elected as a fellow of the Academy of International Business. He holds a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard Business School.
Khanna was born in India, in 1968. He was brought up in India where he had his formal education. For higher studies, he moved to US during 1980’s. He completed BS program with a major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in the year 1988. Then he earned a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard Business School in 1993 and had an interim stint on Wall Street. Same year he started his career in teaching profession. He joined the HBS faculty as an associate professor of business administration, and later in 1998 became professor and a Novartis fellow. In 2004, he was appointed Jorge Paulo Lemann professor of economics.
He has served as the course head of the required 'strategy course' in the Harvard MBA program. He is the director of Harvard University's South Asia initiative since 2010. As a writer his first published book is ‘Foundations of Neural Networks’ published in the year 1990, followed by Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours and Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution (co-authored with Palepu, Krishna).
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Updated: September 27, 2017
