Profile 083 · published 3 August 2026
Tarun
Khanna
Leading Emerging Markets Scholar. Entrepreneur. Bridge Between Business Worlds. · Harvard Business School
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“The UAE turned the logic of emerging markets on its head. Usually markets emerge slowly. Dubai emerged in a.”
Tarun Khanna · Leading Emerging Markets Scholar. Entrepreneur. Bridge Between Business Worlds.
Biography
single generation." Tarun Khanna is one of the world's leading scholars of emerging markets. Born in New Delhi in 1967, he is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, a pioneer of entrepreneurship education and emerging market research. His books have shaped how businesses and policymakers understand growth in the developing world.
## Reshaping Emerging Market Theory
His scholarship challenged the assumption that China and India are the only emerging market stories worth telling and his work on institutional voids — the gaps that constrain growth in developing countries — has been particularly influential.
## Uae As Emerging Market Exemplar
Khanna has cited the UAE as one of the most instructive cases of deliberate institutional design for entrepreneurial success — a country that consciously built the legal, commercial, and physical infrastructure that entrepreneurs need. contributions to understanding how nations build conditions for entrepreneurial flourishing and for recognising the UAE as one of the most instructive examples of how deliberate institutional design can transform an economy.
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