Pranav Adani (Questrom’99) is a director at the Adani Group, an India-based conglomerate with operations in energy, resources, agribusiness, and more. Here, Adani explains how the company’s workforce, some of whom manage critical infrastructure and supply chains, kept essential goods and services such as cooking gas and packaged foods moving at the height of India’s pandemic shutdowns. His approach to leadership? “You must be ambitious, hardworking, and empathetic,” he says. “You must have a larger purpose.”