{"id":8694,"date":"2020-08-27T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2024-10-02T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T20:15:22","slug":"pranav-adani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2020\/08\/27\/pranav-adani\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You must have a larger purpose.&#8221; Pranav Adani leads through disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8697\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/alumni\/files\/2020\/08\/Pranav-Adani-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8697\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/08\/Pranav-Adani-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/files\/2020\/08\/Pranav-Adani-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pranav Adani (Questrom&#8217;99)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pranav Adani (Questrom\u201999) 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&#8217;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&#8217;s pandemic shutdowns. His approach to leadership? &#8220;You must be ambitious, hardworking, and empathetic,&#8221; he says. &#8220;You must have a larger purpose.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pranav Adani: business leadership during a pandemic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11405,"featured_media":8697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,390],"tags":[388,519,531,392,378,408,59],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2020\/08\/Pranav-Adani.jpg","agg_excerpt":"Pranav Adani: business leadership during a pandemic","agg_title":"An Adani Group director on change management","media_icon":"video-icon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8705,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}