Bhaskar Chakravorti
Bhaskar Chakravorti is the Senior Associate Dean for International Business & Finance at The Fletcher School, Tufts_University. He is also Executive Director of Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC),[1] which houses the Master of International Business (MIB)[2] program and the research think-tank, the Center for Emerging Markets Enterprises[3] (CEME). Bhaskar also serves on the Fletcher faculty as Professor of Practice in International Business, and teaches innovation, entrepreneurship management, and strategic management.
Works
Dean Chakravorti's book, The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World[4] (Harvard Business School Press; 2003) has been influential in many client and policy recommendations. He has written over 40 articles in academic journals, multiple books, and widely-read publications.[5] He has also published over a dozen HBS case studies, a video HBS Faculty Seminar and authored two websites on innovation and on public safety. Bhaskar’s work is featured in multiple media. He has been invited to speak to audiences in business, academia, an advisory committee to the U.S. president, public policy-making bodies (e.g., FCC, Capitol Hill), multi-lateral entities (e.g., World Bank, ITU), futurist think- tanks (e.g., Aspen Institute, GBN), research, and the investor community.
Prior appointments
Prior to Fletcher, Dean Chakravorti was a Partner of McKinsey & Company and a Distinguished Scholar at MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. He was a leader of McKinsey's Innovation and Global Forces practices and served on the Firm’s Knowledge Services Committee. His prior appointments also include: Partner and Thought Leader at Monitor Group, the global strategy firm; game theorist and member of the technical staff at Bellcore (formerly, Bell Labs); assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; officer of TAS, the management cadre for the Tata Group, India's pre-eminent conglomerate.
Education
Bhaskar's economics PhD is from the University of Rochester where he was a University Fellow. He is a graduate of the Delhi School of Economics and has a bachelor’s in economics with honors from Delhi’s St. Stephen’s College.