Dean Bhaskar Chakravorti’s expertise is in global innovation, connecting business-building in emerging markets with geopolitical issues and corporate strategy for profitable, inclusive and sustainable growth. Bhaskar Chakravorti is Senior Associate Dean of International Business & Finance at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is the founding Executive Director of Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context (where “the World of Business Meets the World”), Professor of the Practice of International Business and Chair of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Working Group for Tufts T10. He also is Chair of the Council on Emerging Market Enterprises.
A former Partner of McKinsey, Distinguished Scholar at MIT’s Legatum Center and Harvard Business School faculty, he was a leader of McKinsey’s Innovation and Global Forces practices and taught innovation and entrepreneurship at Harvard; he was also a faculty associate of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. In a 20+ year career, he has advised CEOs, Boards and senior executives at over
30 companies in the Fortune 500 and worked across the Americas, EU, Asia and Africa, and multiple industries, high tech, life sciences, renewable energies and consumer. He has also worked at Monitor Group as a partner, Bellcore (formerly Bell Labs), University of Illinois, and the Tata Group.
His Amazon best-selling book, “The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World” was chosen among the year’s best business books by multiple publications. With over 60 articles in top-tier academic journals, multiple books and articles in widely-read media, e.g., Harvard Business Review, New York Times, WSJ, Financial Times, CNN, Foreign Affairs, CNBC; his interviews feature in BusinessWeek, The Economist, Fortune, WSJ, New York Times, BBC, FT, Fast Company, CNN, New Yorker, etc.
He speaks frequently on Public Radio, has a column on Huffington Post, CNN (Fareed Zakaria’s GPS) and the Indian Express and is a regularly invited speaker at global conferences, e.g. the World Economic Forum, The Economist, Bloomberg, the Milken Institute, as well as on Capitol Hill and to a US Presidential Task Force.