Bhaskar Chakravorti is Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and the founding Executive Director of Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context. A former Partner of McKinsey, Distinguished Scholar at MIT and Harvard Business School faculty, he was a leader of McKinsey’s Innovation and Global Forces practices and taught innovation and entrepreneurship at Harvard. In a 20+ year career, he has advised over 30 companies in the Fortune 500 and worked across multiple geographies: the Americas, EU, Asia and Africa. 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.
Community Insights
Why Facebook’s New Privacy Cop Will Fail
The world’s largest social media company must have an independent monitor, as a result of a federal privacy settlement. But the monitor will lack the authority to have meaningful impact, argues the Dean of Global Business at Tufts.
Community Insights
Five Ways for Facebook to Help its Next Billion Users
The emerging Asian, African, and Latin American markets, the "Digital South," will be the source of Facebook’s growth. But Facebook needs a proactive, context-aware strategy for tackling the mushrooming fake news problem in the region. The author has five suggestions.
Business
Who’s Afraid of a Digital Planet?
Harnessing technology can serve big unmet needs of people and the planet — without adding to the mess — but real progress will require a greater commitment from the private sector.
Who’s Afraid of the Digital Planet?
Description: It’s the world’s biggest crisis and challenge —bringing the other three billion into the global economy. How can we do it? What happens if we fail? The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. Speakers: Shumeet Banerji, Condorcet | Mike Froman, Mastercard Moderator: Bhaskar Chakravorti, The Fletcher School at Tufts University (Transcription […]
Africa
Africa: The Final Frontier
With over a billion people, 12 million square miles and seven out of ten of the world’s fastest growing economies, Africa is poised for paradigm-shifting growth. Mobile technology has become the continent’s top economic force, laying the groundwork for economic opportunity and connectivity. The people are ready. Is the world? Bhaskar Chakravorti of Tufts University, Alitheia Capital's 'Tokunboh Ishmael, CP-Africa's Nmachi Jidenma, Gary Rieschel of Qiming Venture Partners, and Visa's Hannes van Rensburg discuss at Techonomy 2012. The session is moderated by James Manyika of McKinsey & Company.
Conferences
Techonomy 18
Techonomy 2018 was a probing, wide-ranging conversation about the tech-inflected issues that affect business and our world. This year’s theme was Harnessing Tech for Responsible Growth, and as always we addressed many of the issues facing leaders today.
Conferences
Techonomy 12
Techonomy focuses on how the exponential pace of technology progress makes possible a new world. A wave of accelerating change driven by technology’s advance is washing over our lives, bringing great potential for business and social progress.
