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.
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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.
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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.
