Abhirup Chakrabarti

Desautels Faculty of Management

Strategy and Organization

 

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Courses

MGPO 669 Managing Globalization

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PhD Duke University, Business Administration
MSc National University of Singapore, Management
BSc University of Calcutta, Economics (Honours)

 

Abhirup Chakrabarti joined McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management in 2007. Dr. Chakrabarti graduated from Duke University with a PhD degree in Business Administration, and has previously attended Presidency College Calcutta, the Indian Statistical Institute Delhi, and the National University of Singapore.

Dr. Chakrabarti conducts research in the area of Strategic Management. His current research explores how firms make expansion related decisions, and how they manage the process of change associated with business growth. He is currently involved in projects that (i) explore the importance of spatial geography in mergers and acquisitions, and (ii) examine growth strategies of emerging market firms. His work has appeared in the Strategic Management Journal and in Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions; and has featured in the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, and Strategic Management Society meetings.

At McGill, Dr. Chakrabarti teaches Managing Globalization at the B.Com. and MBA levels, and Organization Growth and Acquisitions Strategy at the executive level. He has previously taught Competitive Strategy to undergraduate students at Duke University, Applied Econometrics to PhD students at the National University of Singapore, and International Business to undergraduate students at McGill University.