Big companies have competed on scale for a century, but they are losing ground to smaller firms that can respond with precision to the needs of local customers.
Education
- PhD, manufacturing and engineering, University of Warwick
- MSc, manufacturing and engineering, University of Warwick
- MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- BA, engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Arindam Bhattacharya is a Senior Advisor and a BCG Henderson Institute Alumni Fellow.
Previously, Arindam led BCG in India, was a member of the global leadership team of BCG’s Industrial Goods practice and led the Industrial Goods practice in India. He was also the co-leader of BCG’s Global Advantage Initiative and a co-founder and Director of the BCG Henderson Institute.
Arindam has worked extensively as a consultant and as a researcher. He focuses on portfolio and growth strategy, and the competitiveness of industrial companies. He has worked with India’s central and state governments on a variety of topics covering both policy development (supporting a planning commission on development of a five-year plan for Indian industry) and transformation of large public systems to drive outcome (transformation of state school systems in Haryana and Rajasthan).
Arindam was a member of Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) National Council for many years. He is member of International Advisory Council of Oxford India Center for Sustainable Development, Oxford University; a member of the International Advisory Board at the School of Public Policy, University of California San Diego; and a member of the advisory board and several expert committees set up by the government of India.
He is a coauthor of the 2008 book “Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything,” which tells the story of a new era of international business competition—one in which global companies that grew up in rapidly developing economies are challenging the big, developed-country corporations that have been the globalization leaders for the last two decades.
Arindam is also a coauthor of BCG’s book, “ Beyond Great,” which describes how the world has been transformed due to social tension, economic nationalism, and technological revolution. Business leaders are encouraged to go beyond great and “adopt a radical new playbook—one that helps their companies become resilient in the face of even the most volatile situations.”
