Dr. Amitav Chakravarti

Biography

Professor Amitav Chakravarti is a noted academic at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), specializing in Marketing. He has previously been an Associate Professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and has held positions at various prestigious institutions including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, Johnson School of Management at Cornell University, and the University of California, Riverside. Professor Chakravarti received his BA in Economics from the University of Bombay, his MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in New Delhi, and a PhD from the University of Florida. His research has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of Consumer Research. He was awarded the inaugural Google-WPP Marketing Research Award and the Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Young Scholar Award for his contributions to the marketing field. He teaches marketing, management, and psychology to a wide range of students, including undergraduate and graduate students and executive education participants from organizations like Accenture and Google. Moreover, he is known for co-authoring the book "GO & STOP Signals: Consumers (Don’t) Buy" published by Palgrave Macmillan, exploring consumer insights and behavior.

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