Ankush Chopra

Ankush Chopra

Assistant Professor at Babson College

Greater Boston Area

Current
  • Assistant Professor of Business Strategy at Babson College
Past
  • Doctoral Candidate at Duke University, Fuqua School of business
  • Managing Director at Catalyst Ventures
  • Asia Project Manager and Asia Finance Manager at P&G

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Education
  • Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
  • Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
  • Hindu College, Delhi University
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Ankush Chopra’s Summary

Ankush Chopra is a strategy expert who has held corporate, consulting, and academic positions in the areas of finance and strategy. He has 15 years of business experience as a manager, consultant, and business thinker in Asia and America. He is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Babson College.

As a professor and business thinker, Chopra works on strategic issues around innovation by established firms. These issues include challenges of innovation, innovation strategy, profiting from innovation, and transforming business and organization in the face of major changes. His paper “Survival” achieved the honor of publication in best paper proceedings of Academy of Management’s Best paper Proceedings. He has presented his research at forums such as Duke University, Academy of Management, and Babson College to name a few. He has also reviewed for major academic journals including Strategic Management Journal, and Academy of Management. He has developed frameworks for innovation strategy, for responding to innovation, and for whitespace expansion opportunities.

Ankush worked with Procter & Gamble, Citibank and Reliance Industries across several businesses in the areas of strategy and finance. He led custodial services business for Citibank in India where he turned around the business in the face of a major industry change. He also led the transformation of Citibank India’s financial control department that included revamping the entire business reporting systems for local, regional and global audience. His contributions at Procter & Gamble included enabling a large-scale organizational transformation involving setting up of a shared services organization and parts of business intelligence units.

As a consultant, Ankush advised companies in Asia and America on strategic issues including entry strategy into new businesses, business growth, business model changes, and white space expansion.

Ankush Chopra’s Specialties:

Ankush earned a Ph.D. in Business Strategy from Duke University and an MBA from Indian Institute of management. He has lived and worked in India, Singapore, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States. He has managed large multicultural and multi functional teams with members from over 10 countries. He has trained small and large groups of managers at various levels of organizations in several countries


Ankush Chopra’s Education

  • Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

    20032007

  • Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

    MBA , Management , 19931995

  • Hindu College, Delhi University

    B.Com (H) , 19901993


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Ankush Chopra’s Groups:

  •    P&G Alumni Network Association
  •    IIMB Alumni Association
  •    Indian Institute of Management (IIM)
  •    Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business MBA Alumni
  •    Citi India Group
  •    Reliance Industries Limited Group (Including Alumni)
  •    Hindu College Alumni Association, Delhi University
  •    Montfort School Alumni

Ankush Chopra’s Honors:

Paper titled [Business] Survival was published in the best paper proceedings at the Academy of Managerment 2005 (Honolulu, Hawaii). The award is reserved for the top 10% of all papers.


Ankush Chopra’s Contact Settings

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  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
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