Arindam Bhattacharya is a senior advisor of Boston Consulting Group and an alumni fellow of BCG Henderson Institute, the firm’s think tank which he co-founded and previously served as director.
Based in Delhi, he formerly led BCG India, co-founded BCG’s Global Advantage practice, and served on the global leadership teams of several BCG practices, including Social Impact, Industrial Goods, and Public Sector. He now serves as an independent director for several companies, including Bajaj Finance, and he advises startups, large companies and governments on many of the ideas covered in The Fractal Company. Also, he is Honorary Industrial Fellow at Warwick University’s Warwick Manufacturing Group.
Arindam is co-author of two books: Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything (Grand Central/Business Plus, 2008), which was ranked among the best business books of the year by the Economist; and Beyond Great: Nine Strategies for Thriving in an Era of Social Tensions, Economic Nationalism, and Technological Revolution (Public Affairs, 2021). Also, he has written for Harvard Business Review, and contributed opinion columns to a variety of journals, including Fortune magazine, the Financial Express, the Economic Times, and the Business Standard.
Arindam has a BA degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, and an MSc and PhD in manufacturing and engineering from the University of Warwick.
Hans-Paul Bürkner is global chair emeritus of Boston Consulting Group, having previously served as president and chief executive officer from 2004-2012—BCG’s fifth and the first from Europe.
Based in Frankfurt, he has, for the past four decades, advised the leaders of some of the world’s largest companies, helping them adapt to change by redefining their strategies, conducting global expansion initiatives, and undertaking fundamental transformation. Based in Frankfurt, he continues to travel extensively, meeting leaders in the 46 countries where BCG operates around the world.
Named one of the world’s Top 25 consultants by Consulting magazine in 2003, Hans-Paul has written extensively on leadership, change management, corporate strategy, and technology; and he has contributed to a variety of publications, including Fortune magazine and Handelsblatt.
Hans-Paul has a diploma in business, economics and Chinese from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, an MA in development economics from Yale University, and a DPhil in social sciences from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Simon Targett is a writer, journalist, historian, and editorial consultant. Based in London, he was Associate Editor of the Financial Times before becoming BCG’s first editor-in-chief. He is now founder and director of Thinking Cap Communications, an editorial consultancy.
He has been the collaborative writer on a series of business books—including Profit From The Source: Transforming Your Business By Putting Suppliers At The Core (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) and The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating The Newly Affluent in China and India (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012).
As well as business writing, Simon serves as a part-time history tutor at Oxford University's Department of Continuing Education. He is co-author of New World Inc.: The Making of America by England’s Merchant Adventurers (Little Brown, 2018; Atlantic Books, 2019). He has written not only for the Financial Times but also the Economist, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe, among other publications.
He has a PhD in history from Cambridge University.
