Professor Chaudhuri is the Dean, Centre for Economic Research & Advanced Studies at IIPM (The Indian Institute of Planning & Management, New Delhi), which is ranked amongst the top business schools of India. In the year 1996, Professor Chaudhuri founded Planman Consulting, which has become one of the fastest growing Management Consulting Firms in Asia and the largest Indian multinational management consulting firm. With branches in Asia, Europe and America, it provides consulting solutions to leading Fortune 500 companies.
His book ‘Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch’ and ‘The Great Indian Dream’ has created a new benchmarks in India being the No.1 best seller. In his book “The Great Indian Dream” he clearly explains that “survival of the fittest” is an animalistic term and vouches for “Survival of the Weakest” as the guiding force for the next millennium and calls it a human way of living. As a management consultant himself, he specializes in the areas of Strategic Vision, Leadership, Social Sector Consulting, Comparative Management Techniques and Global Opportunities & Threat Analysis and has been conducting workshops exclusively for CEOs, MDs, Directors and Presidents from the corporate sector.. His contribution to the field of management studies can be found in the iconoclastic “Theory ‘i’ Management” which he has developed for India Inc., an India centric management idea with global applicability.
He himself has also been conducting workshops, seminars and lecture tours on Comparative Management Techniques worldwide jointly with internationally renowned consultants and academicians from International Labour Organization at Geneva, UN Security Council, Geneva, IMD Lausanne, Webster University, Geneva, INSEAD and International Management Institute, Belgium. As a celebrated speaker he is regularly invited to speak at various annual conferences and national conventions. He also happens to be highest paid speaker in the country. An economist by passion and education, during Bill Clinton’s historic visit to India in 2001 he launched his ‘Great Indian Dream -: India can beat America’, a series of seminars for every Indian.
His outstanding ability lies in is his strength to integrate macro and micro economic concepts with both strategic management techniques as well as personnel management techniques employed in organizations.