Anirban Chatterjee Insights

Picture this. A CEO has just spent eighteen months and a considerable amount of money rolling out a new operational excellence programme. Training completed. Audits passed. Compliance rates above eighty percent. Everyone nodded in the right meetings. Six months later the numbers have barely moved and nobody can quite explain why. This paper explains why. And it does so with the kind of quiet confidence that only comes from having seen the same failure play out across hundreds

Most articles about biodiversity make you feel guilty within the first two paragraphs and completely overwhelmed by the third. This one does something different. It makes you feel like you are finally being let in on something important that nobody ever bothered to explain properly. What draws you in immediately is the tone. This is not a lecture. It reads more like a conversation with someone who genuinely loves this subject and cannot believe more people are not talking abo

Most reports about AI and healthcare follow a familiar script. Bold predictions. Impressive statistics. A roadmap that looks clean on paper and falls apart the moment someone tries to use it. This one, published by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group, is genuinely different and the difference shows up in the very first pages. What immediately stands out is that this report refuses to be impressed by its own subject matter. Yes, AI is transfo

You know that scene in every startup movie where the founder is standing in the middle of a chaotic office, phones ringing, people running past, and they just look completely lost? Tatiana Sandino, a professor at Harvard Business School, has basically written the manual for avoiding that moment. And the thing is, she does not start with a solution. She starts with something far more useful. She starts with the uncomfortable truth that most growing companies fall apart along e

Everyone seems to have an opinion on AI valuations right now. Most are either panicking or cheerleading. This piece from four INSEAD finance professors is neither, and that alone makes it worth reading. What stands out immediately is that this is not one voice with one verdict. Four faculty members each bring their own lens to the same question, and they do not always agree. That format keeps you engaged because you are not just reading a conclusion, you are watching smart pe

If you have ever sat through a transformation programme that promised everything and delivered a dashboard, this handbook will feel like a breath of fresh air. What immediately stands out is the tone, this is not a theoretical essay. It reads like advice from someone who has actually stood on a shop floor at 6 AM wondering why OEE numbers keep lying. The writing is direct, occasionally blunt, and refreshingly honest about where most organisations go wrong. The section on manu