Rabikar Chatterjee is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh. His teaching, research, and consulting interests are in the area of customer-focused product/service development, particularly in high-tech and/or engineered products and services. He is an associate editor in the Marketing department of Management Science and a member of the Editorial Board of Marketing Science, two of the leading journals for quantitative research in marketing.

Professor Chatterjee’s has a PhD from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has also taught at Purdue University, the University of Michigan, and at the Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney (as visiting professor).

Prior to his career in academia, he worked in the Indian Industry for eight years, in engineering, project management, sales management, marketing, and strategic planning positions, at Larsen & Toubro Limited, Tega Industries, and Chloride India Limited. He has also consulted with companies on product development and management issues, and conducted in-company workshops on related topics.

Professor Chatterjee has received the Katz Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition of outstanding teaching in the MBA program. He has taught extensively in executive programs, including the Executive MBA program at the Katz Business School and in various non-degree programs in the USA and overseas. He received merit scholarships at both IIT and IIM, and a University Fellowship at the Wharton School.