Christopher A. Bartlett (born 1943) is an Australian organizational theorist, and Emeritus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, known for his work on multinational corporation and transnational management with Sumantra Ghoshal.
[1][2] Born in Australia, Bartlett obtained his BA in economics at the University of Queensland in 1964, and moved to the United States, where he obtained his MA in business administration from Harvard University, where in 1979 he also obtained his PhD in business administration.
[3] In 2002, Bartlett and Ghosal won the Award on Leadership and Corporate Governance from the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) for their article “Building Competitive Advantage Through People.”[4] In 2012, Bartlett won the European Case Clearing House (ecch) Award in the Economics, Politics and Business Environment category for his case with Carole Carlson, "United Cereal: Lora Brill's Eurobrand Challenge.
"[5] In 2013, he won again in the same category for "Levendary Café: The China Challenge" (coauthored with Arar Han).
[6] Bartlett's research interests are in the fields of "strategic and organizational challenges confronting managers in large, complex corporations, and on the organizational and managerial impact of transformational change.