Debashis Chatterjee's teaching career spans over twenty years across six continents of the world. He has taught leadership classes at Harvard University, has served as professor at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) at Lucknow and Kozhikode and is a founding Fellow of the Centre for Leadership and Human Values at IIM, Kolkata. He has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship twice for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral work at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.