Contractor is a professor in the management and global business department at Rutgers Business School. He has researched foreign direct investment for three decades and also taught at the Wharton School, Copenhagen Business School, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Nanyang Technological University, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, and other schools, and conducted executive seminars in the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. He produces a blog on unbiased perspectives on global business issues.