Prof. Sanjiv Marwah all set to return as Director, JK Business School

• January 24, 2015 / admin

New Delhi, 24th January 2015: Noted academician and recipient of Rashtriya Gaurav Shiksha Puraskar (2014), Dr. SanjivMarwah will be taking over as Director of JK Business School (JKBS). Dr. Marwah, who has held this prestigious appointment earlier, will be returning to the JK fraternity after a gap of 5 years, during which he raised the Era Business Schoolas its Founder Director.

“It is like homecoming for me,” says Prof. Marwah, confirming his return to JK Business School. “JKBS is a part of the prestigious JK conglomerate, and has all that it takes to be amongst the elite B-schools of the country. The time I’ve spent away from JKBS has allowed me to introspect on the path we should take to catapult JKBS to an even higher position.”

An industry-veteran-turned-academician, Dr. Marwah is widely regarded for his ability to bridge industry-academia skill gap. His corporate career spanned the 90’s, and was majorly with DCM and Onida. He shifted to academia in the late nineties, and after his PhD has held leadership position in a varied set of institutions; including a University professing 10 professional disciplines. His international associations includeLincolnshire and Humberside University, U.K., Thames Valley University, U.K., University of Bedfordshire, U.K., Singapore Management University, Singapore, Kathmandu School of Management, Nepal, Philadelphia University (USA), Sichuan University, China, and Skyline University, Sharjah.

“Dr. Marwah’s contribution during his first stint as Director,JK Business School, was remarkable,” says Abhishek Singhania, Vice Chairman JK Education Foundation. “He understood the burgeoning needs of corporate Gurgaon and ensured that the pedigree of management graduates passing out from the institute matched the industry requirements. He has the pulse of the industry, and it is great to have him back at the helm of affairs at JKBS.”An avid researcher, Dr. Marwah’s work has been published in almost every prestigious journal. He has a book on Project Management (2013) that is widely referred to by Industry and academia. He is currently working on a much-anticipated second book on the subject of Customer Satisfaction. His Student’s Handbook on Research Methodology, for University Postgraduate and M.Phil students, was published in 2009 and found wide acceptance. Earlier he had also brought out a handbook on “Insurance Marketing” in 2005, for the students of AIMA.

Dr. Marwah is often published and quoted in a variety of media. Some of these articles are ‘Relationship Effort’ (2004), ‘Head Office is also Responsible’ (2004), ‘Employee-the CRM Initiator’ (2004), ‘Salesmanship in Insurance’ (2004), ‘Internal marketing’ (2003), ‘Relationship Marketing’ (2003), ‘Where is the Customer?’ (2003) and ‘Customer Relationship Management in Insurance’ (2002).

About JK Business School

Raised in 2006, JKBS is well-known for being a favoured recruiting ground for MNC’s and Indian Conglomerates operation or looking to operate in Gurgaon. JK Business School is known to have been amongst the first B-schools in the Delhi-NCR region to recognise the dual potential of Gurgaon; both as a viable option to Mumbai as the Indian Business Capital, and a challenge to Bangalore as the IT hub of the country. Over the years, some of the largest Corporations, particularly MNC’s, have chosen to headquarter themselves in Gurgaon, making JK Business School’s industry interface amongst the best in http://businesstoday.intoday.in/debatelist/168/1/b-school-debate.htmlthe country. JKBS has been incessantly working towards equipping the future managers and developing business leaders capable of responding to challenges in the emerging markets. JKBS sources a majority of its strong faculty base from IIMs, IITs who have considerable exposure to the industry.