Rajesh VermaRajesh Verma is Sr. Dean and Professor of Strategy & Marketing at Mittal School of Business (NIRF Rank #34), Lovely Professional University, Punjab (India). His research & teaching interests entails areas like Business Models, Strategic Management & olitical Marketing. He is a MBA from Utkal University, Bhubaneshwar (Orissa), Ph.D from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla (HP) & has done an Executive Programme from IIM, Lucknow. He is also a Wiley Certified Design Thinking Practitioner and being a passionate trainer, he has conducted several training programmes on design thinking, selling skills, changing business models, brand building and customer orientation etc. for corporates like Indian Oil, Radington, TT Consultants etc. He has acted as resource person in more than 60 faculty training programmes focusing on new age teaching pedagogies, research, case writing etc. apart from being a regular speaker in national & international conferences. Being an avid learner himself, he has attended more than 50 relevant training & courses for continuous learning. He is recipient of Research Appreciation Award from Ms. Smriti Zubin Irani, Hon’ble Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India. He has also received Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) from University Grant Commission (UGC) of India and other research grants from UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI); European Commission; and Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India. As ingenious researcher & writer, he has published 20 business case studies, 60+ research papers in Journals and 06 research papers/chapters in refereed edited books. He has authored 2 books and had edited 5 books. He has guided 7 Ph.D and 10 M.Phil research students. On different academic & administrative assignments he has travelled to countries like UK, Spain, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Thailand & Dubai. Read More Read Less