Prof. Dheeraj Sharma

 Prof. Dheeraj Sharma is Director, Indian Institute of Management-Rohtak. In experience of over twenty years, he has taught at numerous educational institutions in Europe, Asia, and North America. Prof. Sharma has a doctoral degree in business administration with a major in marketing strategy and a double minor in psychology and quantitative analysis from Louisiana Tech University, USA. He has been recognized a global thought leader for 2019 & 2022 by Academy of Global Business Advancement, USA. He was also recognized as turnaround man for turning around organization by outlook magazine in 2020. He is a member of who’s who of American professionals and who’s who in the world. Prof. Sharma is past Associate Editor of the Journal of Marketing Channels. He is past editor of the Academy of Marketing Science proceedings and the Academy of Marketing Science Cultural Perspectives. He is an active member of the Academy of Marketing Science, American Marketing Association, and National Conference of Sales Management. Currently, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Emerging Economies Case Journal. Prof. Sharma continues serve/has served with several organization listed below in various capacities: 1) Board Member, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel National Police Academy, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India 2) Member, Economic Advisory Council, Government of Haryana 3) Ex-Officio Director, Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam Limited 4) Member, Academic Advisory Committee, NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council), Ministry of Education, Government of India 5) Board Member, IRCTC (PSU under the aegis of Ministry of Railway) 6) Board member, Alkem Laboratories Ltd (Fourth Largest Pharma Company in India) 7) Board member, NABARD consultancy services (Consultancy Arm of NABARD). 8) Visitor’s nominee to Tezpur University. Hon’ble President of India, in his capacity as Visitor of Tezpur University, has nominated him as his nominee for Tezpur University. 9) Member on Standing Committee of UGC, for Specification of Degrees. 10) Honorary Member of the Faculty of Commerce & Business, University of Delhi. 11) Honorary Advisor, Department of Prisons, Government of Punjab 12) Honorary Professor, Jawahar Lal Nehru University 13) External Member of Academic Council, NITIE Mumbai (National Institute of Industrial Engineering) Prof. Sharma has over 150 articles published in reputable databases, journals and conference proceedings. Prof. Sharma’s publications have appeared and/or are accepted for publication in Advances in Marketing, Developments in Marketing, Business and Society Review, European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Journal of Marketing Channels, Journal of Marketing Education, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Product and Brand Management, Journal of International Business Strategy, Marketing Management Journal, New Technology, Work and Employment, among other prominent publications. In addition, Prof. Sharma has written several cases. Prof. Sharma has authored ten books in various domains of management such as Principles of Marketing, B2B Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, Global Marketing, Managing Millennial Workforce, and Not for Profit Marketing. Prof. Sharma’s work in the public policy domain is well recognized. He has served as consultant or in advisory roles with Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of Gujarat, Govt. of Punjab, and Govt. of Delhi. He has consulted or conducted training programs for a large number of multinational companies, national companies, and various “governments of India” organizations. Prof. Sharma specifically dealt with several issues related to occupational stress, attrition, force motivation issues, ethical issues, performance management issues, optimization of retail channels, branding, and perception management issues, Public Private Partnership issues, and issues related to developing strategic response to challenging situations among other important areas. Prof. Sharma made considerable contribution to IRCTC in developing marketing strategies for alternative revenue streams by appropriate marketing of railway products such as food services, rail neer, insurance, tourism among others. As a former member of board of Milkfed, Prof Sharma was part of the team that developed expansion strategy of Milkfed’s marketing and distribution network to different states and abroad and brand development of Milkfed. As a member of Alkem board, Prof Sharma continued to be actively involved in company’s risk management strategies, HR, and branding strategies. As a member of NABARD consultancy board, Prof Sharma is actively involved in guiding the organizing developing new areas for revenue generation. Prof. Sharma has been involved in consulting projects or/and executive training with several multinational corporations such as, He has conducted/participated in training programs and engaged in consulting assignment(s) with Apollo hospitals, ICI Paints, Duncan Holdings LLC, Fortis healthcare, Globe Rangers LLC, Hero Cycles Ltd, First Merchants Bank of America, Ambuja Cements, Mahindra and Mahindra, Tata Motors, Tata Teleservices Ltd, Tata Housing, Exide batteries, Central Warehousing Corporation, Life Insurance Company, Employee State Insurance Corporation, PGIMER, Institute of Kidney Disease and Research (BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad), UN Mehta institute of Cardiology (BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad), Vodafone, Alkem Pharma, Zydus Pharma, Watson Pharma, Colgate Palmolive, KPMG, Price Waterhouse Cooper, JK Fenner, Bajaj Auto, Cadbury, Punjab Milkfed among others. His expert views have been cited in many major internationals newspapers including Business Standard, Economic Times, EU Reporter, Times of India, DNA, The Tribune, The Hindu, Asian Age, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette, National Post, CTV National News, among others. He is continues to be a keynote speaker on marketing strategy, branding, employee motivation, ethics, and international marketing in North America, Europe, and