Nirmalya Kumar
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Nirmalya Kumar at SPJIMR Academic Conclave 2011, Mumbai
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| Born | 8 March 1960 |
| Education | M. Com, MBA, Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | Calcutta University, Shivaji University, University of Illinois at Chicago, Kellogg School of Management in Northwestern University |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Organization | Singapore Management University |
Nirmalya Kumar (born 8 March 1960) was a London Business School professor. He also served on many Boards of Directors of Indian firms including ACC Limited and Zensar Technologies.
Kumar was educated at La Martiniere Calcutta school, and received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Calcutta University in 1980, and his Master of Commerce degree from Shivaji University in 1983. In 1986, he completed his MBA at the University of Illinois at Chicago and in 1991, received his Ph.D in Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management in Northwestern University.
Professor of Marketing at Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. Kumar was until recently a member-group executive council at Tata Sons. He wrote a blog post on being fired from this role. Before this, he was a Professor of Marketing and Director of Aditya Birla India Centre at London Business School.
He previously served on the faculty of Harvard Business School, IMD-International Institute for Management Development (Switzerland), and Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
He has authored seven books on marketing and business-related topics. He is notable for proposing the culture of "3Vs": valued customer, value proposition and value network, explained in his book Marketing as Strategy: Understanding the CEO's Agenda for Driving Growth and Innovation. He appears on the lists of Thinkers50, World's Best B-School Professors, and 50 Most Influential Business School Professors. In 2011, he received the Global Village Award by Thinkers50 for the person who contributed most to the business community's understanding of globalization and the new frontiers established by emerging markets. In 2012, he received an honorary fellowship from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
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