NICMAR Business School

Dr. Avinash Purandare is B.E. (Industrial and Production Engineering), M.B.A. (Marketing), UGC -NET (Marketing), P.G.D.F.T. (International Business), M.I.E. Chartered Engineer, Ph.D. (Marketing). He is a Gold Medalist in International Business from Pune University.

His teaching expertise is in the areas of Marketing Management, International Business Management and Supply Chain Management. He teaches over 10 different subjects in these three areas. He has over 32 years of total experience.

I, Dr. Darshan A. Mahajan hold a bachelor’s degree in economics and Master degrees such as Master in Computer Management, Master in Business Studies, PGDBM from Savitribai Phule Pune University. I completed my doctoral degree from Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth in management. I have professional experience of 17+ years in Teaching, Training, Academic Administration. I teach courses in Information Technology. My research work includes Information Technology and Management area.

Dipayan Roy is a faculty of NICMAR Business School and is currently the programme director of Integrated MBA. He is a Fellow of Indian Institute of Management Indore. His teaching expertise lies in the area of Finance, Statistics, Spreadsheet Modelling, Project Finance and Quantitative Finance. His research interests comprise areas of Financial Modelling, Business Methods, Quantitative Techniques, Analytics, Efficiency Analysis. He has published papers in Journals of Repute and has received awards for best research papers at various conferences.

Joined NICMAR in 1995. Currently working as Professor at NICMAR Business School. Was ranking Indian Construction, Construction Equipment and Material Manufacturing Companies from 2001 onwards. From 2003 till last year Construction World, a Magazine, was giving award for the top companies from the list. Was resource person for Infrastructure Awards given to construction projects by CNBC TV (Channel E18) which was conducted on March 25, 2009 (for 2009) and March 18, 2010 (for 2010). Authored 3 books and several research papers. He is a member of consultants of Asian Development Bank, Manila.

Dr. Pallavi Nimbalwar is an academician with a background in Communication and soft skills training. She has a PhD in English Literature and an M.Phil. in Applied Linguistics from Department of English, SP University, Gujarat. Also, she holds a certification in Digital Marketing and Communications from Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad.

Her interest areas are Ecofeminism, Translation Studies; Equity and Inclusion; Computational Linguistics and Attention Computing. Her Research work is led through Deconstruction and Postcolonial theories that she uses as lenses while operationalizing her research. Business Communication; Managerial Communication; Technical Writing; Written and Analytical Communication; Literature and Management Communication; Professional Ethics are some of the courses that she engages.

Dr. Soumi Rai is an MBA (HR) with a Doctorate in Management from Symbiosis International University. She has 23 years of professional experience in corporate and academia, in the domains of HR consulting and People management. She is a researcher in the field of leadership, gender, generation and cross-cultural issues. Dr. Rai has worked on prestigious assignments, including with Social Research Centre (WZB) Germany and University of Ljubljana, and her research work has been published across reputed publications.

A gold medalist at the undergraduate level, Dr Vandana Bhavsar holds a postgraduate degree in Economics with a specialization in econometrics. She acquired her Ph.D. in Economics in 2009. Her research involves works on gender budgeting, public expenditure, economic issues in construction, housing prices, and digitalization in construction. She has published her research articles in various ABDC/Scopus-indexed journals. Her contribution to the field of teaching was recognized with Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015.

Dr. Vikas Prasad holds a Doctoral degree in ERP, MPhil (CS) and dual Master’s Degree in Computer Applications and Operations Management. As a practitioner academician he has worked as SAP techno-functional consultant on more than dozen ERP projects and has worked for academic institutions of international and national repute. His area of interests includes ERP, Data analytics, Machine Learning, Power BI, Tableau, Project Management Software and Construction digitalization.