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Faculty Profiles

Dr. Sweta Tripati

Ph.D., MBA (Finance), Director

Dr. Sweta Tripati has been associated with Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore, since November 1, 1994. She took over as Director on November 1, 2008. Prior to which she has served in Nagpur Doordarshan, Admas Advertising Company, Nagpur and Gajra Bevel Gears, Dewas. She has been involved in teaching Financial Services, International Finance and others finance oriented subjects/courses at Postgraduate level to the students of management. She has studied at Bombay and obtained her B.Com Honors from Bombay University. She has done her M.B.A. in Finance from Department of Business Management Nagpur University and her Ph.D. from Institute of Management Studies, DAVV, Indore.

She was nominated by ICICI to attend 10 days Wealth Management extensive training program organized by ICICI at Pattaya, Thailand. She is nominated as a member of Expert Committee for drafting subject specific templates for Learning Outcomes based Curriculum Framework for undergraduate level by UGC, New Delhi. She has developed a course “Management by Consciousness” and has successfully run it from last 3 years in MBA Program.

Dr. Aanav Iyengar

Professor Economics

Dr. Aanav Iyengar is a teacher, speaker, advisor, author and researcher. He joined the Institute on July 17, 2008. He has nearly 15 years of Industrial experience and 19 years of teaching experience. He has been awarded a Ph.D. in Economics from the reputed School of Economics, Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidhyalaya, Indore, and completed his masters in International Business from the same Institute. He has been guiding research scholars, Till date four research scholar have been awarded Ph.D. under his able guidance. He has edited 7 research books up till now and his various research publications have been accepted by the SSRN for public viewing creating high level of impact. He has also authored a book titled ‘Company Law, Secretarial Practices’. He has attended a number of national and international conference and presented papers in them. Besides, he has a number of research papers in reputed journals. He has written a number of cases which have been uploaded on European Case Clearing House, Cranjield University, U.K. He is on the board of directors of Flex CG Service Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. Pukar Bhatt

Professor and Head - HR and General Management

He joined the Institute on August 08, 2007 As a Reader. Currently he is a Professor and Head (HR and General Management) at the Institute. He is an approved Ph.D. guide in Management for DAVV, Indore. Eleven research scholars have done Ph.D. under his guidance. He has more than twenty three years of teaching experience along with industrial experience in Personnel Department. He has been awarded “Best Teacher” by PIMR in International Conference held in 2009. His areas of interest include Human Resource Management, Human Resource Development, Industrial Relations and Labour Laws, Organisation Behaviour. He was an Organising Secretary for Second International Conference 08 at PIMR. He was Coordinator for National Research Methodology and National Case Writing Workshops at PIMR.

He has attended several conferences and his many papers have been published in reputed Journals like VISION(Journal of MDI Gurgaon) and Journal of XLRI etc., His papers have been published in ABDC and Scopus listed journals. Conference books and ADBC listed journal. His manuals on Emotional Intelligence Scale and Organisation Commitment have been published. He has attended FDPs which were sponsored by AICTE, New Delhi. He has conducted Personality Development sessions, Mock Interviews for CAs and Management Students. He has conducted sessions for Platoon Commanders at Rustamji Armed Police Training College,Indore,NGO and various organisations. He is an Editorial member for many reputed journals.

Dr. Ranjeeta Singh

Associate Professor - Finance

Dr. Singh is a faculty in finance and accounting area with more than eighteen years of work experience. Currently she is an Associate Professor in Department of Management at Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore. She has also served IIM Indore as an academic associate. She has done her doctorate in management and post graduation in finance from Devi Ahilya vishwavidyalaya, Indore. Her doctoral work was in the area of “risk management system in banks”. Her doctoral dissertation has been published by the Journal of Finance India. She is recognized Ph.D. guide in faculty of management at DAVV, Indore; ITM Raipur and Pacific University, Udaipur.  She is an UGC-NET (Management) qualified. She has more than fifty publications to her credit and her research papers and case studies have been published in journals of international and national repute including the journals listed in Scopus and ABDC Journals list.

Some of her cases have also been published online and uploaded on www.thecasecentre.org by the Case Centre, North America, USA. She has also received research awards for her publications from Asia Pacific Journal of Business, Kangwon National University, Korea and best research paper award from SAMVID, The Annual Research Journal of SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai. She has edited four research books and was also conference secretary of PIMR tenth and eleventh international conferences in years 2016 and 2017. She was also Managing Editor of Prestige e-journal of Management and Research and is in review board of various International and National journals like Journal of Management Development (ISSN: 0262-1711); Asia-Pacific Finance and Accounting Review (ISSN: 2278-1838); FIIB Review and Inderscience Journals.

Dr. Karan Mehra

Associate Professor (Marketing)

He joined the institute on August 1, 2014. He has fifteen years of experience in academics and has worked with various institutes of national repute. Before joining PIMR he was working with Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) Pune, from August 2011 to July 2014, as Associate Professor. At SIBM Pune he handled various responsibilities including the Faculty In-charge for weekend programs. He has many research papars in his credit which are published in various national and international journals including the journals of Elsevier.

He has also authored many cases which are published in various journals, books and monographs. He was the chairman of research committee at SIBM Pune in 2013-2014 and was the member of editorial committee of the research journal SAMVAD. He was the member of program committee of 2nd and 3rd Annual International Conference on Enterprise Marketing and Globalization (EMG) organized by Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), Singapore. He has also attended various international and national conferences and has presented papaers. He is actively involved in corporate training and is the main trainer for organizations like Cybeage, Bajaj Allianze Life Insurance Corporation, SBI Learning Centre, Employees Provident Fund etc. His areas of interest are Consumer Behaviour, Services Marketing, Branding and Strategic Marketing.

Dr Neha Batra

Associate Professor - Economics

Dr. Neha is currently Associate Professor in the area of Economics. She has been associated with the Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore since 14 th July,2005. She has also served IIM Indore as a trainee Academic Associate. Her areas of interest include Managerial Economics, Macroeconomics, International Economics, Econometrics and Economic Indicators. She has more than thirty publications to her credit and some of the research studies have been published in the indexed journals. She has developed number of case studies and five of the case studies are published with the European Case Clearing House. She has also edited books in the area of Management.

She is also handling Statistical and Analytical Cell since, 2017. She also conducts training sessions in the area of Econometrics and Research tools and techniques. She has also coordinated two international conferences in the year 2016 and 2017. Her doctoral work was in the area of Macroeconomic Variables and its relationship with Economic Growth in India : A study Since Economic Reforms. She has attended and presented paper in various National and International Conferences including IIM, IndoreM Nirma University, Ahmedabad. She is a recognized Phd Supervisor in the Faculty of Management, Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Indore. She has been Honorary Secretary and life member of Indian Society of Training and Development, Indore Chapter. She has also acted as a reviewer for McMillan publishers for the books in the area of Economics. She has also served on the Editorial Board of Prestige International Journal of Management and Research. She is also on the review board of FIIB Business Review and Prestige International Journal of Management and Research.