Currently Director of IMT Nagpur, Dr. Rajendra Nargundkar has taught in leading Indian business schools, like IIML and IIMK and in U.S. universities. He has trained over 1000 executives at Kirloskar Institute, IIM Lucknow and IIM Kozhikode, PESIT and IFIM. Some prestigious academic journals like the Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Global Marketing have published his research papers. He has also trained several B school faculty and Ph.D. scholars in research and teaching methodology.

A marketing professor for most of his career, Rajendra Nargundkar has written three major text books on Marketing Research, International Marketing and Services Marketing. He is currently working on a fourth book on Brand Management. After his MBA in marketing at IIM Bangalore, Dr. Nargundkar worked in advertising and marketing research companies before leaving to get a Ph.D. at Clemson University, USA. His bachelor’s degree was in Electrical Engineering from Osmania University.

His other interests, besides writing, include Hindi film music (particularly Kishore Kumar), the films themselves, and reading, with humour (Wodehouse) and mystery (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe is a favourite) being the most read . He also revels in playing golf with friends, usually at their expense. He calls both Hyderabad and Pune his home towns. He looks forward to owning an island in the Bahamas with borrowed money.

He can be reached at rnargundkar@gmail.com. He blogs at http://rnargundkar.blogspot.com/ and is also on Linkedin.