Nirmalya Kumar

NIRMALYA KUMAR is Lee Kong Chian Professor of Marketing at the Singapore Management University. Previously, he headed strategy at Tata Sons, reporting to the chairman of the $100-billion Tata Group with 6,75,000 employees. Nirmalya has taught at Columbia University, Harvard Business School, IMD (Switzerland), London Business School and Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University). He has also been a visiting fellow at BITSoM, Cambridge Judge Business School, Indian School of Business and INSEAD.

Nirmalya is one of the world’s leading thinkers on strategy and marketing. As a consultant and speaker, he has worked with over fifty Fortune 500 companies in sixty countries. He has served on more than twelve boards of directors, including those of ACC, Ambuja Cement, Bata India, Tata Chemicals, Ultratech and Zensar.

Thrice included in Thinkers50 (the biannual listing of the top fifty management thinkers in the world), he received their Global Village Award for his contributions to the business
community’s understanding of globalization and emerging markets before being inducted into their Hall of Fame.

Books by Nirmalya Kumar

Clash

Nirmalya Kumar

‘Walmart (the incumbent leader in offline retailing) and Amazon (the attacking leader in online retailing) make up the most interesting business drama of our times. Will each stick to its current leadership role or will they emerge as dominant players in both roles? Nirmalya Kumar offers the best study
that I have seen of these two world-wrestling competitors’

- PHILIP KOTLER, S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University