Nirmalya Kumar is Professor of Marketing, Faculty Director Executive Education, Director of Centre for Marketing, and Co-Director of Aditya Birla India Centre at London Business School.
Born in India, now a US citizen, Professor Kumar received his B.Com. from Calcutta University (graduating first in a class of 5,251 students), his MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (scoring a perfect 5.0 grade point average), and his PhD in marketing from Kellogg Graduate School of Management (winning the Marketing Science Institute's Alden G. Clayton Award for his PhD dissertation).
He was previously on the faculty of Harvard Business School, IMD-International Institute for Management Development (Switzerland), and Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Value Merchants: Demonstrating and Documenting Superior Value in Business Markets
Marketing as Strategy: Understanding the CEO's Agenda for Driving Growth and Innovation