Prof. Harish C Chopra
Personal Profile
Prof Chopra is an Honors Graduate in Economics from St. Stephen’s
College, Delhi University, India, and subsequently completed M.B.A. from
Fordham University, New York, U.S.A., with concentration in International
Marketing.
During his stay in U.S.A. for over ten years, he worked with Multinational
Corporations like Unilever and Keebler Company (a Division of United
Biscuits Ltd of U.K.), before returning to India in 1981 to continue working
with prominent Corporate Organizations in India. This work experience
gave him exposure in the fields of planning, organizational structuring,
marketing and sales and HRD areas.
His academic career started in 1980 with the University of Miami, Florida,
U.S.A. where he began with teaching Marketing courses as a Visiting
Faculty, and continued with this pursuit in India, being connected with
premier Business Schools in Bombay, and subsequently at Jaipur, teaching
M.B.A. courses, with concentration in the areas of International Marketing
and Business Strategy.
He was invited by the University of Mauritius in 2003 to take up an
assignment as Associate Professor in Marketing, where besides the normal
teaching load in his areas of specialization, he was involved in an extensive
course restructuring exercise to bring the M.B.A. course more in line with
International offerings.
With a blend of his vast international corporate experience and academic
association for over 30 years, he has attempted to contribute towards
creation of knowledge capital and its application in the business world by
young leaders to meet the challenges of a dynamic, sometimes volatile,
global environment.
Harish C Chopra
A-249, Raghav Marg,
Hanuman Nagar,
Jaipur 302021.
E-mail : hcchopra2001@yahoo.co.in
Professional Profile
Objective
Contribution towards Management Education as Visiting Faculty
Education
Bachelor of Arts (Honors)- Economics
St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
1951-1955
Masters in Business Administration – Marketing [Spl: International Mktg]
Fordham University, New York, NY.
1973-1976
Current
Vocation
Areas of
Concentration
Previous
Assignment
Visiting Faculty in Marketing:
Podar Institute of Management, Rajasthan University, Jaipur
Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur.
Other prominent Business Schools affiliated to Rajasthan Technical University
International Business & Business Strategy
Associate Professor in Marketing,
University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius.
2003-2004
Educational
Association
Visiting Faculty – University of Mauritius, Mauritius.
University of Technology, Mauritius.
Earlier
Assignments as
Visiting Faculty
University of Miami, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
1980-1981
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management, Univ.of Bombay, Bombay.1984-1986
Podar Institute of Management, Univ. of Rajasthan, Jaipur,
1986-2003
Additional
Educational
Assignments
Was connected as Visiting Faculty with other prominent Institutes, affiliated to
the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
1991-2003
2004-2007
Advisor and Guest Faculty – Binani Institute of Management, Mirzapur, U.P.
Helped in establishment of the Institute from inception, including recruitment
of Faculty and subsequent implementation and monitoring of Academic and
Administrative activities.
Corporate
Experience
Executive Vice-President,
CIE Overseas Services & Trading Co. Ltd.,
Port Louis, Mauritius.
Vice-Chairman & President,
Punsumi India Ltd., Jaipur. India.
2004-2007
General Manager – Corporate Affairs,
J.K. Synthetics Ltd., Jaipur.
Vice-President – Marketing.
Apte Amalgamations Ltd., Bombay.
1986-1989
1989-1999
1984-1986
General Manager – Marketing,
The Raymond Woollen Mills Ltd., Bombay.
1981-1984
General Manager, Silver Springs Company, Inc. Miami, FL.
1980-1981
Division Sales Manager, Keebler Company, New York, NY.
1976-1980
Accounts Manager, Lever Brothers Company, New York, NY.
1972-1976
Sales Representative,
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY.
1971-1972
Consultancy,
Training &
Research
Consultant to Industry – Advise in Marketing and HRD areas.
Have supervised Industrial and Educational Research.
Have been a Guide for Dissertations at Graduate and Post-Graduate levels.
Have conducted training courses and seminars for the State Government of
Rajasthan and other private organizations in India, as well as at the University
of Mauritius.
Professional
Affiliations
Member – Accreditation Board, Tertiary Education Commission, Ministry
of Education, Government of Mauritius, Mauritius.
Vice President – Rajasthan Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Member – Northern Regional Committee: Electronics and Computer Software
Export Promotion Council – Government of India
Member – Foreign Trade and Management Sub Committees, Federation of
Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
Member – Export Sub Committee on Components: Electronics and Computer
Software Export Promotion Council – Government of India
Chairman – Power Sub-Committee: Rajasthan Chamber of Commerce &
Industry
Member – Rajasthan Committee, Punjab Haryana Delhi Chamber of Commerce
and Industry.
Member – Executive Board; Employer’s Association of Rajasthan
Profile of
Experience
Personal
Have worked in areas of policy formulation and implementation at all
Corporate level positions; including financial planning and forecasting, sales
and marketing, HRD, production planning and industrial and consumer
research. Pre-retirement assignment was with the largest manufacturer in India
of Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors and an ISO 9001 unit.
Permanent Resident in U.S.A. from 1971-1981.
Retired from Corporate Career since 1999.
Have maintained my association with Academics uninterrupted since 1980.
Married, with 2 sons, both Doctors, settled in U.S.A.