Dr. Swati Singh
Swati is NET qualified and holds a doctorate from University of Lucknow. She has worked in academics for over 14 years in the area of Marketing. Her selected specialties in teaching are Product & Brand Management, Services Marketing, Fashion Retailing & Luxury Management.
Swati's research publications are on emerging economies, home-grown companies, wine industry, customer loyalty in retail & reverse innovation practices of firms in leading journals. Her current research is in decoding perception & behavior of Indians towards Luxury brands. She is currently doing a joint research project on waste management in India with a German University with funding from German Research Agency.
Swati is currently Associate Professor & Associate Dean-Marketing at VESIM. Her responsibilities pertains to -designing the course structure & syllabus for PGDM (Marketing) | Inviting high-profile corporate dignitaries to college for giving deep industry insights | Creating student Marketing Cell to give them more opportunities to express their views on industry and curriculum. This forum is managed by students for the conduct of various events to increase industry-student interface.
Swati is also Festival Director of "VESIM Literati Fest", one of its kind literature festival conducted by a management institute. The fest aims to bring-forth thought provoking ideas of eminent speakers and authors from across country. Apart from book launches & panel discussions, the Lit Fest includes many fun-filled activities ranging from painting to pottery to book swap to Gala evenings.
She has also launched a Literature Club in VESIM. The club comprising of student members, enable the students to improve their reading and oratory skills. It also help in their grooming by providing a platform for various student oriented activities like debates, extempore, storytelling sessions, panel discussions...
Ph.D. from University of Lucknow (2010)
NET Qualified (2003)
MBA (Marketing) from School of Business Studies Meerut University (1999-2001)
Bs.C. Mathematics from Kanpur University (1996-1999)
Proficiency & Diploma in French fron University of Lucknow (2008)
Certified Associate from Insurance Institute of India (2008)
Academic Affiliation
IIM Ahmedabad Alumni- Fully Residential Faculty Development Program (2019.
Assistant Professor at Amity Business School, Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus (2005-2015)
Professional Affiliation
VESIM
2015 - Date Developed & Taught:
Product & Brand Management
Services Marketing
Emerging Trends in Marketing
Operations Management
Financial Products Marketing
Amity University Lucknow Campus
2005 - 2015 Taught:
MBA (General)
Retail & Mall Management
Services Marketing
Operations Research
Operations Management
MBA (International Business)
Strategic Brand Management
MFRM (Masters in Fashion Retail Management)
Fashion Retailing
Supply Chain Management
MBA (Marketing & Sales)
Marketing Management
Retail Marketing
Area of Research
Customer Satisfaction
Luxury Management
International Branding
Retailing
Emerging Econimies
Bottom of Pyramid
Reverse Innovation
Current Research
Understanding Indians behaviour towards International Travel
Changing landscape for Indian Wine Market
Growth of Home-grown companies
Research Papers
2018: "Reverse Innovation Framework for Emerging Economies: Evidences from India”, Journal of Development Research, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 1-12.
2018: “Sula Wines: A Foray into Uncharted Territory”, South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp.11-20.
2017: "Outsmarting The MNCS by Fitting Strategic Maneuvers to National Framing: Evidence from India", Strategica International Academic Conference: Shift Major Challenges of Today's Economy, Bucharest. September 28-30, 2017.
2016: "Narayana Murthy: The Table Turner in Troubled Times", Amity Business Journal, Vol.5 No.2, pp.31-35
Newspaper Articles
2017: Patanjali: A 'Made in Bharat' Tsunami. An article in Free Press Journal, Mumbai dated November 8, 2017.
2017: Understanding Brand Communication Strategies of Sula Wines. An article in Free Press Journal, Mumbai dated October 13, 2017.
Working Papers
Conferences/Seminars/Workshops
2017: "National Dynamics of Home-grown Business in India". 26th Annual CIMaR Conference Consortium for International Marketing Research, University of Florence. June 20-23, 2017.
Work in Committees and Groups
Speaking Engagements
February 10, 2017
Panelist for GNLU-UNICEF Panel Discussion on "Breaking Barriers to Gender Inequality" at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar
May 7, 2019: Participant in "4th ICYD Conference- Education's Role in Mutual Understanding of India & China", China West Normal University, China.
March 8, 2019: Panelist at the session “Celebrating Her on Women’s Day” at IIT Bombay, Mumbai.
February 7-8, 2019: Conference Track Chairperson at 14th SIMSR Global Marketing Conference is "Marketing to Millennials", K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mumbai.