TY - BOOK AU - Bikhchandani, Sanjeev AU - Raghuram, G. AU - Rai, P. D. AU - Thakur, Rohan AU - Srivastava, Suman AU - Krishnan, Venkat AU - Sitapati, Sudhir AU - Bhanwala, Harsh AU - Sharma, Arvind AU - Desai, Santosh AU - Krishnan, Rishikesha AU - Bhogle, Harsha AU - Bhogle, Anita AU - Raghubir, Priya AU - Sahay, Arvind AU - Srinivasan, Raghavan AU - Sharma, Shikha AU - Nayar, Falguni AU - Mukherjee, Sucharita AU - Kalra, Deep AU - Batra, Rajeev AU - Deoras, Mukul AU - Sethi, Ashok TI - The book about you: festschrift for Professor A. K. Jain, 2018 U1 - 658.8 PY - 2018/// CY - N.A. PB - N.A. KW - Professor A.K. Jain KW - Festschrift - A.K. Jain N1 - Content A.K. Jain: The Institution 01. A close encounter of the third kind 02. Abhinandan ko Abhinandan ho! Public Service 03. How do politicians keep a finger on the pulse of the people: and how do some get it more right than others? 04. The idea of customer centricity in the role of a Deputy commissioner/district collector. 05. Consumer behavior challenges in creating a giving industry and insights from the journey on how to change them. 06. The purpose of brand purpose. 07. Making world's Largest micro-finance programme vibrant and impactful - a case study. Society, culture and innovation 08. Has Indian advertising successfully captured the tremendous social change? 09. Culture as Lens? 10. Immersion and insights in a digital world. 11. Cricket's innovation from within. Consumer research 12. Three questions to guide the choice of a research method. 13. Mirror neurons and customer buying behavior. 14. In search of consumer truth: measurement challenges in emerging asia and "first-principle" driven innovations. Consumer centricity in Business 15. Balancing business process efficiency and customer service: can one have it all? 16. What the Nykaa journey has taught me about customer service. 17. Designing financial solutions for the poor: five insights from the bottom of the pyramid. 18. Is price discounting the only way to build an E-commerce mass market business in India? Global Business 19. How marketing success requires smart strategy too: learning from the new emerging market multinationals. 20. Supercharged technology enabled glocalisation: learning local to build global brands. 21. Himalayan sunder - driving the Indian and the Chinese consumers. N2 - It is a set of twenty-one articles around the themes of problem solving and customer centricity, written by students across batches and working in a variety of sectors. We have a member of parliament, a managing director of a leading commercial bank and a chairman of a unique national development bank, noted social entrepreneurs and new age e-business wave makers, distinguished academics, advertising and market researcher industry shapers and business leaders working globally and locally with consumer goods majors. The articles have been arranged in 6 sections: A.K. Jain: The Institution, Public Service, Society, culture and innovation, Consumer research, Consumer centricity in Business, Global Business ER -