ENVISIONING BUSINESS FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

Dr Prabhat Pankaj is a postgraduate in economics and a Ph.D in applied economics. He is an international researcher on happiness and well-being. He teaches course on happiness to B-School students. Dr Prabhat is a Harvard trained leader in higher education and currently working as the Director of Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur. In his 30 years plus teaching career, he spent 7 years in Bhutan and worked closely with Center of Bhutan Studies on the subject of happiness. He was also invitee to the World Government Summit 2019 in Dubai by the Ministry of Happiness, UAE. Dr Prabhat received the title of ‘National Unicorn of Happiness’ by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). Recently, he delivered keynote address on teaching happiness in B-school to 300 plus attendees in AACSB’s Asia Pacific Conference in Bangkok. Dr Prabhat has engaged happiness sessions for a large number of institutions and organizations cutting across sections such as students, faculty, corporate managers and top leaders. He has created a ‘Happiness Laboratory’ where Individual’s Energy Field Analysis is carried out using Electro-Photonic Imagining technology. Participants get a full report, which is a non-medical analysis of the energy levels of body organs, stress level analysis and 7-chakras balance. Individual prescriptions have helped many in restoring health and reducing stress in life. Dr Prabhat is an avid trainer and a resource person on effective teaching, teaching leadership, student centric teaching-learning, effective student engagement and outcome-based education (OBE). Indian Institute of Management–Ahmedabad has written a Case Study on ‘Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur’ focusing on student engagement which Dr Prabhat has initiated at Jaipuria, blending of formal and non-formal learning. Dr Prabhat runs a blogpost titled The Learning Corridor (http://student-learning.in) dedicated to research and experiments based writing on student learning, life and happiness.

Dr Prerna Jain, Associate Professor at Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur carries a rich experience of 22 years in academia. She is a Doctorate and Masters in Economics and has qualified the UGC-NET examination. She has earned academic laurels like the National Scholarship in Graduation and Gold Medal in Post-Graduation. She is presently engaged in the academic delivery of courses in the area of Economics. She is a lifetime member of Indian Economic Association and Rajasthan Economic Association and has extensively worked on sustainability issues and has an impressive number of research papers and articles to her credit in journals of repute. She has been invited as a resource person at various national and international forums .

Dr Lokesh Vijayvargy, Professor and Pan Jaipuria Area Chair of Operations Management & Decision Science at Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur. He has a Doctoral degree in Green Supply Chain Management from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jaipur, M.Tech in Industrial Management from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and B.Tech in Production Engineering from Jai Narain Vyas University Jodhpur. He has 17 years of experience in teaching and research. He has more than 27 research papers in ABDC, Scopus, WOS and UGC Care Journals to his credit. His areas of interest are Green Supply Chain Management, Supplier Selection, Operations Management, and Operations Research. He has published four edited books in different areas.