Professor Pradeep Pai is NMIMS Mumbai’s InsideIIM Professor Of The Year 2020! With 20 years of industry and 25 years of teaching experience, this professor engages the class with humour, wit and real-life industry examples. Here is why NMIMS Mumbai students love him. Note - The winner(s) of the InsideIIM Professor of The Year at any given campus has/have been chosen by current MBA students of that campus. The voting process began in the month of February 2020, and MBA students could nominate their favourite professors here. The professor(s) with the maximum number of votes has/have been declared the winner(s) in 2020!Take a look at all the winners of the InsideIIM Professor of The Year here.
Meet Prof. Pradeep Pai - Associate Professor of NMIMS Mumbai, InsideIIM’s Professor Of The Year 2020
Prof. Pai is an Associate Professor at NMIMS Mumbai, where he teaches business statistics, operations management, supply chain management, logistics management, productivity management, operations research and research methodology to first and second-year students at the b-school. He has done his engineering and MMS (Masters of Management Studies) both in Mumbai University. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Business Management from All India Management Association (AIMA) and Aligarh Muslim University (AIMA – AMU).He has 20 years of industry experience. He has worked with companies like Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co. Ltd., Godrej GE Appliances Ltd., Personnel Search Services, and ACE Search Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Apart from that, he has 25 years of teaching experience in colleges like KJSIMSR, IBS, Parle Tilak Vidyalaya’s Institute of Management & Research, Vile Parle (East), etc. He has published many papers and has also written a book named Operations Research – Principles & Practice (5th ed.) which got published in Oxford University Press. Read more about Prof. Pradeep Pai here.
InsideIIM Professor of The Year 2020 - What NMIMS Students Have To Say About Prof. Pradeep Pai
“His classes are never dull, as he never teaches by the book. His methods and examples ensure the concepts are absorbed and well practised to be applicable in daily life as well.”“The way he teaches the subject by constantly giving real-world examples and practical applications is what makes him an amazing teacher. Moreover, his way of interacting with students and friendliness is unparalleled.”“He makes an effort to give relevant industry examples for everything he teaches and keeps the class engaged with humour and wit.”
(above) Prof. Pai on Innovation, Research and the journey of Excellence.Here's what the Professor of The Year series is all about, and why it matters.The following are professors at NMIMS Mumbai who missed out on winning the title of InsideIIM's Professor of The Year in 2020, but are loved by NMIMS students:Dr Sreeram Sivaramakrishnan:His way of teaching brings method to the madness that is there in the Marketing curriculum. It is highly structured and examples and case intensive, cases which are very relevant to the students. Prof. Chandrima Sikdar: The sheer passion with which she teaches and the amount of energy she carries while teaching is just fabulous. She has that art of making something Economics sound stimulating for someone like me who comes from an engineering background and no prior course on economics. She takes everything to real life, asks us to question our beliefs and intervenes to give her inputs in our quest of discussion-based learning.You may also like reading: