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Dr Karunakar Jha has been appointed as the academic director of Mumbai’s Universal Business School. Dr Jha will deliver high quality outcomes consistent with the Universal Business School’s mission, set the academic standards, collaborate across the multiple programs, deliberate on faculty productivity assessment, develop industry-international connections with teaching, research publications and power mentoring interventions. A Bachelor’s in History from Fergusson College Pune, Dr Jha did his MBA from the Institute of Management Development and Research situated at Pune followed by the Doctorate in Marketing from Patna University. He is an experienced corporate practitioner and academician, and has varied experience across the cross section of the industry. His professional journey includes some of the well-known conglomerates such as AMUL, Unilever, Lipton India, The Times of India group, the Samson’s group & Mobile18 in leadership positions. Besides, he was the Director (School of Management) at Jagran LakeCity University (JLU) Bhopal.