Brands and Branding

Ashita Aggarwal is a professor of marketing at S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) in Mumbai, India. She has been a brand fanatic her entire adult life, and there is nothing she'd rather do than work with or study brands. She teaches the Strategic Brand Management course at SPJIMR across full-time and executive programs. She trains branding professionals and consults with organizations spanning multiple sectors. She has published numerous award-winning case studies with Ivey and Emerald Publishing, which are adopted worldwide in marketing courses. She is an avid traveler, always making time to take in the shopping aisles along with the sights around the world.

Suraj Commuri is a professor of marketing, Senior Associate Dean, and the Academic Director of the Center for Responsible Enterprise at the School of Business, University at Albany, State University of New York in Albany, New York. He has been a lifelong marketer and has worked in marketing in Asia, Europe, and the US. His research articles have appeared in leading journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, European Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Macromarketing. He loves aviation and photography, which makes aerial photography his passion.