ARUN SHARMALeading the Research on Liquidity
Dr. Arun Sharma is a professor at Miami Business School, University of Miami, and has been recognized as being in the top 1% of marketing professors. He has also served as the school’s vice dean of graduate business programs and executive education and chairman of the Department of Marketing.
Sharma’s research interests are in disruption, liquid organizations, global market trends, market structures, and market strategy. He serves on several review boards of journals and has published extensively (over 95 refereed articles). His research and teaching have been recognized through multiple awards for excellence in research and excellence in teaching. He has also co-edited journals and co-chaired several conferences.
Sharma has considerable industry experience in the following areas: disruption, liquidity, customer and industry trends, enhancing access, addressing heterogeneous markets (e.g., developing and developed markets within a country), market movements, developing innovation-driven firms, and country strategies. Sharma has served as a consultant to several corporations, including Accenture, Agilent Technologies, American Express, AT&T, Audi, AutoNation, Arthrex, AstraZeneca, Burger King, Boston Scientific, Citrix, Coca-Cola, Conagra, Ericcson, Exxon, Goodyear, HP, IBM, Macy’s, MasterCard, Medtronic (Covidien), Motorola, Novartis, PayPal (Xoom), Procter & Gamble, RCCL, Sandoz, Siemens, Sprint, Visa International, Walmart, Western Union, and Zimmer.
Sharma received his Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a bachelor of science in engineering degree. Before joining the academic world, he worked for three years in a high-technology service firm where he handled product management and sales management responsibilities. Arun can be contacted by email at arun@theliquidorganization.com.