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ORCID: 0000-0001-5844-5502
ResearcherID: B-9632-2016
Rizwan Raheem
Ahmed
Professor of Marketing at Indus University
Business Administration
Sindh, Pakistan
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About

A Sales & Marketing Professional with 25Plus years of diversified experience for both transnational and national companies proven credentials of continuous successes throughout the career in Sales & Marketing. Moreover, for last four and half years, teaching, research and supervising dissertation for MBA, MS/M.Phil., and Ph.D. level students at Indus University, SZABIST, IBA Karachi, Sindh Madressatul Islam University (SMIU), Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), and Hamdard University, Karachi. Author and co-author: More than 100 Publications in Peer Reviewed Refereed National and International Journals, and Conference Proceedings (HEC Approved Publications). He also acquired the corporate experience as middle and upper management cadres for more than two decades in prestigious national and transnational corporations such as: Merck & Co. Inc. USA, AkzoNobel, NV Organon Netherlands, Siemens Pakistan, and OBS Pakistan, etc. Higher Education Commission of Pakistan has awarded a status of “HEC Approved Ph.D. Supervisor” in the discipline of “Management Sciences and Business Education”. He is also a member of American Marketing Association (The Chicago Chapter-United States).

Professional Skills
Strategic Management
Management
Strategic Planning
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Human Resource Management
Marketing Management
Business
Innovation
Business Development
Research Experience
Professor (Full)
Indus University September 2013 - Present
I am teaching "Advanced Research Methodology" to Ph.D. Scholars. Also Supervising M.Phil/MS and Ph.D. Dissertations.
Professor (Full)
Indus University September 2013 - Present
Visiting Professor
Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology January 2013 - Present
I am teaching for MBA Elective "Pharmaceutical Marketing" and Supervising MBA Final Projects
Ph.D. Research Scholar
Hamdard University October 2008 - Present
Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Marketing. Thesis Title was"Pharmaceutical drug promotion Practices in Pakistan: Issues in ethical & non-ethical Pharmaceutical practices"
Post Doctoral Research Scholar
University of Chicago September 2019 - April 2020
Doctoral Research Scholar
Universidad Azteca October 2015 - June 2019

Professional Doctoral Research Scholar at Universidad Azteca.

Specialization in “Digital Media Advertising”

Research Dissertation Title:The creativity and effectiveness of interactive digital media advertising: a case of Pakistani industrial and services sectors”

Universidad Azteca (México)

European and International inter-university degree programs – Innsbruck, Austria 

Post Doctoral Research Scholar
George Mason University January 2015 - January 2016

Specialization in “Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurship”

Research Project Title:Impact of National Pharmaceutical Industry in Job Creation in the Remote areas of Pakistan: Evidence from Structural Equation Modeling”

George Mason University – Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA, United States

M.Phil and PhD. Scholar
Hamdard University February 2002 - June 2013

M.Phil and PhD. Research Scolar for 10 years at Hamdard University (Madinat-al-Hikmah) – Karachi.

Work Experience
BUSINESS UNIT HEAD
S. J. & G. FAZUL ELLAHIE (PVT.) LTD. (SOLACE PHARMA DIVISION) January 2011 - November 2014
NATIONAL SALES MANAGER
OBS PAKISTAN (PVT.) LTD. (FORMERLY KNOWN AS MERCK SHARP & DOHME OF PAKISTAN LTD.) October 2009 - January 2011
Sales Manager
Akzo Nobel December 2001 - September 2009
NATIONAL SALES MANAGER
Merck Co June 2008 - October 2009
Visiting Professor
Dow University of Health Sciences September 2017
Visiting Professor
Sindh Madrasatul Islam January 2016
GENERAL MANAGER
MEDISAVE PHARMACEUTICALS April 2015
Professor (Full)
Indus University September 2013
Adjunct Professor
Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology January 2013
Education
University of Chicago
2019 - 2020
Postgraduate , Post Doctorate (Market Research)

Visiting Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Market Research at the Social Sciences Research Center (SSRC), the Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences at the University of Chicago

Research Project:

Social & behavioral theories and Physicians’ prescription behavior: empirical evidence from SEM-based modeling and conditional process analysis

Universidad Azteca
2015 - 2019
Doctoral Degree , Business administration

Specialization in “Digital Media Advertising”

CGPA: 3.92 out of 4.00

Research Dissertation Title:The creativity and effectiveness of interactive digital media advertising: a case of Pakistani industrial and services sectors”

Universidad Azteca (México)

European and International inter-university degree programs – Innsbruck, Austria 

George Mason University
2015 - 2016
Postgraduate , Post Doctorate

Specialization (Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurship)

Research Project Title:Impact of National Pharmaceutical Industry in Job Creation in the Remote areas of Pakistan: Evidence from Structural Equation Modeling”

George Mason University – Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA, United States

Hamdard University
2008 - 2013
Doctoral Degree , Marketing

Specialization in “Pharmaceutical Marketing”

CGPA: 3.50 out of 4.00

Dissertation Title: “Pharmaceutical Drug Promotion in Pakistan: Issues in Ethical & Non-ethical Marketing Practices”

Hamdard University (Madinat-al-Hikmah) – Karachi

Institute of Business Administration
2009 - 2011
Master's Degree , Business administration

Specialization in “General Management”

CGPA: 3.10 out of 4.00         

72 credit hours completed with “Two Research Theses”

Institute of Business Administration – IBA – Karachi

 

Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology – SZABIST – Karachi
2004 - 2007
Master's Degree , Management science

CGPA: 3.37 out of 4.00

MS/M.Phil Specialization in Management with two Independent Research Studies.

 

PAF Karachi Institute of Economics & Technology
1998 - 2000
Master's Degree , Marketing

CGPA: 3.52 out of 4.00

Specialization in Marketing and Advertising

University of Karachi
1994 - 1995
Master's Degree , Statistics

Department of Statistics & Actuarial Sciences - University of Karachi – KU – Karachi

Specialization in Multivariate Analysis, Operations Research, and Statistical Quality Contril.

University of Karachi
1991 - 1994
Bachelor's Degree , Statistics
Membership
Membership
Apr 2020 - Apr 2022
American Marketing Association
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