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'''Malavika Harita''' is an Indian executive who is the former CEO of advertising and communications company Saatchi & Saatchi Focus that has now been rechristened to [[Publicis Health & Publicis Business]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Saatchi & Saatchi Focus rechristened to Publicis Health & Publicis Business|url=https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/advertising/saatchi-saatchi-focus-rechristened-to-publicis-health-publicis-business/68477626}}</ref> She is also the president of Ad club of [[Bangalore]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Saatchi & Saatchi Focus CEO Malavika Harita is president of Bangalore Ad Club|url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/mam/marketing/mam/saatchi-saatchi-focus-ceo-malavika-harita-is-president-of-bangalore-ad-club}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Malavika completed her masters from [[Indian Institute of Management Bangalore]] in 1982.<ref>{{cite news|title=Busybee of the ad world|url=https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/columns/work/Busybee-of-the-ad-world/articleshow/25072248.cms}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Malavika started her professional career at [[HMT (India)|HMT Watches]] in an advertising and sales promotion function and joined Saatchi in 1993 after a stint at Mudra Communications. She also teaches advertising and brand management at various postgraduate institutes of management and communication in India.<ref>{{cite news|title=Advertising professional enters IIMB wall of fame|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/advertising-professional-enters-iimb-wall-of-fame/article5269326.ece}}</ref><br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
Malavika was the first woman to be awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by IIM Bangalore.<ref>{{cite news|title=An opportunity, not a challenge: Malavika Harita|url=http://www.iimb.ernet.in/node/3987|archive-date=22 April 2017|access-date=28 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422010754/http://www.iimb.ernet.in/node/3987|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was one of the first Gurukul Chevening Scholars, selected by the British Government for a special program under Lord [[Meghnad Desai]] at [[London School of Economics]] on Globalization.<br />
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