GUWAHATI, Nov 16 - Professor Debapratim Purkayastha, associate dean of ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad and an alumnus of Cotton College, emerged as the number one bestselling author of case studies in management in a recently declared list of bestselling case authors by the UK-based The Case Centre, which is the world�s largest repository of case studies.
Professor Purkayastha is ahead of more than 8,000 case authors from across the globe. The other bestselling authors are from internationally reputed B-schools like Harvard Business School, IMD, INSEAD, Stanford Graduate School of Business, etc.
In the list The Case Centre has revealed the top 40 bestselling authors for the year 2015-16.
Professor Purkayastha, a 1998 batch Cottonian, is considered among the leading experts in Case Method, a pedagogical approach initially made popular by Harvard Business School and later adopted by all top business schools. He is the son of Anima Purkayastha and Dilip Kumar Purkayastha.
Many of Purkayastha�s cases are published in global editions of textbooks of renowned authors and publishers. He has conducted a number of case method workshops in leading B-schools in India and abroad. He regularly serves as jury and judging panel member for many international case writing and teaching competitions.
GUWAHATI, Nov 16 - Professor Debapratim Purkayastha, associate dean of ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad and an alumnus of Cotton College, emerged as the number one bestselling author of case studies in management in a recently declared list of bestselling case authors by the UK-based The Case Centre, which is the world�s largest repository of case studies.
Professor Purkayastha is ahead of more than 8,000 case authors from across the globe. The other bestselling authors are from internationally reputed B-schools like Harvard Business School, IMD, INSEAD, Stanford Graduate School of Business, etc.
In the list The Case Centre has revealed the top 40 bestselling authors for the year 2015-16.
Professor Purkayastha, a 1998 batch Cottonian, is considered among the leading experts in Case Method, a pedagogical approach initially made popular by Harvard Business School and later adopted by all top business schools. He is the son of Anima Purkayastha and Dilip Kumar Purkayastha.
Many of Purkayastha�s cases are published in global editions of textbooks of renowned authors and publishers. He has conducted a number of case method workshops in leading B-schools in India and abroad. He regularly serves as jury and judging panel member for many international case writing and teaching competitions.
