MICA Professor Subrat Sarangi awarded the ‘Professor of the Year 2021’ by web portal InsideIIM. With more than 23 years of industry, management consulting, teaching, and research experience, Prof Sarangi brings vivid learnings from various domains to his classes. Students across B-schools nominate their favourite professors on campus for the title of ‘Professor of the Year’ as a small token of gratitude for professors.
Prof Subrat Sarangi
Dr Shailendra Raj Mehta, President and Director, MICA, said, “Prof. Sarangi’s ability to integrate industry experience with theoretical concepts makes his classes extremely engaging for the students. I congratulate Prof Sarangi for this achievement.”
Dr Sarangi, who teaches Quantitative Research Methods at MICA, said, “Given the Covid-19 pandemic with virtual classrooms being the new normal, I ensured that I did my very best by effective usage of technology to give the simulated classroom experience. Keeping the students engaged in a virtual set up was a challenge, but not something impossible more so when this is the model of education 2.0.”
Before joining MICA in June 2018, Prof Sarangi worked with KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India, as Associate Professor (Grade II). In his long career in advisory services, Prof Sarangi has engaged with leading global and Indian companies across various industry domains, including automotive, hi-tech, FMCG, port and infrastructure, metals and mining, healthcare, media and publishing, and plastics.
His current teaching interests include — B2B Marketing, marketing research, FMCG marketing, strategic management, supply chain management, advanced operations management, and doing business in emerging markets. He is also a visiting faculty to XLRI Jamshedpur, IIM Sambalpur, and IRMA.