Debapratim Purkayastha

In 2021, Purkayastha won his eleventh Case Centre Awards, placing him just two awards behind the record thirteen awards won by Sumantra Ghosal.

On 7 May 2021, Dr. Purkayastha passed away due to COVID-19.

For the decade ending December 2019, Purkayastha's case studies were used at more than 1,000 business schools in over 90 countries to teach nearly half a million students worldwide.

In March 2018, Purkayastha received the Career360's “Faculty Research Awards”, which recognized India's top educators. The award was presented by Prakash Javadekar, the then Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

Purkayastha was The Case Centre's bestselling author every year since 2016, when the list was first made public. He was recognized for developing case studies in different innovative topics and formats including graphic novel (comic book) format. For instance, in 2019, his case 'Turbulence on the Tarmac', illustrated by Sid Ghosh, won the 'Outstanding Compact Case' award from The Case Centre.

Purkayastha was conferred the 'Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method' award in 2015, from The Case Centre's Executive Committee. He was the youngest, and the first educator from India to receive this award. He was also the first educator from outside North America and Europe to feature on the list of The Case Centre's all-time top authors list (covering 40 years, i.e., from 1974 to 2014) released in 2014.

Purkayastha joined ICFAI in 2006 after a stint in the pharmaceutical industry. Before that, he had worked in sales, sales force management and product management, at companies such as Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Zydus Cadila, Themis Medicare, and Hetero Drugs.

Debapratim Purkayastha (Bengali: দেবপ্রতিম পুরকায়স্থ; born 1976) was a professor of strategy, academic leader and case method expert.