Professor of the Year Award

The Professor of the Year Award at the ISB is a platform to celebrate outstanding teaching, and to express the students’ gratitude to the professor who creates an unequivocal impression on the student body. This award is in recognition not only of excellence in teaching, but also the ability to motivate students, and create a passionate interest in the respective subject.

Each student nominates one professor for the Core Terms and one for the Elective Terms. The results are tallied and announced to the ISB community before the Award ceremony which is held on the eve of the Graduation Day.

Professor Rakesh V Vohra, Kellogg School of Management, was the students’ choice for the Core Courses and Professor Oded Sarig, The Wharton School of Business, for the Elective Courses.

On receiving the award, Professor Vohra remarked, “I am both surprised and please to get this award. The quality of faculty who teach at the ISB is rather high. So, I was `gob-stopped' to be singled out in this way. I have taught at the ISB twice, and on both occasions it has been a marvellous experience. The students are extremely competent. Full of fire and hungry for understanding and that makes teaching fun. That the current crop got a lot out of the course is a testament to how much they put in.

I taught the second half of the Managerial Economics class. It covers what an economist would call‘ imperfect competition’- which is a rather dull description for an incredibly interesting topic, specifically, how firms should and do compete. Within the `wooden O' of the classroom one gets to recreate the clash of commercial armies. I benefited a great deal from the heavy lifting of ISB Professor Amit Bubna, who taught the first half of the course and prepared the students well. He did the set up and I got to deliver the punch-line.”

“It gives me a great pleasure to be so honored! I have enjoyed being with such a wonderful class and knowing that this was not just a one-sided feeling is very gratifying. I wish the whole class much success in developing successful and satisfying careers”,