Dr. Kabaly P Subramanian is presently Acting Dean-Faculty of Business Studies, Arab Open University, Oman. Dr Kabaly holds a PhD in Management. He is a member of British Academy of Management (UK), Chartered Management Institute (UK), IEEE, Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD), Project Management Institute (PMI), Strategic partner of Blue Ocean Strategy Regional Centre (Malaysia).  Dr. Kabaly P Subramanian has been in Academia for the past 24+ years. He believes in and practices a balanced approach to academia: Research, Teaching and Learning, Industry and Community services.

 Research

Dr Kabaly's Research and Teaching interests lies at the intersection of Business Strategy, Business Innovation, Startups, Startup Ecosystems and Digital Transformation of Businesses. Dr. Kabaly has published in indexed journals and presented in conferences across the world including India, US, UK, Oman, UAE, Kuwait, Malaysia, Georgia and Lebanon and won best research paper award.  He is presently leading a team of researchers in investigating phenomenon’s including Value as a Strategy, Digital Transformation of Higher Education Institutions, Blockchain in Business, IoT in Education. These research projects are funded by MoHERI Oman and other external Industry funding partners. Dr. Kabaly is on the Editorial board of several academic research journals. 

 Teaching and Learning Facilitation

Dr Kabaly P Subramanian is a well-respected teacher and Learning facilitator in Business Strategy, Business Innovation, Digital Businesses and Entrepreneurship related courses and modules at both Undergraduate (BBA) and Postgraduate (MBA) levels. He receives good feedback from his students as an “inspiring” teacher.

 Industry and Community Services

Dr. Kabaly P Subramanian has trained more than 1000 Business leaders, Entrepreneurs and Executives in Strategy, Innovation and Digital Transformation across the world. He conducts Strategy workshops, Executive Education Programs and coaching sessions for Startup founders and founding teams. Dr Kabaly P Subramanian has consulted large, medium, and small enterprises on Strategy, Innovation and Digital Transformation initiatives. Presently Dr. Kabaly is consulting a large corporate in Oman on their Digital Transformation Strategy and being a Strategy Coach to a senior management team of a corporate group in Oman. Dr. Kabaly is involved in social initiatives which includes supporting educational Institutions and startups ecosystem enabling.

 Continuous Learner

Dr Kabaly believes and invests in continuous learning and Development. Recently Dr. Kabaly graduated from Columbia Business School, US and MIT, US in their jointly offered PG program in Digital Business through Emeritus Institute of Management, Singapore and program in Public Policy from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India. He has attended number of Faculty Development Programs (FDP) and Management Development Programs (MDP) in reputed institutions which includes IIM-K, IIM-B, TAPMI, ISB (India), UCSI (Malaysia) and, Oxford University (UK).

 Awards

He has received number of awards including Best Employee award from Ministry of Manpower, Sultanate of Oman, Best Professor in Management Studies as a part of “Oman Innovation Leadership Awards 2021, Recognized by Arab Open University Presidentship for “Dedication and outstanding role played” in accomplishing Open University, UK validation in 2021. Dr Kabaly also won Best research paper award.

 Prior Experience

Prior to Arab Open University, Dr. Kabaly P Subramanian worked as Head of Academic Section in Al Musanna College of Technology (University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Musanna) Sultanate of Oman. Also he worked with University of Madras affiliated National Institute of Human Resource Development as a member of faculty , in India .