Dr. A.D. Amar

Dr. A. D. Amar is Professor of Management (strategy and policy, and knowledge work management) and the Director of MBA Assessment.  He holds BS (India) and MS (MSU) degrees in engineering, an MBA (Baruch College), and a Ph.D. in Business (CUNY).  He has published over 75 works in various journals and periodicals, such as Production and Inventory Management Journal, IIE Transactions, Computers & Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Production Research, European Journal of Innovation Management, and The Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business.  He has been serving on the editorial boards of many journals, including Academy of Management Review, European Journal of Innovation Management, Computers and Operations Research, Computers and Industrial Engineering, and the Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business.  His works also include a book titled Managing Knowledge Workers: Unleashing Innovation and Productivity (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2002), focusing on understanding the personality and behavior of knowledge workers and how to productively employ and integrate them in the work environment. 

He has worked and consulted in general management, productivity enhancement, and operations and strategy areas for a number of firms, such as Vornado, Inc., Arkwin Industries, Teledyne Pacific Industrial Controls, General Motors, and VW/Audi Group.  He has trained managers for federal, state, and city governments, and for private companies.  In addition to lecturing at many technical conferences almost all over the world, he has instructed business and public managers in the USA, the U.K., Russia, Poland, and India.  He has been invited to conduct seminars, chair professional conference sessions and was a plenary speaker at the 2002 European Knowledge Management Forum in London, UK.  Dr. Amar is a member of INFORMS, Academy of Management, and Beta Gamma Sigma.

Dr. Amar is married.  His wife (Sneh) and he have two sons.

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