A. D. Amar (Amar Dev Amar) is an Indian-American scholar, researcher, author and educator of knowledge in organizations. Since 2001, he has been working to compile knowledge from academic, business, and millennia-year-old manuscripts for developing knowledge applications for managing organizations. To this end, he organized many scholarly and applications activities by bringing experts, thought leaders, and the learned from India and other parts of the world to cover wisdom as the goal of knowledge and how to adapt it for managing organizations. It includes knowledge of self, others, and societal entities. It covers intrinsic motivation, training, and control of mind, and the development of behavior, especially related to work. He has carried out research and disseminated it in these and other management areas at professional levels using the platforms of the prominent global professional and scholarly societies such as the Academy of Management (AOM), the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), and the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO). For his contributions, initiatives, and achievements, he has received many honors and is listed among the Harvard Business School Profiles in Business and Management, International Directory of Scholars and Their Research of the Harvard Business School Publishing, Who's Who in Frontiers Science and Technology, among others.
Early life and background
Amar was born in Punjab, in British India, right before the 1947 breakup of Punjab into Pakistan-controlled West and India-controlled East portions and was carried across the border by his parents who walked into the Indian territory from the current-day Pakistan over the bridge dividing the two. His family, the Junejas, warriors and peace-time businessmen and landlord farmers, were courted by Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1st Maharaja of the Sikh Empire) by sending his trusted General Hari Singh Nalwa (who later became the Commander-in-Chief of his invasion forces) to the Junejas who then lived in Dasuya-Mukerian in Hoshiarpur District of the undivided Punjab in British India. The Maharaja invited the Junejas to join his forces to invade and conquer Kabul to control the atrocities being committed against the Hindus. The Junejas then made the Juneja Regiment, their own regiment, in the Maharaja's invasion forces. On victory over Afghanistan and other territories, in 1837, the Junejas were incentivized, became landlords and stayed back. Their 1947 return to the India-held portion of Punjab was like their coming home after more than a century of warring around the northern territories.
Amar studied science and engineering at the Punjab Engineering College of the Panjab University in India, where he earned his B.Sc. in Production Engineering (With Honors). He moved to the US to continue his studies to earn an M.S. degree in Industrial & Management Engineering at Montana State University Bozeman, that he earned in the shortest period legally allowed, and then moved on to The Graduate School and University Center, the City University of New York on Fellowship A for his doctoral studies in business management. He earned his Ph.D. in Business and became the first among those who entered the doctoral program with him, and some even before him.
Since 2021, he has been accepted, through Seton Hall University—where he has been a professor of management, as an affiliate of the Harvard Business School's Michael Porter's MOC (Microeconomics of Competitiveness) at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University.
Career
Amar started his career in designing and manufacturing machine tools at Orisun Machine Tools in Chandigarh, India and moved to electronic systems at Teledyne Pacific Industrial Controls in Oakland, California, and systems design at Arkwin Industries in Westbury, NY, where in 1978, he applied the concepts of artificial intelligence to give visibility to complex processes at job shops and published a few papers on this. He joined the faculty of the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University in 1983 where he has been training mostly graduate students in the areas of knowledge and technology organization management, production and service operations, and management theory and practice. Amar has also served on the faculties of Punjab Engineering College, India; Westminster Business School-- London, U.K.; Touro College-- Arbat of Moscow, Russia; Warsaw School of Economics-- Warsaw, Poland; and the East West University, Shanghai, China, among others.