Prof. Ashok K. Sar is member of faculty in the Strategic Management area. He has a blend of working experience, 20 years in industry and 20 years in academics. For the last 18 years, he has been in full time academic positions (five years of academic experience as Adjunct Faculty Member concurrent to his industry assignment). He served as the Dean of Faculty, KIIT School of Management during 2010 – 2016. He teaches core courses in Strategic Management and Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility and elective course in Pricing Management. He has conducted MDPs for working executives in the areas of Personal Effectiveness, Building Learning Organization, Strategy Execution, Time Management and Quality & Effectiveness through Systems Thinking. He has also developed an eight weeks executive education programme in general management for young working executives. He is in the panel of visiting faculty members at the Odisha Judicial Academy, and trains the state Judicial Officers on Management Skills. Prior to his present assignment, he worked with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) for twenty years in varied areas of responsibilities, such as,  Marketing Operations, Sales and Supply Network Planning & Development, Business Development in Retail, Industrial & Consumer Segments, LPG and Lubricants; Training & Development; Business Partner – Human Resource Management; Management Control and Reporting Systems; and Enterprise Resource Planning.

He published two patents, and thirty-four papers in peer reviewed journals. Eighteen of these papers are in SCOPUS/ Web of Science/ ABDC index/ list. He has guided six Ph.D. scholars and is guiding six more scholars, who are in various stages of their research work. He has completed an ICSSR-IMPRESS funded major research project titled- “Impact of Dynamic Capability on Success of Entrepreneurs: A Study of Small and Medium Manufacturers in Odisha”.

Dr. Ipsita Nayak has completed her PhD from Utkal University and a Certificate course in Communication and Management Essentials from IIT, Kharagpur. Her doctoral research on the theme of “Social Exclusion” is in the area of Indian English fiction. She has 20 years of teaching experience in the area of Communicative English, Business Communication and Managerial Communication. She conducts training programmes for employees at various capacities in different organizations. She has designed and facilitated training at NINL, NTPC, Tata Power, SIDBI and ESSPL.

Dr. Nayak has delivered several talks in academic forums as a resource person and invited speaker. She has an expertise in designing ABL (activity-based learning) sessions. She offers personalized solutions to the problems concerning the communication competency of students/ trainees. She believes in upgrading herself with perpetual research. Her research orientation is reflected in her numerous presentations in seminars and conferences and in her publications in both print and electronic media. She is also associated with reputed journals as a reviewer. Her research interests include World literature, Tribal literature, Postcolonial literature, Sustainability studies and Cultural Studies.