In addition to his teaching role, Sekhar Amba has been serving as director for department assessment at NYIT School of Management since 2010, coordinating and operationalizing all assessment activities for programs and courses, and linking these assessments to the programmatic, major-specific learning, and course-level learning goals and reports. He integrates Bloomberg, a real-time financial database, in his finance courses.
Amba’s main research areas are corporate finance and governance, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and stock market efficiency. His articles have been published in international peer-reviewed journals. He won outstanding research awards for his paper “Impact of Gender Diversity in Boards & Executives on Firms Governance and Financial performance: Empirical Evidence from Canadian Market,” presented in the global conference on business and finance hosted by The Institute for Business and Financial Research. He also contributed to the academic community as a reviewer of corporate governance for The International Journal of Business in Society.
Publications
- Amba, S . M., & Almukharreq, F. (2013). “Impact of the Financial Crisis on Profitability of the Islamic Banks vs Conventional Banks-Evidence from GCC.” International Journal of Financial Research, 4(3), p. 83.
- Amba, S. M. (2013) "Corporate Governance and firms financial performance” Journal of Academic and Business Ethics. Volume 8
Honors & Awards
- 2017 Institute for Business & Financial Research Outstanding Research Award for the conference paper, “Impact of Gender Diversity in Boards & Executives on Firms Governance and Financial Performance: Empirical Evidence from Canadian Market.”
- New York Tech Global Faculty Summer Research and Creativity Grants (GFSRC) 2016 in support of research on “Corporate Sustainability: Do Executives and Investors Care? - An empirical study
- New York Tech Global Faculty Summer Research and Creativity Grants (GFSRC) 2015 in support of research: “Impact of Gender diversity in Boards & Executives on Firms Governance and Financial Performance: Empirical Evidence from Canadian Market”
- New York Tech Global Faculty Summer Research and Creativity Grants (GFSRC) 2014 in support of research “Do Top Canadian Socially Responsible Companies Perform Better Financially?”
- New York Tech Global Faculty Grants in support of research and presentation “NAFTA Equity Market Integration” at Business & Economics Society International Conference, Florence, Italy, 6-9 July, 2014
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- Analysis and Valuation of Equity Investments
- Portfolio Management
- Financial Policy and Value creation
- Executing and Reporting Financial Market Transactions
- Corporate Financial Decision Making