• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Strategy, IIM Visakhapatnam 

• Highest Qualification: PhD, Strategy, IIM Bangalore (2021) 

• Total Experience: 4 years (Academia: 4 years | Industry: 3 years) 

• Research Interests: Strategic resilience, platform business models, emerging markets, qualitative research 

• Teaching Areas: Strategic management, strategic resilience, strategy process research 

PGP/MBA (Graduate) 

• Strategic Resilience | Elective | Term 4 

• Competition & Strategy | Core | Term 2 

PhD/Doctoral 

• Strategy Process Research | Year 1  

Executive Education / MDP / FDP topics 

• Strategic resilience | Strategy in the VUCA world 

• Competition & strategy  

Journal Articles 

• Tewari, S., Karthika, S., Bhattacharya, B., & Singal, M. (2024). The Impact of Board Characteristics on the Financial Slack–CSR Relationship: Evidence from the Indian Hospitality and Tourism Industry. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 49(5), 982-996. https://doi.org/10.1177/10963480241275490  

• Kumar, Milan, and S. Karthika. "Consumer sustainability tradeoffs between imported and domestic products." Journal of Cleaner Production (2025): 145486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.145486  

Conference Papers (Peer-reviewed) 

• Tewari, S., Karthika, S., 2024 ”Understanding organizational resilience through the Bertopic approach”, India Strategy Conference, IIM Ahmedabad. 

• Karthika, S., Tewari, S., Srinivasan, R., 2025 “Creating shared value in emerging economies: The case of agritech platform in India”, INDAM, SIBM Pune 

Executive Education / MDPs / FDPs 

• Advanced Strategic Management | IIM V | May 2023-April 2024 | Program Director 

• Leadership Training Programme | Voluntary Health Services | November 2022 | Program Co-director 

• Strategic Management | IOCL Saksham |July, September 2025 | Faculty 

• Design Thinking for Women Leaders | Nurturing Women Leadership in Science & Technology |December 2025 |Faculty 

• Strategic Management for Senior Leaders | Strategic Chief Operations Officers | September 2025 |Faculty 

Institutional Administrative Roles 

• Area Chair, Strategy, IIM Visakhapatnam – May 2022 – April 2025 

Key responsibilities: Area level coordination of faculty workload, interface with various programmes offices, initiation of the Ph.D. and the Exec Ph.D. programmes within the Strategy area; coordination of one of the first online partnership EEPs run by the institute.  

Committees / Academic Governance 

• PG Diploma in Management for Executives Committee – Member 2025 

• Research and Consultancy Projects Committee – Member 2025 

• Accreditation and NIRF Committee – Member 2025 

• Public Relations Committee – Member 2025 

• Equal Opportunity Cell – Member 2025 

Academic Service (External) 

• Reviewer: Journal of Advances in Management Research 

Young Faculty Research Chair, IIM Visakhapatnam – 2025