Gad Ariav

Professor Ariav is a Visiting Scholar at the Israel Centre @ IIMB. He was a professor of technology and information management and Head of the Max Perlman Center at Tel-Aviv University, dedicated to the study of global business and the promotion of the understanding of global business issues. He was the Academic Director of the MBA specialization in Business Consulting at the Recanati School of Business. He has been on the faculty of Stern School of Business at NYU, Merage school of Management at UC Irvine and Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University in The Netherlands. He holds a PhD in Decision Sciences from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. He has followed closely Israel’s entrepreneurial eco-system as the founding Academic Director of TAU’s HTMS (the George Leven High Tech Management School) and is a keen student of the Indian innovation eco-system.

Education

• Ph.D. The Wharton School (1978 — 1982)
• M.Sc. Tel Aviv University (1975 — 1978)
• B.A. Tel Aviv University (1969 — 1972)

Companies

• Associate Professor (Retired) Coller School of Management (2017)
• Resident Scholar Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (2014)
• Visiting Scholar Center for Research in Technology and Innovation, Kellogg School of Management (2014 — 2018)
• Founding Academic Director, Business Consulting MBA concentration Coller School of Management (2012 — 2017)
• Academic Director, Global Business Studies (GBS) Coller School of Management (2008 — 2017)
• Head, Max Perlman Center for Global business Coller School of Management (2007 — 2017)
• Assoc. Prof. of Tech and Info Systems Management Tel Aviv University (2001 — 2017)
• Academic Director, Executive MBA Programs The Recanati Executive MBA Program (1994 — 2005)
• Founding Academic Director The George Leven High-Tech Management School (2000 — 2005)