The program Overview International Participants Networking & Alumni Clubs Curriculum Tentative Calendar Course Description Faculty   Faculty Teaching at the Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA Program is done primarily by selected senior members of the Kellogg and Recanati faculties as well as selected Kellogg network faculty members. The community of teachers in the Kellogg-Recanati Program includes faculty members who are experienced practitioners and teachers of executives in a variety of contexts and continents. Teachers retain their membership in this elite group by consistently establishing meaningful learning experiences for participants in their classes.

Part of my job as a teacher in the program is to link the wealth of student experience to the financial concepts and knowledge that I bring to class. With their background and positions, participants are able to relate directly to what they have learned, and in many cases, they put it to work immediately. It is this interaction between knowledge and experience that makes teaching executives so rewarding for me. Learning from multinational experience is what differentiates an International EMBA and what makes the Kellogg-Recanati experience particularly exciting”. Prof. Aharon Ofer Professor of Finance The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration     The following list of the current and recent faculty members includes a brief mention of their fields of special interest and expertise.

 

GAD ALLON (Northwestern University) Gad Allon is an associate professor of managerial economics and decision science. PhD in Management Science from Columbia Business School in New York.  Eli Amir (London Business School and Tel Aviv University) Professor of Accounting. Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. Financial reporting and measurement, the valuation of financial disclosures, financial statement analysis. Gadi Ariav (Tel Aviv University) Associate Professor of Technology and Information Systems and Management. Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania. Systems analysis and design, database management systems, data communications, decision support systems (DSS).   Peter Bamberger (Tel Aviv University) Professor Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management. Ph.D. from Cornell University. Human resource strategy, peer relations in organizations, occupational health psychology, peer self-regulation, peer-based helping and help-seeking in the workplace.  Jeanne Bertt (Northwestern University) Director of the Dispute Resolution Research Center, DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations. Ph.D. from University of Illinois. Dispute resolution/mediation, negotiations, cross-cultural negotiation. Timothy Calkins (Northwestern University) MBA from Harvard Business School. Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing. Marketing strategy, branding, advertising. Sunil Chopra (Northwestern University) IBM Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems. Managerial Economics & Decision sciences, Operations, Operations management, network design, combinational optimization. James Conley (Northwestern University) Associate Professor/ MEAS Mech Engineering. Ph.D., Materials Engineering, Northwestern University. Strategic issues in managing Intellectual Property. Daniel Diermeier (Northwestern University) IBM Distinguished Professor of Regulation & Competitive Practice; Director of the Center for Business, Government & Society. Ph.D. from University of Rochester. Crisis management nonmarket strategy, management of political risk, business-government relations, political institutions, ethics. Timothy Feddersen (Northwestern University) Wendell Hobbs Professor of Managerial Politics. Ph.D. from University of Rochester. Political economy with a specific interest in democratic institutions and voting systems.

As a teacher who belongs to the faculty of HKUST, Kellogg’s global EMBA partner, I draw on my extensive research, consulting and teaching experience, and deliver real-world, cutting-edge content to the class. I find the Kellogg-Recanati students to be very bright, highly inquisitive, and as challenging to teach, as the EMBA students I teach in leading universities around the world. The KR EMBA program has an excellent reputation, and it is well-deserved".   Larry Franklin (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) Adjunct Professor of Finance and Law, Visiting Professor of Finance & International Management, MIT Sloan School of Management (Fall, 2002). JD/MBA from Stanford, CPA. Finance, investment, venture capital, business law and applied international strategy.  Boaz Galinson (Tel Aviv University) MBA Finance from Tel Aviv University. Financial risk managements, statistics mathematics, operational research. Jacob Glazer (Tel Aviv University) Professor of Economics. Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Industrial organization, health economics, economic theory. Julie Hennessy (Northwester University) Clinical Proffessor of Marketing Ashwin W. Joshi (York University) Director, MBA Program, Co-Director - York Consulting Group, Associate Professor of Marketing, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. Ph.D. from Queen's University. Research interests: new product development, salesforce management, and relationship marketing. Itay Kama (Tel Aviv University) Lecturer in Accounting. Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in Accounting. Financial statement analysis, role of accounting information in capital markets, equity valuation and financial management. Avner Kalay (Tel Aviv University and University of Utah) Professor of Finance. Ph.D. from University of Rochester. Dividends, corporate finance, financial markets, ex-dividend, costly contracting, market microstructure. Meir Karlinsky (Tel Aviv University) Senior Lecturer of Marketing. Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. Marketing strategy, pricing, marketing research. Lakshman Krishnamurthi (Northwestern University) A. Montgomery Ward Distinguished Professor of Marketing; Academic Director of the Executive Program on Pricing Strategies & Tactics. Ph.D. from Stanford University. Competitive strategy, new product strategy, pricing strategy, segmentation strategy, conjoint analysis, sales response estimation. P J Lamberson (Northwestern University) Senior Lecturer in Managment and Organizations Professor of Accounting Information and Management.He received his PhD in Mathematics from Columbia University in 2006. PJ’s research uses modeling to understand the theory and applications of social dynamics and networks. His research addresses questions such as how do information, products, and behaviors spread through networks, how should members be selected for a forecasting team, and why do people turn out to vote. Thomas Lys (Northwestern University) Gary A. Rosenberg Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Management; Professor of Accounting Information and Management. Ph.D. from University of Rochester. Analyst earnings forecasts and stock valuations, efficiency of analysts' earnings forecasts, implications of tax laws for the optimal structure of two-tier merger offers, properties of estimators of auto-correlation coefficients, and financial decision making. J. Keith Murnighan (Northwestern University) Harold H. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management. Ph.D. Purdue University. Leadership, negotiation, team building and decision making, particularly altruism, ethics, fairness, cooperation, power repentance and self-interest. Aharon (Roni) Ofer (Tel Aviv University) Professor of Finance. Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania. Corporate finance, capital structure, dividends policy, portfolio management, valuation, value based management.  Beppino Pasquali (York University) Financial and managerial accounting.   Since Kellogg-Recanati students are very bright, often oriented toward high-technology initiatives and entrepreneurship, teaching in this program creates an exciting, two-way learning environment where we all benefit. I gain new insights from my students, and they discover insights from me that I believe are strategically valuable and can be implemented immediately. This blend of theory and practice is a Kellogg hallmark, as is the school's global perspective on business - something that the longstanding Kellogg-Recanati partnership exemplifies". Artur Raviv (Northwestern University) Alan E. Peterson Distinguished Professor of Finance. Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Corporate finance, economics of uncertainty, informational economics and industrial organization. Leigh Thompson (Northwestern University) J. Jay Gerber Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Management. Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Negotiator behavior, emotion and creativity. Teamwork and leadership, creativity and innovation, learning and knowledge-transfer. Brett Saraniti (Northwestern University) Visiting professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences. PhD in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.  Asher Tishler (Tel Aviv University) Dean of the Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration. Professor of Management and Economics. Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Main research topics are focused on applied microeconomics, multivariate statistics, energy economics and defense related issues.    Karl Schmedders (Northwestern University) Ph.D. Stanford University, Associated Professor of Managerial Economic and Decision Sciences at Kellogg. Computational economics, data analysis, general equilibrium theory, optimization, probability, risk management. Ithai Stern (Northwestern University) Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. Ph.D.. from the University of Texas at Austin. Strategic choices, corporate governance, organizational evolution, diversification, and inter-organizational alliances in technology intensive industries.  Brian Uzzi (Northwestern University) Associate Professor of Management and Associate Professor of Sociology. Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Sociology. Social networks, complexity theory, and executive careers. Robert Weber (Northwestern University) Frederic E. Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Decision Sciences. Ph.D. from Cornell University. Game theory, information economics, auctions and bidding. Dan Weiss (Tel Aviv University) Lecturer in Accounting, Ph.D. from Tel-Aviv University. CPA. Managerial accounting, intangibles, performance measurement. Avi Zeevi General Partner & Co-Founder, Carmel Ventures. Mr. Zeevi is a veteran of the Israeli software industry and member of the Israel Venture Association. Eitan Zemel (New York University) W. Edwards Deming Professor of Quality and Productivity and Chairman Department of IOMS, Stern Business School, New York University. Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University. Optimization, analysis of algorithms, operations management.