Gadi Ariav
Resident Scholar, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India and Associate Professor, Head, Max Perlman Center for Global Business, Recanati Business School, Tel Aviv University
Israel

More than 45 years of experience in the practice, research and teaching of the use of information technologies and systems in organizations. 12 years of experience in the study and teaching of high-tech entrepreneurship as well as international business strategy and business strategies in technology intensive companies in general and viz. China and India, in particular. Continuous active membership in the India-Israel Strategic Dialog Forum and an appointment as an advisor to the city of NanJing on High-Tech Industrial development. Almost 30 years of international academic career, primarily at Recanati Faculty of Management (Tel Aviv University), but also at NYU, UC Irvine, Claremont Grad. Uni., as well as Erasmus Uni. Academic director of Recanati’s EMBA programs (1994-2005), founder of the Kellogg-Recanati International EMBA program and the High-Tech Management School (HTMS). Current academic focus on the study of global management of innovation and the use of IT for decision support. Published among others in the ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, Journal of MIS, as well as the proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems. Holds a Ph.D. degree in Decision Sciences from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a M.Sc. in Management Science (Cum Laude), as well as B.A. degree in Statistics and Economics, both from Tel Aviv University.