1 Ellis Shmuel
Shmuel Ellis is a (full) professor of social psychology and organizational behavior at the College of Management Academic Studies.
He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Tel Aviv University in 1985. During the years 1988-2015 he was on the faculty of the Coller (formerly, Recanati) Graduate School of Management and for several years served as the Head of the Department of Management and the Academic Director of the Organizational Consulting Program. From 1990 to 1992 he was visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. During the years 2015-2017 he was the head of the Department of Psychology, College of Management Academic Studies and from 2016 to 2017 he was also the Vice President for Academic Affairs (Rector) of the College.
His main areas of interest are reflection interventions and learning from successes vs. failures, organizational genealogies, entrepreneurship, imprinting and knowledge transmission. Shmuel Ellis has published in top-tier journals such as Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Judgment and Decision Making and Current Directions in Psychological Science.
1 Muhammad Asali
Professor Muhammad Asali’s research and teaching interests include applied microeconomics, labor economics, statistics, econometrics, and time series econometrics. Asali served as a Professor of Economics and the Head of Graduate Studies at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University. He is also a research fellow at IZA, the institute of labor economics in Bonn, Germany. At SIPA of Columbia University he is the professor for the MPA in Economic Policy Management program’s Microeconomics.
Asali received his BA in Accounting and Economics and his MA in Economics, all with distinction, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2008.
Muhammad Asali previously held visiting professorships at Columbia University, at New York University, and at Union College. His research has appeared in the Journal of Applied Econometrics, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economics of Transition, Southern Economic Journal, Applied Economics Letters, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, and Defence and Peace Economics, among others.
Personal Web Page: https://sites.google.com/site/muhammadasali/
2 Balzam Adva
Dr. Adva Balzam is a lecturer and researcher in media, a psychologist and non-fictional TV creator.
2 Bitan Michal
Dr. Michal Bitan is a lecturer in the Computer Science department. She develops courses in statistics and probability relevant to data science.
Michal holds a BSc in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, a MSc in Biostatistics and a PhD in Biostatistics both from Tel-Aviv University.
As part of her doctoral thesis, she developed models for planning effective studies using R software. Throughout her career, Dr. Bitan worked in the high-tech industry. Due to her love and passion for research and teaching, she has returned to academia as a lecturer and a researcher in the field of statistics and biostatistics since 2006. She has published articles in prestigious scientific magazines.
2 Daniels Shiri
Dr. Shiri Daniels is the Head of the Educational Counseling masters’ program at Colman – The College of Management. She is the National Director of Counseling at ERAN – Israel’s largest hotline for emotional first aid via the telephone and internet. Dr. Daniels is an expert in listening skills, emotional first aid, online counseling, short-term counseling and crisis intervention.
Dr. Daniels is a member of the National Council of Suicide Prevention and the National Council of PTSD – Ministry of Health. As a preparedness, response and resilience expert dealing with national emergencies at ITC (Israel Trauma Coalition), she is an active participant in delegations and psycho-social training teams around the world.
Dr. Daniels is the author of “The Power of Listening – Helping those close to you in times of emotional distress and crisis” (2015) and “Analog Pain in a Digital Age – Positive coping with separation and divorce” (2018), published in Israel by Matar Publishing House.
Dr. Daniels has a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa in the field of educational counseling, a Master’s degree in counseling, specializing in art therapy and bibliotherapy, and a Bachelor’s degree from Tel Aviv University in educational counseling, sociology and anthropology.
2 Yosef Revital
Revital Yosef is a faculty member at the School of Economics of the College of Management Academic Studies. Her research interests span empirical Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, and primarily Executive Compensation. She holds a B.A degree in Economics, M.B.A and Ph.D. degrees in Finance from Bar-Ilan University. Prior to academia, she worked as a Senior Valuation and Financial Analyst at a leading consulting firm.
2 Leibowitz Menahem
Dr. Menahem Leibowitz is a researcher and lecturer in the fields of network and cyber security. Menahem holds a PhD, MSc and BSc in computer science from Bar-Ilan University.
His research interests are network and cyber security in general, and in particular anonymous communication, privacy, key management and usable security.
2 Finger-Keren Maya
Dr. Maya Finger-Keren completed her doctoral studies in finance at Ben-Gurion University. She is currently a faculty member, lecturer and supervisor in the Faculty of Business Administration at The College of Management Academic Studies. Her areas of research include; finance, impact, ESG and entrepreneurship and she promotes local and global knowledge development in these fields.
Dr. Finger-Keren also serves as a director in public and international companies.
2 Youcht Adi
Adi Youcht joined the Law Faculty at the College of Management Academic Studies in the Fall of 2021. She holds a PhD, LL.M (magna cum laud), and LL.B (magna cum laud) from the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. She is a former Visiting Research Fellow at Columbia Law School, and a former Visiting Researcher at Berkeley Law School. She completed her postdoctoral studies at the Sciences Po École de Droit and L’École Des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Prior to her doctoral studies, she articled clerk at the State Attorney’s Office Department of Criminal Appeals in Jerusalem.
Youcht’s main areas of interest are Tort Law, Criminal Law, Sociology and Philosophy of Law and Bioethics, Law and Medicine, Body and Law, Jurisprudence of Identities, Disability Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Science and Technology Studies, and Law & Culture.
2 Katsabian Tammy
Tammy Katsabian (PhD) is a senior lecturer at the Haim Striks Faculty of Law at the College of Management Academic Studies. She is the founder and moderator of the labor law and technology lab. Her research is dealing with labor rights in the digital reality, with a specific focus on questions of privacy, equality, working from home (“telework”) and the gig economy. Tammy has a PhD degree from the law faculty of the Hebrew University, an L.L.M degree from Yale Law School and Tel-Aviv University (cum laude) and an L.L.B degree from Bar Ilan University (cum laude). She was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Law School and was awarded a Fulbright-ISEF Postdoctoral Fellowship and Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her post doctorate research project. In the past, Tammy was the executive director of the Clinical Legal Education Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and served as the clinical and academic advisor of the Women’s Rights at Work Clinic. Tammy’s work was published in top-ranking journals, such as the Modern Law Review, McGill Law Journal, and Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law.
Research areas and interests: Labor Law; Women’s Studies; Law and Society; Law and Technology