The Faculty of Management at Recanati is comprised of academic scholars and industry experts alike. Roughly one third of Sofaer professors teach abroad on a regular basis. In addition to distinguished professors from Tel Aviv University, the Sofaer iMBA faculty brings visiting professors from other institutions for special courses throughout the year.
In the Spotlight
Itay Kama
Itay Kama is a lecturer in accounting at Tel Aviv University. He received his Ph.D. in accounting from Tel Aviv University in 2005 and subsequently worked as a visiting assistant professor of accounting at London Business School. His main research topics are focused on financial statement analysis, role of accounting information in capital markets, earnings and cash manipulation, and equity valuation.
Itay Kama started to lecture at Tel-Aviv University in 1998. He teaches financial accounting and financial statement analysis and valuation in the International MBA program, Kellogg-Recanati program, Executive MBA program, and special programs for senior managers. His professional experience includes working in the consulting departments of PwC and Ernst & Young.
For more about Itay Kama, download his resume.
Peter Bamberger
Peter A. Bamberger is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University, and senior research scholar at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. He has been serving as Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal since 2007. Current research interests include peer relations and helping processes in the workplace, and employee emotional wellbeing, and HR Strategy. Co-author of Human Resource Strategy (with Ilan Meshulam Sage, 2000) and Mutual Aid and Union Renewal (with Samuel Bacharach and William Sonnenstuhl , Cornell Univ. Press, 2001), Bamberger has published over 60 referred journal articles in such journals as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Cornell University in 1990, and joined the HR Division of the Academy of Management in that same year.
He also teaches at Cornell (Ithaca, NY, USA), Queens Univ. (Kingston, ONT, Canada), ESCP (Paris, France) and Tong Ji University (Shanghai, China). Recent publications are listed in his CV.
For more information on Peter Bamberger, download his CV.
Yuval Kalish
Yuval Kalish has completed a BA in psychology from Hebrew University, an a combined MA in industrial/organizational psychology and a PhD in social/mathematical psychology from the University of Melbourne.
He is academic administrator of the Leadership and Social Network program in Lahav, and is part of the management committee and staff of the Evens Program for Conflict Management at Tel Aviv University. His research has been published in Social Networksand Asian Journal of Social Psychology as well as other edited volumes, including Advances in the Social Sciences series.
For Yuval Kalish’s complete profile, visit his page on the Recanati Faculty of Management site.
Stephen Sammut
Steve has a career that is both commercial and academic. Outside of Wharton, Steve is Venture Partner, Burrill & Company, a merchant bank and venture capital fund focused on the life sciences and health care. His role there is general management of overseas venture capital funds, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.
Academically, he currently holds an appointment as Lecturer, Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs and Senior Fellow, Wharton Health Care Management. During his 18 years at Wharton, he has created eight courses throughout the University that he has taught to over 5000 students. Steve’s primary areas of research coincide with his venture activity: health care and biotech capacity building in the emerging markets; private equity and venture capital approaches to economic development; and, the role of the private sector in addressing needs in global health.
He holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Villanova University in biological sciences and philosophy, attended Hahnemann Medical College for two years, and holds an MBA from the Wharton School.
Nir Brueller
Dr. Nir Brueller has been teaching regularly at prestigious MBA and executive programs at Tel Aviv University and INSEAD, Fontainebleau and Singapore. In addition to core courses on strategic management he developed and taught several original electives on corporate strategy, M&A in high-tech industries, technology transfer, and high-technology commercialization. Nir holds a Ph.D. in Management (Strategy) from Tel Aviv University, an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD, and both a M.Sc. and a B.Sc. (Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. During the last years Dr. Brueller was also an Affiliated Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD. His PhD dissertation on value creation and capture in technology-grafting acquisitions won the Yoram Rosenfeld Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize (2006) and one of his studies was honored with Strategic Management Society Best Paper Prize (Winner, 2007).
For more information on Nir Brueller, download his CV.
