pdf Conference 2010: Justmeans Interviews Bernard Avishai

Bernard Avishai is Adjunct Professor of Business at Hebrew University. Most recently, he was Visiting Professor at the Fuqua School of Business and Senior Fellow at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is former Dean of the Raphael Recanati International School and Director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program, at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya.

Avishai has written widely on intellectual capital, business strategy, and on education and the corporation, in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Strategy and Business, and other business publications. He is also the author of a comprehensive case study for Motorola University, Motorola in China: The Duties of the Global Economy, which traces the course of the company's entry strategy in the PRC. He has written dozens of articles on politics and international affairs in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper's, Fortune, and many other publications. He is author of the entry on Knowledge Management in MBA in a Box (Joel Kurtzman, ed.) Most recently, he reviewed Paul Krugman's, The Return of Depression Economics, for The Nation, and is working on the American auto industry following his cover story, "The Connected Car," about the Chevy Volt's networked ecosystem, in Inc. Magazine.

From 1986 to 1991, Avishai was strategy and technology editor of Harvard Business Review, where he brought to publication over 60 articles on quality management, technology strategy, and corporate learning. He was, from 1992 to 1996, the head of product development at Monitor Company, and from 1998 to 2001, the International Director of Intellectual Capital at KPMG LLP. He holds a Ph.D. in political economy from the University of Toronto, and has published three books on the political economy of Israel and the Middle East conflict, most recently, The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At Last, (Harcourt, 2008). Avishai was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987 for his work on the writer Arthur Koestler, which has appeared in the New Yorker, Partisan Review, and Salmagundi. He blogs at TPM Café and bernard avishai dot com.

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