About the Authors

Boaz Ronen is a professor of technology management at Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Management, the Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electronics engineering from the Technion, Haifa, and a master's of science degree and a doctorate in business administration from Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Management. Before his academic career, he worked more than 10 years in the high‐tech industry. His main areas of interest are value enhancement and improving performance. In his work, he combines value creation, management of technology, the strategic and tactical aspects of the theory of constraints, and advanced management philosophies.

Ronen has provided consultation services for numerous corporations, health care organizations, and government agencies worldwide. During the past 20 years, Ronen has led a team that successfully implemented focused management, theory of constraints, and advanced management practices of value creation in dozens of industrial, high‐tech, information technology, health care, and service organizations.

Ronen teaches in the EMBA and MBA programs at Tel Aviv University. He has received the rectors' award for outstanding teaching. He was also a visiting professor at the schools of business of New York University; Columbia University; the Kellogg‐Bangkok program in Bangkok, Thailand; Stevens Institute of Technology; and at SDA‐Bocconi, Milan, Italy. He has published over a hundred ...

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