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Vision

The Haifa Graduate School of Management aims to be at the leading edge of teaching
and academic research that is relevant to a broad range of Israeli industries and commercial sectors in the global environment.

Basic Facts

The School of Management at the University of Haifa was founded in 1996. The founding director of the School was Prof. Eliezer Schleifer, followed by Prof. Nahum Biger, and then Prof. Ilan Meshoulam. The School is situated on the beautiful campus of the University of Haifa, on Mount Carmel, just south of the city of Haifa, nestling within the Carmel Mountain National Park (http://gsb.haifa.ac.il ).

In 2007 the Graduate School of Business consolidated its new identity as the School of Management by offering seven differentiated MBA and MA programs. The School takes pride in its high quality educational programs and intensive academic research activities, as well as its involvement in Israeli society and the economy. We are presently developing a post-graduate doctoral program, incorporating an additional Department for Natural Resources Management, strengthening relations with industry and expanding our international contacts.

The School, now headed by Professor Sheizaf Rafaeli, offers the following executive-level MBA programs.
♦  A regular MBA, taught mostly in Hebrew for men and women in mid-career

♦ An International MBA, taught entirely in English, focusing on doing business in Asia

♦  An MBA dedicated to developing managers of Non-Profit Organizations
♦  An MBA dedicated to developing managers of Schools and other Educational Institutes

♦  An MBA dedicated to developing managers of Real Estate Businesses and Assessors.

 

We also have an MA program in the Management of Natural Resources, and a budding program in the Management of Energy Resources. Several additional programs, including a program on Knowledge Management, are in final stages of development and approval.

All of our students are graduates or post graduates, many of whom are senior executives, military officers, physicians or high ranking government officials. A large number already hold graduate degrees in various fields, and for them the MBA will be an additional graduate degree. More than half the students are engineers and most of our students are employed in managerial positions.

Courses are arranged to be offered and attended in concentrated chunks of the workweek. All of our MBA programs run for approximately 16 consecutive months, counted as two academic years. As most are mid-career executives, the average age of our students is well over 30, reaching 38 in some programs.  Each program cohort consists of a class of 30-45 students. A large part of the curriculum is aimed at these tightly integrated cohorts, emphasizing team work, group study and peer-learning.

The MBA Programs are taught by the School's fulltime (research) faculty members bolstered by dozens of adjunct  lecturers who are specialists in various practical subjects, and are recruited per subject, as visitors from abroad, from other institutions and from industry.

The School also has 30 students at various levels of study for a Doctoral degree and operates two centers of research, focusing on specific issues:
 

-  The Center for the Study of Organizations & Human Resource Management (COHRM)
(http://organizations.haifa.ac.il).
-  The Center for the Study of the Information Society (INFOSOC)

(http://infosoc.haifa.ac.il).
The School also has a "Games for Executives" initiative (http://games.yeda.info).
 

Uniqueness

Our students are more senior and seasoned than the average MBA student body.
At the same time, our academic vision is one of the most  innovative and forward looking in the country. We were the first to offer dedicated programs focused on Real Estate, on the management of third sector (non-profit) organizations, and on the management of educational institutions. We lead the Schools of Business and Management in the country in the development and implementation of online simulations and executive games, as well as the construction and use of other computerized learning tools. Our international MBA program focuses on Asia and is a pioneer in its field.  We are unique in Israel in our focus on general management (rather than specializations in disciplinary areas). Our programs have been ranked as very desirable, and on some dimensions the best in the country by both Israeli press surveys and international assessment bodies.

The School has a proud and active alumni base, perhaps the best alumni group in the country (over 1000 satisfied graduates).

Haifa's MBA programs put exceptional emphasis on building bridges between academia and industry. The regular program includes a special course where all the students meet leading Israeli CEO's, to listen and learn their best practices and how they cope in a volatile business environment. In addition CEOs and other leading industrialists give
guest lectures in special "Business Forums" and within selected courses.

Haifa's International MBA Program focuses on doing business in Asia and features a
Joint International Seminar in participation with SIMBA (the Shanghai International MBA Program at the University of TongJi). While other universities run trips to China, the Haifa MBA program is the only one that integrates multiple methods of learning and includes mixed Israeli-Chinese student teams working together on problem solving business projects for Israeli companies in China. We are developing other programs oriented internationally, including a focus on India, and a focus on cooperation in the Middle East.