Our Advisory Board

Professor Joshua Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor in Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations, particularly policies on innovation and how they impact firm strategies. He has authored several books and publications including The Architecture of Innovation, The Comingled Code, Innovation and Its Discontents, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, The Money of Invention, Patent Capital, and The Venture Capital Cycle. 

Professor Lerner co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program and serves as co-editor of their publication, Innovation Policy and the Economy. He founded and runs the Private Capital Research Institute, a nonprofit devoted to encouraging access to data and research, and has been a frequent leader of and participant in the World Economic Forum projects and events.

He is the winner of Sweden’s Global Entrepreneurship Research Award and the Cheng Siwei Award for Venture Capital Research. 

Professor Lerner holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Economics Department and graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major.

Professor Ella Miron-Spektor is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD. Her research focuses on personal and organizational factors that promote creativity, learning, and entrepreneurial success. She studies team characteristics that contribute to innovation and learning, the formation of entrepreneurial teams, strategies that enable leaders to cope with competing demands at work, and the influence of cultural diversity on creativity. 

Professor Miron-Spektor’s award-winning research studying factors that contribute to team innovation and learning has been published in top management journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Applied Psychology. 

Her work has been profiled in media outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes, CBS, and NBS news. She co-organized several international conferences, including the Academy of Management Specialized Conference: From-Start-up to Scale-Up in 2018. She serves on the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science and as Guest Editor for Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Academy of Management Discoveries. 

Professor Miron-Spektor holds a Ph.D. from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University.

Professor Scott Stern is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management. He was previously a Professor at the Kellogg School of Management and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. 

Professor Stern’s research explores how innovation and entrepreneurship differ from traditional economic activities, and the consequences of these differences for strategy and policy. His research in the economics of innovation and entrepreneurship focuses on entrepreneurial strategy, innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems, and innovation policy and management. In 2005 he was awarded the Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship.

Professor Stern works with practitioners in bridging the gap between academic research and the practice of innovation and entrepreneurship through advising startups and other growth firms in the area of entrepreneurial strategy, as well as working with governments and other stakeholders on policy issues related to competitiveness and regional performance. He is the director and co-founder of the Innovation Policy Working Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  

Professor Stern holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and a B.A. in Economics from New York University.

Professor Eli Talmor is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at London Business School and Founder of its Institute of Private Equity. He has served on the board of Governors of London Business School, Tel Aviv University and the advisory board of the African Venture Capital Association. He was previously on the finance faculty at the University of California (UCLA and Irvine), Tel Aviv University and the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania).

Professor Talmor practices venture capital and is a serial cornerstone investor and the co-founder of SunRay Renewable Energy which was acquired in Europe’s largest venture exits of 2010.

He is the co-author of Private Capital,  considered the reference book on the private equity industry. 

Professor Talmor holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.Sc. (cum laude) from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Professor Moshe Zviran is Dean of the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University, and a Professor of Information Systems. He is the Isaac Gilinsky Chair of Entrepreneurship, Technology, Innovation and Management, and serves as the Academic Director of the Eli Hurvitz Institute for Strategic Management and the Coller Institute of Venture. 

Professor Zviran’s research interests include entrepreneurship and innovation, information and cyber security, and information systems planning and policy. He has published numerous articles and authored two books on Information Systems. He is a consultant for leading organizations in Israel and serves as a board member in several companies and organizations. 

Professor Zviran held academic positions at the Naval Postgraduate School, The Claremont Graduate University, and Ben-Gurion University. 

Professor Zviran holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Information Systems as well as a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.