Dr. Ohad Ref

Head of MBA Programs, Faculty of Business Administration

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About

Head of MBA Programs, Researcher, Lecturer, and Strategic Consultant to leading Israeli and multinational firms. Formerly Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of leading Israeli industrial and commercial firms.

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow

2014 New York University, Stern School of Business

Ph.D

2013 Business Administration. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Business Administration

Visiting Ph.D. Student

2009 University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School

M.B.A

1996 Marketing. Tel Aviv University, Recanati School of Management

B.A

1988 Economics and Management. Tel Aviv University

Teaching Areas

Growth Strategy, Corporate Strategy, International Business Strategy, and Strategic Management.

Research interests

My main research interests encompass the behavioral theory of the firm, performance feedback, adaptive aspirations, firm risk-taking, the theory of the growth of the firm, and product and geographic diversification.

Selected Publications

Ref, Ohad., Songcui, Hu., Maxim, Milyavsky., Naomi, Feldman., Zur, Shapira (Forthcoming). Motivation and Ability: Unpacking Underperforming Firms’ Risk- Taking. Organization Science.
Ref, Ohad., Feldman, Naomi., Iyer, Dinesh., Shapira, Zur. (2021) Entry into new foreign markets: Performance feedback and opportunity costs . Journal of World Business, 56(6).
Ref, Ohad., Gnizy, Itzhak. (2021). Resource indivisibility, lumpy costs and the multinationality-performance relationship. International Marketing Review. 38(3), 539-563.
Ref, Ohad., Shapira, Zur. (2017). Entering new markets: The effect of performance feedback near aspiration and well below and above it. Strategic Management Journal, 38(7) 1416-1434.
Ref, Ohad. (2015). The relationship between product and geographic diversification: A fine-grained analysis of its different patterns. Journal of International Management, 21(2), 83–99.

CV

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