Special issue on the Theory of Constraints – Practice and Research

Abstract

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 BSc in Electronics Engineering from the Technion, Haifa, Israel, and an MSc and PhD in Business Administration from Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Management. Prior to his academic career he worked for over 10 years in the Israeli Hi-Tech industry. His main areas of interest are focused on increasing shareholders’ value. In his work he combines value creation, management of technology, information systems, the strategic and tactical aspects of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), and advanced management philosophies. He has consulted to numerous corporations and government agencies worldwide. During the last 18 years Professor Ronen has been leading a team that successfully implemented TOC and advanced management practices of value creation in dozens of industrial, hi-tech, IT and service organizations. Professor Ronen teaches in the EMBA and MBA programs at Tel Aviv University. He has been commended numerous times and got the Rectors’ award for outstanding teaching. He was also a visiting professor at the schools of business of NYU, Columbia University, the Kellogg-Bangkok program at the Sasin Graduate Business School, Stevens Institute of Technology and at the MBA program of SDA-Bocconi (Milan, Italy). Prof. Ronen has published over 100 papers in leading academic and professional journals, and co-authored three books on Value Creation, Focused Management, Managerial Decision Making and Cost Accounting.