Biographical Brief

Professor Emeritus Yaakov Weber

President, EuroMed Research Business Institute
President, EuroMed Academy of Business

Prof. Yaakov Weber teaches courses on Strategic Management, Mergers and Acquisitions Management, Strategic Alliances, Corporate Strategy, Cross Cultural Management, and Global Strategic Management. He lectured in various universities in United States (for example NYU), Western and Eastern Europe and China, in graduate schools of business administration as well as Executive programs, in private and public organizations as well as Industrial Associations for CEOs and Directors. He also participating and conducting international Ph.D. seminars, in PhD committees as well as referee in international PhD exams. 

Prof. Weber’s studies were published in top leading international academic journals, such as Strategic Management Journal. Journal of Management, Management Science, Journal of Business Research, California Management Review, and Human Relations, among others. His  research papers received more than 10000 citations in leading journals and books. Several papers were selected by various academic collections and were described as represent “the most significant new material” and, “most important works published in Sociology” (in 1996).  Other papers are “2nd most cited in last 5 years (2010-2015) and “most read” (2011-2015), or “most download” in 2017, in leading journals. He served as associate editor and in editorial boards of several journals and act as a referee for numerous leading journals. He is Guest Editor for special issues in leading journals, such as California Management Review, Human Resource Management, Journal of World Business, and more. Recently Prof. Weber is the winner of the Outstanding Author Contribution Award. His book that was invited by Financial Times, A Comprehensive Guide for Mergers and Acquisitions, was published. This and his other books, can be seen in AMAZON. Currently, he is co-editor of 3 book series at EMERALD, Rutledge, and Palgrave Macmillan.

 Prof. Weber is Co-Founder and Co-President (for the last 10 years) of the EuroMed Business Research Institute (www.emrbi.org), the EuroMed Academy of Business and the EuroMed Research Centre. One of recent conferences of the EuroMed Academy of Business took place in Mumbai (2020).

Prof. Weber has been senior consultant to CEOs, top executives and directors in leading domestic and international companies such as Coca-Cola, Dead-Sea Works, Society of Israel Plastics & Rubber Manufacturers, largest International Engineering company in Israel,  Health-care Organizations, The USA-Israel Chamber of Commerce, large and small organizations in Chemical industry, High-Tech industry and many others in various industries as well as to the largest international consulting firm in Israel. His recent large project of international consulting was to an international merger in Moscow, Russia. Prof. Weber conducted numerous workshops to top executives in many countries. Recently he conducted workshop to the senior executives of one of the 4 largest investment companies in China.