Prof. Micki Eisenman

Micki Eisenman is a faculty member in both the Organizational Behavior and Strategy and Entrepreneurship Departments at the Hebrew University Business School; she is also Head of the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department.  Additionally, she is Academic Officer for Diversity and Gender Fairness. Professor Eisenman earned her PhD in Management from Columbia University, her MBA from Tulane University, and her BA in English and Communications from Hebrew University.

Professor Eisenman's recent research projects focus on examining organizational memory and how the collective understanding of an organization’s past affects its members in the present. These recent studies examine such questions in the context of professional disc jockeys and therapeutic psychedelics. Her earlier research dealt with the intersection between physical qualities of materials and their social interpretations; what is the role of aesthetic throughout the product life cycle and how organizations communicate by using aesthetic design. In these projects, she asks how the materiality of organizational artifacts impacts organizational processes such as identity construction, innovation, collective memory, or institutional change.

Before joining the business school faculty, Professor Eisenman served as an assistant professor at the City University of New York’s Baruch College. Her research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Theory, Human Relations, Advances in Strategic Management, Long-Range Planning, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Journal of Organizational Design, and Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. In addition, she is an editorial board member at the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, and Organization Theory.

Professor Eisenman has been awarded several research grants, including the Israel Science Foundation Grant, Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education, International Network Program, the Halbert Center for Canadian Studies at Hebrew University, the Julian Simon Grant, the Marie Curie Reintegration Grant, the PSC-CUNY Research Grant, a Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, and a William Stewart Travel Grant. She also won the Best Developmental Reviewer Award and Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Review.

She teaches the courses Organization Memory, Technology and Sociology, Business Policy, Business Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, and Growth Strategies.