Prof. Sharon Arieli

Sharon Arieli is an associate professor in the Strategy Department at the Hebrew University Business School, and is the Director o f the MBA program.

Prof. Sharon Arieli studies how values influence behavior in the workplace across individuals, organizations, and nations. Her research examines the personal and situational factors that motivate people to pursue meaningful goals, solve problems creatively, and engage in prosocial behavior.

She focuses on creativity and prosocial behavior, exploring how these behaviors can be encouraged in the short term through mindset shifts and sustained in the long term through value change. By integrating psychological theory with organizational contexts, her work highlights how values drive innovation, collaboration, and resilience in modern workplaces. In her recent research, Prof. Arieli also leverages advances in artificial intelligence to detect values of employees and organizations from texts, and develops chatbots that simulate and convey different motivational orientations, offering new tools for studying and shaping workplace behavior.

Looking ahead, Prof. Arieli aims to deepen our understanding of the future of work in light of rapid technological advancements, examining how values shape adaptation, creativity, and well-being in an era of profound change.

Prof. Arieli earned her PhD in Business Administration; an MBA, and a BA in Business Administration and Communications from the Hebrew University. Prof. Arieli has served as a Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan.

Her research has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Cognition, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Journal of Personality, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

She won the Abe Gray President’s Prize for Excellence and the Golda Meir Fellowship. Additionally, she has been awarded several grants, including the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF).

She teaches the courses Generative Tools for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Global Competence: Thriving in Multicultural Landscapes, Strategic Management, and Practical Workshop in Management.