Chairman: Professor Lester Thoreau,     Managing Director: Yoram Yahav

TIM, the Technion Institute of Management in Tel Aviv, turns to the upper management echelons of Israel’s largest and leading companies, in the framework of one of the most ambitious management programs for business executives in Israel.

TIM is a non-profit organization set up and supported by leading business figures from Boston (Friends of the Technion Organization), its aim being to improve the global capabilities of Israeli executives. TIM identifies, preserves and develops Israeli business leadership that will move the economy forward in the coming years, bringing with it foreign investors to Israel.

This aim is attained through the nurturing of Israeli executives from global companies, which have the best prospects of standing at the global forefront of the market they operate in. The candidates are required to successfully perform a string of tasks, which prepare them to be open to the reform and assimilation of measurable processes in their companies. These processes are defined in advance by the company’s management and the TIM team. The community of TIM alumni consists of 650 senior managers and executives chiefly from Israel’s industrial sector.

Participating in the TIM program are established companies and hi-tech firms. The companies must present an orderly plan for jumping a league in their operations. The program is heavily subsidized, and those companies interested in taking part in the group’s activity must fund part of the overall cost: established companies around $100,000 and start-up firms $35,000.

The program’s activities include workshops in Israel and the U.S., conducted by the “action learning” method, as well as study tours in countries with impressive management capabilities.

The workshops are held once a month for several days at hotels and at the companies, and are conducted by internationally known lecturers and eminent figures from the academic world from around the world, who serve also as heads of business administration faculties at MIT, Harvard, Cloogs, Boston College, Insead in France and MID in Switzerland.

The TIM program is the first of its kind in the world, in which the participants work on a practical project that is included in the company’s objectives. An example of this is a delegation from Teva, whose task was to boost the plant that Teva had just acquired in Hungary.

Included among the coaches and instructors at the Institute are: Eli Horowitz – Chairman of Teva, Boaz Dotan – one of the founders of Amdochs, Yigal Bar Yosef – former CEO of Digital and Pelephone, Yair Shamir – Chairman of El Al, Uzi De Han – former senior executive at Phillips,  Alon Domnis – Director of the Van Leer Institute Investment Fund,  Ed Melabesky – Chairman of Gemini, Avi Dagan – CEO of Eshed Consultants, Shuki Gleitman and Erna Barry – former Chief Scientists, Uziah Galil – and many others.

Included among the participants in the Institute’s activities are the senior management echelons from some 65 companies, such as Teva, Strauss, Intel, Comverse, Check Point, Orbotec, Ormat, GE, IBM, Elite, Netafim, Bezeq International and others.