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Shlomo Maital is a Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies, Technion and Professor (Emeritus) at Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He was the academic director of TIM Technion Institute of Management, Israel s leading executive leadership development institute and a pioneer in action-learning methods, from 1998 to 2009, working with over 200 high-tech companies and startups. He was summer Visiting Professor for 20 years at MIT Sloan School of Management for Management of Technology M.Sc. program, teaching over 1,000 research and development (R&D) engineers from 40 countries. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 12 books, including Technion Nation (2012), Global Risk/Global Opportunity (SAGE, 2009), Innovation Management (SAGE, 2007; 2nd edition, 2012), and Executive Economics (The Free Press, 1994), translated into seven languages. He was co-founder of SABE Society for Advancement of Behavioral Economics.Shlomo Maital is married, with four children and 12 grandchildren. He completed the New York marathon in 1985 in 3 hours and 51 minutes, and in April 2007, completed the Boston marathon in about 5 hours. In February 2008 he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and reached Uhuru Summit. In 2010 he climbed Mt. Kazbek, Georgia. He celebrated his 70th birthday with his children and grandchildren by completing a 70 km hike in the Dead Sea Mountains.