Prof. Slomo Maital [born Richard Alan Malt*] is emeritus professor at Technion and senior research fellow at the Neaman Institute. During 1998-2009, he served as Academic Director of TIM-Technion Institute of Management, and worked with some 200 high-tech companies (established and start-ups), and some 1,000 managers. For 20 years, he was a visiting professor at MIT Sloan School Management during the summers. He has written, co-authored or edited over a dozen books.
His current research focuses on the following topics: SNI Wheel of Life (visual quantification of the quality of life in Israel); a method for fostering creative thinking; and editing a book on technology transfer from Academe to industry.
He writes a regular column for the fortnightly magazine Jerusalem Report.