Ayelet Israeli

Harvard Business School

Ayelet Israeli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School Marketing Unit. She teaches the Rethinking Retail course in the MBA elective curriculum (EC), the Data Driven Marketing course in the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP), and in various Executive Education programs. She has previously taught the Marketing course in the first year MBA required curriculum (RC), and the E-Commerce: Strategy, Growth, and Analytics course in the EC. 

In her research, Ayelet studies omni-channel and e-commerce markets. In particular, she focuses on pricing, channel management, online marketing, and marketing analytics. Her research has been published in leading marketing journals including Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, and Management Science. Her dissertation won the 2014 INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award, and she was named a finalist for the 2018 and the 2019 Frank M. Bass Award. Her work has been cited by The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, MSN Money, and Harvard Business Review.

Ayelet received her PhD in marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She holds an MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she also earned her MSc and BSc in computer science. In addition to her academic experience, Ayelet served as a lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces and worked as an engineer at Israel Aerospace Industries and at Intel Corporation in Israel.