Professional Biography
Gad Allon teaches the Management in Education course for the Education Entrepreneurship program. He is the Jeffrey A. Keswin Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, and the director of the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Allon received his Ph.D. in Management Science from Columbia Business School in New York and holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Israeli Institute of Technology. He is an award-winning educator, teaching courses on scaling operations and operations strategy and was recently named among the “World’s Top 40 B-School professors under the age of 40.” He has also been an innovative leader in many educational technology initiatives. He is the co-founder of ForClass, a platform that enables professors to drive higher student engagement and accountability in their classrooms. Professor Allon regularly consults with firms both on service strategy and operations strategy.
