Jacob Goldenberg is a Professor of Marketing at the Arison School of Business Administration at the Inter-Disciplinary Center at Hertzelia and a visiting professor at the Columbia Business School. His research focuses on creativity, new product development, diffusion of innovation, complexity in market dynamics social networks effects, and social media. He is an Academic Trustee of the Marketing Science Institute.

Until recently, Jacob was the editor- in-chief of the International Journal of Research in Marketing and area editor for Journal of Marketing Research, and serves on the editorial board of Marketing Science. He has published papers in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, Marketing Science, Nature Physics, and Science. In addition, he is an author of two books by Cambridge University Press and a forthcoming book in Chicago Press, and one book by Simon & Schuster.

Jacob’s scientific work has been covered in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, BBC News, Herald Tribune, The Economist, and Wired magazine. He is a cofounder of SIT,  a systematic innovation consulting firm

He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in a joint program of the School of Business Administration and Racach Institute of Physics.