Yael Grushka-Cockayne

Yael Grushka-Cockayne is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School. Yael’s research and teaching activities focus on project and project portfolio management, strategic and behavioral decision-making, and new product development. Yael’s research is published in numerous academic and professional journals. She is a regular speaker at international conferences in the area of decision analysis, project management and management science. She is also an award-winning teacher, and has taught courses at various universities and organizations.

Yael holds a PhD in Management Science and Operations from the London Business School. Before starting her academic career, she worked in San Francisco as a marketing director of an Israeli ERP company. As an expert in the areas of project management, Yael has served as a consultant to international firms in the aerospace and petroleum industries.

Yael was a finalist for the Practice Award of the Decision Analysis Society and for the Daniel Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research and a finalist in the 2007 Case Competition held by the Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS). She is a UVA Excellence in Diversity Fellow and a member of INFORMS, the Decision Analysis Society, the Operational Research Society and the Project Management Institute (PMI).