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Dan Ariely
Behavioral Economist; Author of best-selling book Predictably Irrational

Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University and visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab. A behavioral economist, Ariely’s research has shown that we all succumb to irrationality in situations where rational thought is expected. He is an expert on how people actually act – and why they act – in all kinds of business and economic environments, and what this means for business innovation, strategy, marketing and pricing.

Ariely is the author of the new best-selling book, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, (HarperCollins), currently on the New York Times best-seller list. In this groundbreaking work, Ariely presents often humorous and peculiar research findings that provide new insights into human behavior – that will help us make better decisions as individuals, as corporations, and as a society.

Ariely received a Ph.D. in marketing from Duke University, a Ph.D. and M.A. in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.A. in psychology from Tel Aviv University.

He publishes widely in the leading scholarly journals in economics, psychology, and business. His work has been featured in a variety of media including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Business 2.0, Scientific American, Science, CNN, NPR, and he was interviewed for ABC's 20/20.

As a speaker, Ariely has a natural and unique talent for turning his research into vignettes that are fun, relevant and engaging, and for delivering the results in a genuinely charming, original, and often comical way.

Peter Cappelli
Leading Authority on Managing Workplace Talent, Professor of Management, Wharton School

Recognized as one of the world’s most important authorities on human capital, Dr. Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. His work focuses on human resource practices, talent and performance management, and public policy related to employment. He advises to organizations on the development of managerial and executive talent by helping his clients better understand how careers and career paths have changed, how these changes require companies to think about managing talent from a more strategic perspective, and how individuals should now think about managing their own careers. Peter was named one of the 25 most influential people in the field of human capital by Vault.com and one of the top 100 people in the field of recruiting by Recruiter.com. Additionally, he was elected to the National Academy of Human Resources, and—in 2004—named editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives.

Stan Davis
Visionary Business Thinker

Stan Davis is a prominent author, consultant, and speaker on the future of business. For more than 40 years, he has researched and documented the big shifts in science, technology, markets, and organization as they play out on business strategy and implementation. He has 13 books under his belt, with collective sales of more than 1 million copies in 15 languages. He coined the term “mass customization” in the 1980s in his bestseller, Future Perfect (recipient of Tom Peters's "Book of the Decade" Award). Other books include the bestselling Blur (with Chris Meyer), as well as 2020 Vision (will Bill Davidson), Future Wealth (with Chris Meyer), It’s Alive: The Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business (with Chris Meyer), and The Art of Business. His early career as an academic was spent primarily at the Harvard Business School. Stan is active with corporations and institutions as an advisor, educator, and guest presenter, having worked with Apple, AT&T, Bank of America, Citibank, Ernst & Young, Ford, JPMorgan Chase, Mercedes-Benz, and Sun Microsystems. He is longtime advisor to the board of the Massachusetts Medical Society, which publishes the New England Journal of Medicine, the world's most prestigious medical journal.

Tamara Erickson
Award-winning Author and Expert on Organizations, the Changing Workforce, and Generations at Work

Tamara Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author and widely respected expert on organizations and the changing workforce—on the shifting relationships between individuals and corporations—and on enhancing innovation and workforce productivity. Her work is based on extensive research on changing demographics and employee values and, most recently, on how successful organizations innovate through collaboration. Tammy offers a fundamentally optimistic point of view, along with fascinating trends and actionable counsel.

A popular and engaging storyteller. Tammy creates custom sessions for your group that are interactive and fun. She is skilled at keynotes, workshops, and innovative multi-day executive sessions.

Tammy co-authored four Harvard Business Review articles (the first, "It’s Time to Retire Retirement,” earned her the McKinsey Award), one MIT Sloan Management Review article, and the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent a guide for corporations. Her weekly blog “Across the Ages” is on HBSP Online. Tammy is currently writing a series of books, one for each generation, including the recently released Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation.

A respected authority on technology and its implications for business, Tammy also co-authored Third Generation R&D: Managing the Link to Corporate Strategy. The book is a widely accepted guide to making technology investments and managing innovative organizations.

Joe Fuller
Co-founder and CEO, Monitor Group

Joseph Fuller is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Monitor Group, a leading global consultancy. He joined Monitor at its inception and currently oversees the firm’s consulting operations in 27 offices globally. In this capacity, he works with clients in a wide variety of industries, especially those with a heavy reliance on technology. He has particularly deep experience in two of the world’s most dynamic sectors, life sciences and telecommunications, and has advised leading companies and important regulatory bodies in both industries. Some of Joe's areas of functional expertise include corporate strategy—including M&A strategy and integration—corporate governance, and organizational dynamics.

Joe's interest in research began during his collaboration with Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School on the development of the concepts presented in Porter’s book, Competitive Advantage. In recent years, Joe has focused his attention on the interaction of the capital markets and companies’ decision-making processes with a particular focus on the role of boards of directors.

Julie Gilbert
SVP Retail Training and Leadership Development, Best Buy, and a catalyst for women's leadership in business

A visionary business entrepreneur and motivator, Julie Gilbert has spent her career building businesses from ideation to scale. She is best known for her progressive company transformation strategy called WOLF, an innovative approach directly engaging employees and consumers to land Best Buy as THE place for women to work and shop.

Gilbert has demonstrated her commitment to developing the business and people through many capacities. Through her leadership, Best Buy has increased female market share by more than $3.6 billion and reduced female employee turnover by more than 5% each year. Gilbert also works to unlock the leader in every single employee by overseeing teams which develop and implement the training curriculum for the company’s 150,000 employees. In addition, her team is helping enable innovation by connecting employees with business ideas to networks of corporate support teams through a virtual web platform.

Previous new businesses include Magnolia Home Theatre, Virgin Mobile’s launch in the U.S., and a very large business she scaled while at Deloitte & Touche earlier in her career.

In 2008, The White House Project honored her with the EPIC "Circle of 10 Award" and Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal named her one of Minnesota’s Women to Watch. Gilbert also authors a monthly blog for PINK Magazine and contributes to the Harvard Business School blog.

Julie has a Masters in Business in strategy and marketing and undergraduate degree in accounting both from the University of Minnesota. She is a certified public accountant in the state of MN.

Ben Heineman
Former Chief Counsel, GE, Senior Fellow, Harvard JFK School

Ben W. Heineman, Jr. was General Electric’s Senior Vice President-General Counsel from 1987 until 2003, and then Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs from 2004 until his retirement at the end of 2005. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession and Senior Counsel to the law firm of Wilmer Hale.

A Rhodes Scholar, editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Mr. Heineman was assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and practiced constitutional law prior to his service at GE.

His new book, High Performance with High Integrity, was published in June, 2008 by the Harvard Business Press. He writes and lectures frequently on business, law and international affairs. He is also the author of books on British race relations and the American presidency. In 2007, he served on the Independent Review Panel on the World Bank Group’s Department of Institutional Integrity (the Volcker Panel).

Heineman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Science, Technology and Law and recipient of the American Lawyer’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award of Board Member Magazine. He serves on the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Transparency International-USA. He recently delivered the Oliver Smithies Lectures at Oxford University on the global anti-corruption agenda.

Rebecca Henderson
Business and Technology Strategist, Educator, Researcher

Rebecca Henderson is the Eastman Kodak Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School. Her focus is harnessing technology to support corporate strategy that creates value for business enterprises. An award-winning educator, she works with management teams in workshops and learning programs to transfer her groundbreaking ideas to the next generation of technology and business leaders. In 2001, she was named Sloan’s “Teacher of the Year.” She speaks frequently on a variety of topics, including Doing Strategy Right, Getting More Mileage from Your Innovation Resources, and Worse Before Better: Unjamming the R&D Project Queue. Her corporate clientele include Fortune 100 organizations and emerging technology-based enterprises. “With her colleague Nelson Repenning she is currently working on her first book‚ which highlights the role of overload in keeping organizations that are attempting to do significantly new things trapped in a recurrent cycle of stress and sub par performance.”

John Hogan
Strategic Pricing Expert

Pricing strategy is not simply about raising prices! It's about building a foundation for profitable growth. John Hogan, co-author of The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing 4th ed., is a recognized thought leader on the topic of strategic pricing and building pricing capabilities within the firm. As a partner at Monitor Group and leader in the strategic pricing practice, John has worked with clients to develop more effective pricing strategies in technology, software, distribution, manufacturing, financial and professional services, and pharmaceutical sectors.

In addition to his client service responsibilities, John is responsible for managing the development of solutions to emerging pricing challenges. This effort has led to several pricing innovations such as using decision and risk analysis techniques to develop pricing strategies and a comprehensive approach to help organizations measure, diagnose and systematically build sustainable pricing capabilities. These efforts are driving the development agenda for the next generation of pricing frameworks and tools to help firms elevate pricing from a tactical function to a strategic lever to drive profitable growth.

John promotes his pricing strategy ideas in a variety of speaking settings, including major conferences, workshops and smaller executive briefing sessions. John is on the editorial board of the Journal of Service Research, where he recently won an award for the best article on service marketing

Prior to joining Monitor, John worked as a Vice President at Strategic Pricing Group and as a Marketing Professor at Boston College where he conducted award winning research into the valuation and pricing of marketing assets. He began his career as a corporate pricing manager at General Motors headquarters in Detroit. He grew up amidst the cornfields of Indiana, received his B.S. from Auburn University in Electrical Engineering, his M.B.A. from Indiana University, and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina.

Paul Horn
Distinguished Scientist in Residence, NYU; former Director of IBM Research

Dr. Paul M. Horn was named NYU Distinguished Scientist in Residence and NYU Stern Executive in Residence in September of 2007. Prior to his NYU position he was Senior Vice President of the IBM Corporation and Executive Director of Research. In this job he directed IBM’s worldwide Research program with 3200 technical employees in eight sites in five countries around the world, and helped guide IBM’s overall technical strategy. Dr. Horn transformed IBM’s research and development model into an engine of innovation and growth. Under his watch, IBM created the Deep Blue and Blue Gene supercomputers, pioneered the use of copper and "self-assembly" in chip manufacturing, and created new disciplines in autonomic computing and services science. Dr. Horn was a champion for translating technology based research into marketplace opportunities. Trained as a solid state physicist he has held, key management positions in science, semiconductors, and storage; successfully applying these disciplines to solving real world technology problems. Dr. Horn’s top priority as head of IBM’s Research Division was to stimulate innovation and innovative business model and quickly bring those innovations into the marketplace to sustain and grow IBM’s businesses, and to create the new businesses of IBM’s future.

Born in New York, Dr. Horn graduated from Clarkson College of Technology and received his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Rochester in 1973. Prior to joining IBM in 1979, Dr. Horn was a professor of physics in the James Franck Institute and the Physics Department and at the University of Chicago. Dr. Horn is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow from 1974-1978. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a former Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters and has published over 85 scientific and technical papers.

Dr. Horn has received numerous awards including the 1988 Bertram Eugene Warren award from the American Crystallographic Association, the 2000 Distinguished Leadership award from the New York Hall of Science, the 2002 Hutchison Medal from the University of Rochester, and the 2002 Pake Prize from the American Physical Society. In 2003 Dr. Horn was named as one of the top computing business leaders in the US by Scientific American magazine. He is also a member of numerous professional committees including three in Washington: the GAO (General Accountability Office) board of advisors, the Gallaudet University Advisory Board, and the board of trustees of the Committee for Economic Development. He is also on the Clarkson University and the New York Polytechnic Board of Trustees, the UC Berkeley Industrial Advisory Board, and is a trustee of the New York Hall of Science.

John Kao
Innovation Strategist and Practitioner, Transformation Catalyst

John Kao is an authority on the intersecting subjects of corporate innovation and transformation, design, and the future of business. Dubbed a “serial innovator” and “Mr. Creativity” by The Economist, he has made a career out of helping organizations go from “getting” the importance of innovation to “getting innovation done.” John has worked with a wide range of Fortune 500 companies, startups, and government agencies around practical issues of strategic innovation and organizational transformation. Other nicknames he acquired from his clients include “the Innovation Sherpa” and “the Innovation Guru.”

In addition to his other accomplishments, John is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, Tony-nominated producer, and business pioneer. For 14 years, he taught at Harvard Business School, where he developed courses, lectures, and executive seminars that addressed the topics of entrepreneurship, venture management, innovation, leadership, and organizational change. He has also been a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab as well as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Innovation at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.

John's new book on the global dynamics of innovation is called Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters and How We Can Get It Back. It pays particular attention to what America’s innovation posture needs to be in a world in which many countries are racing for the innovation high ground, such as Singapore, Denmark, Dubai, China, and Brazil.

Larry Keeley
Innovation Master

Larry Keeley is a business advisor and speaker who has worked to develop more effective growth strategies and innovation methods for over 27 years. He is president and co-founder of Doblin Inc., a Monitor Group company and a partner in the Monitor Group. By applying proprietary, comprehensive innovation systems, Doblin has consistently and materially improved its clients’ innovation success rates.

BusinessWeek recently named Keeley one of seven Innovation Gurus who are changing the field, and specifically cited Doblin for having many of the most sophisticated tools for delivering innovation effectiveness.

Since 1979, Keeley has worked on innovation effectiveness at companies including Aetna, American Express, Amoco, Apple, BP, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Ford, GE, Hallmark, McDonald’s, Monsanto, Motorola, Novartis, Pfizer, Shell, SKT, Steelcase, Target, Texas Instruments, WellPoint, Whirlpool, and Zurich Financial Services. He lectures frequently and publishes regularly on strategic aspects of innovation. His forthcoming book on innovation effectiveness, The Taming of the New, is expected next year.

Larry teaches graduate innovation strategy classes at the Institute of Design in Chicago, the first design school in the U.S. with a Ph.D. program, where he is also a board member. He lectures at executive education programs at Kellogg Graduate School of Management and in their Masters of Manufacturing Management program, and at business schools around the world. Keeley was a Senior Fellow of the Center for Business Innovation, in Boston. He is also a board member for Chicago Public Radio, where he has charted strategy for what has become the most innovative station in the public radio network in the U.S.

Eamonn Kelly
Futurist, Change Agent, and Strategic Thought Partner

Eamonn is the CEO and president of Global Business Network (GBN), the renowned futures network and scenario strategy consultancy. He has developed insights, tools, and methodologies for mastering uncertainty and has consulted to dozens of the world’s leading corporations in many sectors and global and national public agencies. Prior to joining GBN, Eamonn was head of strategy at Scottish Enterprise, one of the world's most respected development agencies, where he led the creation of effective strategies for economic and social development in a new era. In his recently acclaimed book, Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World, Eamonn weaves together seven powerful “dynamic tensions” that will fundamentally reshape human life in the coming decades. He offers breakthrough insights into how these tensions will conflict and interact to create huge waves of change beyond anything society has experienced previously.

Steve Kerr
Senior Advisor, Goldman Sachs; Expert on Leadership Development

Steve Kerr is a Senior Advisor at Goldman Sachs. As the former Chief Learning Officer (CLO), Steve's work has helped foster the firm’s values; namely, putting clients’ interests first and creating a culture that emphasizes integrity, excellence, innovation, and teamwork. He helps the executives he trains develop leadership skills and professional expertise in an environment that encourages mobility.

A pioneer in his field, Steve was one of the first corporate educators to hold the CLO title, which he assumed during his tenure at General Electric (GE). He spent more than seven years at GE as CLO and vice president of leadership development, where he reported to Jack Welch and was responsible for GE's renowned leadership education center at Crotonville.

He joined Goldman Sachs in March 2001 and immediately began working to expand the distinctive Goldman Sachs culture at Pine Street, the learning arm of the company that touches some 2,500 of Goldman Sachs’ 20,000 global and domestic employees.

Previously, Dr. Kerr served on the faculties of Ohio State University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Michigan. He was dean of the faculty of the USC business school from 1985 to 1989.

Dr. Kerr is a past-president of the Academy of Management, the world's largest association of academicians in management. He is an acknowledged author, editor, and speaker, and he has contributed to many academic and popular publications on management and organizational behavior. His well-known publications are The Boundaryless Organization (Jossey-Bass, 1995; co-author); Ultimate Rewards (Harvard Business School Press, 1997; editor); and a FORTUNE article titled "Risky Business: The New Pay Game" (July 22, 1996). Dr. Kerr earned a Ph.D. in management and organizational psychology from the City University of New York.

Joel Kurtzman
Author, Advisor on Global Competitiveness

Joel Kurtzman is a noted author and advisor to leading organizations around the world in the areas of social capital, governance, and assessing and managing global risk. His expertise is highlighted by his long, successful career forecasting global events, from oil-price shocks to the dollar’s ups and downs. Joel’s vantage point in understanding and relating business implications comes from the fact that he has held both positions of senior strategic business leader and journalist responsible for reporting and translating business issues. Whether presenting to business leaders or government officials, Joel presents his ideas with one overarching concept in mind: provide thought leadership that creates value and sustainable growth.

Edward Lawler
Human Resource & Organizational Effectiveness Expert

Edward E. Lawler III is Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and founder and director of the University's Center for Effective Organizations (CEO). CEO has been recognized by Fortune and other publications as one of the country's leading management research organizations.

Professor Lawler has been honored as a major contributor to theory, research, and practice in the fields of human resources management, compensation, organizational development, and organizational effectiveness.

BusinessWeek has proclaimed Lawler one of the top six gurus in the field of management, and Human Resource Executive called him one of HR's most influential people. Workforce magazine identified him as one of the 25 visionaries who have shaped today's workplace over the past century. National television appearances include The Today Show, CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC.

Professor Lawler is the author and co-author of 36 books. His most recent work, Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness, co-authored with Christopher G. Worley, is a groundbreaking book that shows how organizations can be "built to change" so they can last and succeed in today's global economy.

Professor Lawler is the recipient of many awards including SHRM's Michael R. Losey award for which he was the first recipient. He is also a consultant to many governments and corporations including the majority of the Fortune 100.

Charlene Li
Author and Expert on Social Media and Marketing

Charlene Li is an influential thought leader and guide on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies, interactive media, and marketing. She is the co-author of the business bestseller, "Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies", published by Harvard Business Press in May 2008.

Charlene is one of the most frequently-quoted industry analysts and has appeared on 60 Minutes, The McNeil NewsHour, ABC News, CNN, and CNBC. She is also frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USAToday, Reuters, and The Associated Press. She is a much-sought after public speaker and has presented frequently at top technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo-where she now serves on their Advisory Board, SXSW, and adTech.

Most recently, Charlene was a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. She joined Forrester in 1999, after spending five years in online and newspaper publishing with the San Jose Mercury News and Community Newspaper Company.

She is a graduate of Harvard Business School and received a magna cum laude degree from Harvard College.

Alaina Love
Expert on Purpose-Driven Organization and Leadership

Alaina Love, president of Purpose Linked Consulting (PLC), an international leadership and organization consulting firm, knows first-hand that when employees are passionate about their jobs, organizations and individuals benefit from what passion ignites: job satisfaction and increased morale, retention, productivity and results.

Love brings twenty-six years of corporate executive and consulting experience to large Fortune 500 firms as well as small, independent companies and hospitals. Prior to founding PLC, she spent more than twelve years at Merck & Co., Inc. where she was executive director of human resources, a research scientist and clinical researcher.

Love advises and speaks to organizations on how to make purpose and passion the centerpiece of their leadership agenda. She has developed a broad range of comprehensive HR and organization development tools including, The Passion Profiler™, which is used to assess employees’ purpose as work-related passions. Alaina is the co-author of The Purpose Linked Organization, to be released in 2009, Leading with Purpose™ and Renaissance Reconnections™.

Love is a graduate of the University of Michigan Business School’s Change Leadership Program, studied human resources at Rutgers University and medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and holds an undergraduate degree in medical technology from Monmouth University. Alaina has been awarded the distinction of Senior Professional in Human Resources by the Society of Human Resource Management. Alaina’s work has taken her to Asia, Europe, Canada and Latin America.

Chris Luebkeman
Architect, Engineer, Designer of the Built Environment

Chris speaks widely to the issues of sustainability and thoughtful design. He applies the lessons learned in the design of the built environment to businesses of all kinds. His keynotes, workshops, and strategy sessions are created for executives seeking better design sensibility for their products, services, and processes. Through his unique user-centric methods, Chris helps clients better understand the needs and desires of consumers, customers, and citizens.

Chris runs the global Foresight and Innovation initiative at Arup, a global design and engineering firm and a leading creative force behind many of the world's most innovative projects and structures. In his role, he conceives new ways of building—recyclable buildings, reusable offices, and furniture that can decompose—and works with some of the world’s largest companies to develop what he calls ‘plausible futures’ to better understand the opportunities that change is creating for them in the built environment.

In his book, Drivers of Change 2006, Chris and the Foresight team at Arup look at 50 important factors that will affect our world, arranged in a framework known as STEEP (social, technological, economic, environmental and political). Designed as a collection of notecards, the book provides a tool for discussion groups, as personal prompts for workshop events, or as “thoughts of the week.” The cards are designed to encourage deeper consideration of the forces driving global change and the role that individuals can play in creating a more sustainable future.

Christopher Meyer
Author and Advisor on the Future of Business

Chris Meyer is chief executive of Monitor Networks, a unit of the Monitor Group focused on fostering business innovation through designing, growing, and learning from human networks. Chris writes and speaks about the trends shaping business and economic developments. His most recent book is It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business (co-authored with Stan Davis). He also co-authored the best-selling Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy and Future Wealth with Stan Davis, and he has contributed to the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Fast Company, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Business 2.0. Chris’s recent research and consulting have focused on the development of the Adaptive Enterprise, helping companies create the capacity to sense, respond to, and adapt to changes in their business environments.

Gary Pisano
Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Gary Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Since joining the Harvard faculty in 1988, he has taught both MBA and executive level courses on technology and operations management, operations strategy, competitive strategy, product development, the management of innovation, and health care. He currently serves as chair of the Technology and Operations Management Unit.

Professor Pisano’s research has examined technology strategy, the management of product and process development, organizational learning, and vertical integration and outsourcing strategies. For the past 20 years, Pisano’s research has also focused on strategy, R&D, and competition in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. His research has led to insights about appropriate licensing, manufacturing, and R&D strategies for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Pisano is a widely published author with over 25 research papers published in such journals as Management Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Harvard Business Review. He has also written case studies on such companies as BMW, ITT-Automotive, Intel, Merck, Eli Lilly, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals. He is the author of The Development Factory, a book investigating the strategies and practices leading to superior development performance in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Pisano has also written Operations, Strategy, and Technology, with co-authors Robert Hayes, David Upton, and Steve Wheelwright. His most recent book, Science Business: The Promise, The Reality and The Future of Biotech, examines the evolution of the economic and strategic challenges facing the biotechnology sector. The book was released by HBS Press in November 2006.

Professor Pisano has served as an advisor to senior managers at such companies as Amgen, Biogen, Becton Dickinson, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Siegfried Pharmaceuticals, State Street Bank, and Teradyne, assisting them in creating business and operating strategies and in improving product development performance. At several of these companies, Professor Pisano has been directly involved with the management team in the implementation of these efforts. In addition, Pisano has served on the Board of Directors and Advisory Boards of a number of start-up companies.

Professor Pisano holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and B.A. in economics from Yale University.

Michael Porter
Seminal Authority on Competitive Strategy

Michael E. Porter is indisputably the foremost authority on modern competitive strategy.

Generally recognized as the father of the modern strategy field, Professor Porter has been identified in a variety of rankings and surveys as the world’s most influential thinker on management and competitiveness. His expertise spans competitive strategy, the competitiveness and economic development of nations, states, and regions, and the application of competitive principles to social problems such as health care, the environment, and corporate responsibility.

He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, based at Harvard Business School. A University professorship is the highest professional recognition that can be awarded to a Harvard faculty member. In 2001, Harvard Business School and Harvard University jointly created the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, dedicated to furthering Professor Porter’s work.

He is the author of 17 books and over 125 articles, including his seminal works: “The Competitive Advantage of Nations,” which has guided economic policy in countless nations and regions; and “Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors,” in its 63rd printing and which has been translated into 19 languages. His book "Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results" (2006; Harvard Business Press) is influencing thinking and practice not only in the United States but numerous other countries. "On Competition" (Harvard Business Press) was re-issued with new and expanded content in October 2008. Professor Porter has received six McKinsey Awards for the best Harvard Business Review article of the year, including an unprecedented four first-place awards.

Professor Porter has served as a strategy advisor to top management in numerous leading U.S. and international companies, among them Caterpillar, DuPont, Procter & Gamble, Royal Dutch Shell, Scotts Miracle-Gro, SYSCO, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. He currently serves on the board of directors of Thermo Fisher Scientific Corporation and Parametric Technology Corporation, and is senior strategy advisor to the Boston Red Sox.

He is actively involved in assisting governments and advising national leaders in the U.S. and abroad, including Armenia, Ireland, India, Kazakhstan, Libya, Nicaragua, Portugal, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.
The Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development is based on his thinking about economic development for groups of neighboring countries.

Extending his work on competitiveness to states, provinces, and other sub-national regions, Professor Porter led the Clusters of Innovation project, which developed a framework for economic policy in U.S. regions. In addition, he is dedicated to addressing the relationship between competition and important social issues such as poverty, health care delivery and the natural environment. He has devoted growing attention toward economically distressed communities and poor and developing countries.

Professor Porter founded three major non-profit organizations: The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and FSG-Social Impact Advisors. He also currently serves on the Princeton University Board of Trustees.

He received a B.S.E. with high honors in aerospace and mechanical engineering from Princeton University in 1969, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. He received an M.B.A. with high distinction in 1971 from the Harvard Business School, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1973.

Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Professor Porter lived and traveled throughout the world as the son of a career Army officer. At Princeton, he played intercollegiate golf and was the New England champion. He was named to the 1968 NCAA Golf All-American Team. After graduating from college, Professor Porter served through the rank of captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. He maintains a long-time interest in the esthetics and business of music and art, having worked on the problems of strategy with arts organizations and aspiring musicians. Professor Porter has two daughters and resides in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Peter Schwartz
World-Renowned Futurist and Strategist

Peter Schwartz is co-founder and current chairman of the Global Business Network (GBN), the world’s preeminent member organization focused on scenario thinking and planning, where he leads programs for corporations, governments, and non-profit institutions. His current research and scenario work encompasses energy resources and the environment, technology, life sciences, telecommunications, media and entertainment, aerospace, and national security. A prolific author, Peter’s most recent book, Inevitable Surprises, offers a provocative look at the complex forces at play in the world today and their implications for business and society. His first book, The Art of the Long View, is considered a seminal publication on scenario planning and has been translated into multiple languages. Peter addresses many different audiences in corporate board rooms, at conferences on issues such as global warming and human life extension, and at the World Economic Forum. He led the scenario team at Royal Dutch/Shell in the 1980s, where many of the scenario tools were pioneered. He has even lent his futurist skills to Hollywood as a script consultant on such films as The Minority Report, Deep Impact, Sneakers, and War Games.

Clay Shirky
Writer, Consultant, and Teacher on New Media and the Internet

Clay Shirky is a writer, educator, and consultant on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He is an adjunct professor at New York University (NYU) in their graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he teaches courses on the interrelationships of social and technological networks, particularly how they shape culture and vice-versa. He consults to a variety of organizations on network technologies, and is an acknowledged expert on collaboration tools, social networks, peer-to-peer sharing, collaborative filtering, and Open Source development. Clay has spoken and written extensively on the Internet since 1996, with regular columns in Business 2.0, FEED, OpenP2P.com and his own shirky.com blogsite. He has appeared in The New York Times, Time, The Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, and others. In his new book, "Here Comes Everybody", Clay explores how organizations and industries are being upended by open networks, collaboration, and user appropriation of content production and dissemination.

Steve Weber
Political Economist and Critically Acclaimed Author

Steve Weber is professor of political science at UC Berkeley, where he directs the multi-disciplinary Institute of International Studies. His research and consulting work consistently breaks new ground in areas as diverse as health care telecommunications, U.S. foreign and intelligence policy, software markets, and the emerging geopolitical issues of the 21st century, particularly around Sino-American relations. His advisory work has benefited organizations as diverse as IBM, the CIA, The Ford Foundation, Chiron, and the Library of Congress. His most recent book, The Success of Open Source, is an internationally acclaimed study of the political economy of the open source software community (2004 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition, Computer and Information Science).

Andreas Weigend
Leading Behavioral Marketing Expert; Former Chief Scientist, Amazon.com

Andreas Weigend is the former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com and an expert in data mining and computational marketing. He currently teaches the graduate course Data Mining and Electronic Commerce at Stanford University, and the executive course Technology, Information and Innovation in Shanghai. As an independent consultant, he now helps data-intensive organizations make strategic decisions based on analytics and metrics. His applied research is in fields including behavioral economics, time series analysis, and computational finance. His career as a scientist, data strategist and quantitative methods innovator gives him a unique ability to bridge the gap between industry and academia.

He served as Amazon.com's Chief Scientist until January 2004, where he developed data mining techniques including session-based marketing, and designed applications ranging from heuristic cross-selling to customer network and lifecycle analysis. Previously, in 1999, he co-founded MoodLogic, voted "best music organizer" by C|NET. He was also the Chief Scientist of ShockMarket, creating information products and trading models based on real-time data from online brokerages, leveraging principles of behavioral finance.

Andreas has published more than one hundred scientific papers and co-authored six books. He has also served as a full-time faculty member at New York University's Stern School of Business, and at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received an IBM Partnership Award and a National Science Foundation Career Award. Andreas studied electrical engineering, physics, and philosophy at Karlsruhe, Cambridge (Trinity College), and Bonn University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in physics in 1991, and was a researcher at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and at the Santa Fe Institute.

Lawrence Wilkinson
Executive, Advisor, and Commentator on the Future of Media and the Consumer

Lawrence Wilkinson provides strategic counsel and venture design services through the firm Heminge & Condell, based in San Francisco. He has been an active entrepreneur and advisor in the media and related businesses for more than 30 years. He helped create such diverse companies as Oxygen Media, Global Business Network (GBN), Ealing Studios, and Design Within Reach. Today, Lawrence continues to serve as Vice Chairman of Oxygen Media, Inc., which he co-founded with partners Geraldine Laybourne, Oprah Winfrey, Carsey-Werner-Mandabach, and Disney. Oxygen currently provides a cable television service reaching more than 40 million households in the U.S. (contracted to grow to a minimum of 60 million by the end of 2008) and award-winning web services. Lawrence continues to keep his hand in the film production world, serving as a director and advisor to Ealing Studios, Ltd.

Shoshana Zuboff
Leading Thinker on Capitalism and the Consumer

Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (retired), where she joined the faculty in 1981. One of the first tenured women at the Harvard Business School, she earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University and her B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago.

Author of the celebrated classic, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988), Professor Zuboff has been called “the true prophet of the information age”. In the Age of the Smart Machine won instant critical acclaim in both the academic and trade press—including the front page review in the New York Times Book Review—and has long been considered the definitive study of information technology in the workplace.

In 1993, Professor Zuboff founded the executive education program “ODYSSEY: School for the Second Half of Life” at the Harvard Business School. The program addressed the issues of transformation and career renewal at midlife. During 12 years of her teaching and leadership, ODYSSEY became known as the best program of its kind in the world. She is currently completing a new book that will make the ODYSSEY program available to a wide audience.

In 2006, strategy+business named Professor Zuboff among the 11 most original business thinkers in the world. She was featured in 2004 as a “Creative Mind” in strategy+business, described as “a maverick management guru…one of the sharpest most unorthodox thinkers today.” From 2003 to 2005, Zuboff shared her ideas on the future of business and society in her monthly column “Evolving,” in the magazine Fast Company. Professor Zuboff has also been featured on CNBC, Reuters International, and the Today Show as well as in Fortune, Inc., BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, CIO, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and many other news outlets. Boston Magazine voted her one of the “Five Smartest People in Boston.” She has been heard on more than 200 radio shows, including top coverage on NPR’s Marketplace, TechNation, Sound Money, Morning Edition, BBC, and BBC World Service.

Professor Zuboff has published dozens of articles, essays, book reviews, and cases on the subject of information technology in the workplace, as well as on the history and future of work and management. Her scholarly monograph “Work in the United States in the Twentieth Century,” appears in the Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century (1996). Her lectures on “The Information Society” are featured in the Smithsonian’s permanent exhibition on “The Information Age.” She has served on editorial boards including the Harvard Business Review, the American Prospect, and Organization. She has been awarded research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health.

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