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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's more recent research examines changes in employment relations in the U.S. and their implications. Publications on the subject matter include, The New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce, which examines the decline in lifetime employment relationships, Talent Management: Managing Talent in an Uncertain Age, which outlines the strategies that employers should consider in developing and managing talent (named a "best business book" for 2008 by Booz-Allen), and his most recent publication, The India Way: How India's Top Business Leaders are Revolutionizing Management, which describes a mission-driven and employee-focused approach to strategy and competitiveness.

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. He currently serves on commissions for The Business Roundtable, the World Economic Forum, and the U.S. Department of Labor.

Clayton Christensen
Foremost Authority on Disruptive Innovation; Professor, Harvard Business School

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. He is the author or coauthor of six books including the New York Times bestsellers The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution. In 2008, he released Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, a groundbreaking examination of America's education system through the lens of disruption. His forthcoming book, The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care, applies the principles of disruption to the nation's broken health care system.

Professor Christensen’s research and teaching interests center on managing innovation and how to create new growth markets. Through co-founding Innosight, a management consulting and training firm based near the Harvard Business School in Watertown, Massachusetts, Professor Christensen and his colleagues sought to make practical the theories of disruption by focusing on problems of strategy, innovation and growth. Professor Christensen’s theories of disruptive innovation are practiced and implemented today through the company’s work with clients ranging from Proctor & Gamble to Johnson & Johnson to Best Buy to Time Warner.

Professor Christensen holds a B.A. with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University (1975), and an M.Phil. in applied econometrics and the economics of less-developed countries from Oxford University (1977), where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar. He was awarded his DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1992.

A seasoned entrepreneur, Professor Christensen has founded three successful companies. The first, CPS Corporation, is an advanced materials manufacturing company that he founded in 1984 with several MIT professors. The second, Innosight, was founded by Professor Christensen with the company’s current chairman, Mark Johnson, in 2000. Innosight Capital, the third firm, was launched in 2005. Christensen is also a co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm, and Innosight Institute, a non-profit think tank.

From 1979 to 1984, Professor Christensen worked with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In 1982 he was named a White House Fellow, and served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. He became a faculty member at the Harvard Business School in 1992.

Professor Christensen’s seminal work, The Innovator’s Dilemma received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published in 1997, and The Innovator's Solution was also a New York Times best seller. His two most recent works – Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, and The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care – examine the problems of our public education and healthcare systems through the lenses of his theories and show how the problems in these industries can be resolved. He is also the author of Seeing What’s Next and the editor of two case books on innovation: Innovation and the General Manager and Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation.

Professor Christensen's writings have won a number of additional awards, including the Best Dissertation Award from The Institute of Management Sciences; the Production and Operations Management Society's William Abernathy Award for the best paper in the management of technology; the Newcomen Society’s award for the best paper in business history; and the 1995 and 2001 McKinsey Awards for articles published in the Harvard Business Review.

Professor Christensen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He worked as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Republic of Korea from 1971 to 1973 and speaks fluent Korean. He currently serves his church as an Area Authority Seventy, and recently published an essay about his beliefs, entitled “Why I Believe”.

Rob Cross
Expert on Human Networks Within Organizations

Rob Cross is a professor of management at the University of Virginia and Research Director of The Network Roundtable, a consortium of 75 organizations sponsoring research on network applications to critical management issues. His research focuses on how relationships and informal networks in organizations can be analyzed and improved to promote competitive advantage, innovation, customer retention and profitability, leadership effectiveness, talent management and quality of work life.

Rob has worked directly with more than 200 strategically important networks across over 120 well-known organizations in consulting, pharmaceuticals, software, electronics and computer manufacturers, consumer products, financial services, petroleum, heavy equipment manufacturing, chemicals, and government. Ideas emerging from his research have resulted in two books, four book chapters and 23 articles, several of which have won awards. In addition to top scholarly outlets, his work has been repeatedly published in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Academy of Management Executive and Organizational Dynamics. His most recent book, The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations (Harvard Business School Press), has been featured in venues such as Business Week, Fortune, The Financial Times, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CIO, Inc and Fast Company.

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

Tamara J. Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author and widely respected expert on collaboration and innovation–on building talent and enhancing productivity–and on the nature of work in the intelligent economy. Her work is based on extensive research on the changing workforce and employee values and, most recently, on how successful organizations innovate through collaboration. Tammy has authored or co-authored numerous Harvard Business Review articles, including “It’s Time to Retire Retirement,” winner of the McKinsey Award, an MIT Sloan Management Review article, and the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent. She recently completed a trilogy of books on how individuals in specific generations can excel in today’s workplace: Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation, What’s Next, Gen X? Keeping Up, Moving Ahead and Getting the Career You Want and Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work.

An interactive, engaging keynote presenter, Tammy consistently earns high praise. In fact, she was the #1-rated speaker at SHRM's 2006 Annual Conference Master Series. Tammy offers a fundamentally optimistic point of view, along with fascinating trends and actionable counsel. Perhaps more importantly, she will build-to-suit, depending on your learning objectives. Her blog, Across the Ages, appears on the Harvard Business Review site where it is the highest-rated blog. Her entries address how the talent shortage and shifting employee values will create opportunities for individuals—and challenges for corporations that aren't prepared! Tammy's article "Leading Across the Ages" was one of Harvard Business Review's Breakthrough Ideas of 2008. HarvardBusiness.org created a Best of 2007, a collection of the editors' favorite content from the entire year. Three of the 19 selections are based on Tammy's work.

Dean Esserman
Highly Acclaimed Police Chief

He’s not a typical police chief. By promoting novel approaches like “social justice” and community policing, Dean Esserman transformed the once-corrupt Providence, RI police department and—along the way—earned national recognition modeling leadership in his profession. He has attracted the attention of business leaders intrigued by his innovative, invigorating management style and his ability to affect large-scale change. All of this from a former pre-med student.

Dean’s journey to his current role as the Providence Chief of Police began unconventionally during his sophomore year at Dartmouth College. He was studying history and pre-med when he accepted an off-term internship through Dartmouth’s Medical School to help design and establish a medical rescue unit for the New York Transit Police. The experience changed Dean, who became fascinated by the unexpected responsibilities required by cops in their daily work. As America’s first responders, police are called to handle myriad social situations—women in labor, landlord disputes, even malfunctioning heating systems in tenement buildings. Dean realized that—through a career in law enforcement—he could make a real, measurable impact on his community. Dean decided to forego a degree in medicine and pursue law school instead, and so began his lifelong passion and commitment to public service.

After graduating from NYU Law School, he served as Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn and then General Counsel to the New York Transit Police. During his tenure in New York, he found a mentor in Chief William Bratton, one of the nation’s most visible, successful police chiefs. Dean remains Bratton’s protégé today. “I could see from the start he was just this very bright individual with a New York background and someone with one of the most extensive collections of books about police and crime I’d ever seen,” recalls Bratton, the current chief of the LAPD.

Dean left his New York post to serve as the Assistant Chief of Police for New Haven, CT. There, he implemented the city's first community policing plan and the state's first federally-funded drug gang task force, and he cut crime city-wide.

Following his position in New Haven, Dean assumed the Chief of Police role for the M.T.A. Metro North Police Department, where he led an agency-wide terrorism threat-assessment study and implemented a multi-million dollar security upgrade at Grand Central station. In 1998, he was appointed Chief of Police in Stamford, Connecticut, where his philosophy of community-oriented policing contributed to a 50% reduction in the city’s crime rate.

In January 2003, when new Providence Mayor David Cicilline took office, the police department had been accused of favoritism and corruption. Cicilline’s predecessor, Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci, had created a criminal enterprise riddled with corruption, and crime was ever-escalating. One of the mayor’s first orders of business was to turn the police force around, and he called on Dean Esserman to do it. Since then, Chief Esserman has revamped the city’s crime-fighting force and replaced the department’s traditional methods with a community policing concept. The results? An inspired command staff, a double digit drop in Providence’s overall crime rate for three years running, and a transformed city.

Dean is a graduate Dartmouth College (B.A.) and New York University School of Law (J.D.). He holds a faculty appointment at the Yale University Child Study Center. He is a member of the New York and Massachusetts Bar and currently serves as the Senior Law Enforcement Executive-in-Residence at the Roger Williams University Justice System Training and Research Institute.

Joe Fuller
Organization and Strategy Expert; Founder, Monitor Group

Joseph Fuller is a co-founder 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.

Ben Gomes-Casseres
Strategy and Alliance Expert

Ben Gomes-Casseres is an expert on global strategy, with a focus on business combinations. Ben consults, teaches, and speaks worldwide on international business, alliance strategy, and acquisition strategy. He has researched this topic for 20 years, taught it to MBAs and executives, and consulted with major companies in the United States and abroad. He is best known for his writings and consulting on alliance strategy, but he has also worked on international management, competitive strategy, technology policy, mergers and acquisitions, and organizational development.

Ben is currently a Professor at Brandeis International Business School, where he directs the MBA Program and the Asper Center for Global Entrepreneurship. Previously, he was a professor at the Harvard Business School and an economist at the World Bank. He is principal and owner of Alliance Strategy Consulting.

He has written or edited four books; his latest, Mastering Alliance Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide to Design, Management, and Organization, gives practical advice on how to use alliances as part of corporate strategy. His book The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry was one of the first in-depth studies of today’s high-tech alliances, and introduced the idea of competition among alliance “constellations.” His articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Strategy & Business, Sloan Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Financial Economics, and elsewhere. His work has been cited widely, including in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harvard Management Update. He has also written numerous cases at Harvard Business School; his case on the development of Fuji Xerox in Japan is an HBS bestseller.

He holds a BA in History and Economics from Brandeis, an MPA in Economic Development from Princeton, and a DBA in International Business from Harvard. Born and raised in Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles), he speaks four languages (English, Dutch, Spanish, and Papiamentu), and is a dual citizen of the United States and the Netherlands.

Rebecca Henderson
Business and Technology Strategist, Educator, Researcher

Rebecca Henderson is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School. Previously, she held the position of 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.” Rebecca was most recently appointed to the Amgen Board of Directors where she will serve as a member of the Corporate Responsibility and Compliance and Governance and Nominating Committees of the Board.

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.

Eamonn Kelly
Futurist, Change Agent, and Strategic Thought Partner

Eamonn Kelly sits at the forefront of exploring the emergence of a new economic, social, and geopolitical order and its far-reaching consequences for organizations and individuals.

A partner at Monitor Group, Eamonn leads the firm's network, thought leadership and marketing initiatives. For 10 years previously, he served as 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 highly 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.

Joel Kurtzman
Leading Champion of Better Management Practice

Joel Kurtzman is a noted author and advisor to leading organizations around the world in the areas of leadership, 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.

Donald Laurie
Strategist, Venture Capitalist, and Leadership Innovator

Don Laurie is an expert on institutionalizing business innovation and developing processes and capabilities for achieving new platform growth. In his role as Managing Partner of Oyster International LLC, he works with chief executives and senior management teams to develop their leadership agenda and define their role and value added in these value creating activities.

In addition, Don manages spinouts that have been developed within large, global corporations and guides investments in venture opportunities that serve the strategic, portfolio and growth ambitions of his clientele.

Don is author of The Real Work of Leaders and Venture Catalyst: The Five Strategies for Explosive Corporate Growth, as well as co-author of The Work of Leadership, a Harvard Business Review classic. During 2003, he led the Harvard Business Review, INSEAD and Oyster International research: The CEO Agenda and Growth. He is a frequent speaker at corporate management conferences, Michael Hammer Conferences, BusinessWeek roundtables, and such high–profile venues as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Don is an investor in and advisor to a number of venture-backed companies in Boston. During his tenure at Arthur D. Little, Inc., he worked on the development and implementation of strategies for technology–based businesses. Prior to joining Arthur D. Little, he was managing director of a Merrill Lynch subsidiary and, over the course of ten years with Xerox Corporation, he held a number of line and staff positions. Don earned an MBA from Columbia University.

Nell Merlino
Leading Advocate for Women’s Role in the Economy; Creator of Take Our Daughters to Work Day

Throughout her career, Nell Merlino has been inspiring millions of people to take action. Nell is founder, president, and CEO of Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence, the leading national not-for-profit provider of resources for women to grow their micro businesses into million dollar enterprises through its signature program, Make Mine a Million $ Business. She is the creative force behind Take Our Daughters to Work Day, which moved more than 71 million Americans to participate in a day dedicated to giving girls the opportunity to dream bigger about their futures. Nell has worked on campaigns for the YWCA, The Week Without Violence, The United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, and in two state governments. She was an advance woman in presidential campaigns, a union organizer, and a Fulbright Scholar, and has received numerous awards, including the Fulbright Award for Outstanding Achievement, The Forbes Trailblazer Award, and the Matrix Award for Achievement in Communications.

Robert H. Miles
Authority on Corporate Transformation and Renewal

Renowned thought and practice leader in the fields of corporate transformation, organizational effectiveness, culture change, and executive leadership, Bob Miles is a gifted business advisor, process architect, and executive speaker. Bob pioneered the Accelerated Corporate Transformation (ACT) methodology, a powerful approach for accelerating and achieving breakthrough results across a variety of corporate transformation challenges. By applying the ACT methodology, CEOs are able to greatly compress and accelerate the process for launching an organization’s new direction or executing a new set of initiatives.

Bob is the President of Corporate Transformation Resources and Senior Advisor on corporate transformation to Monitor. He also is a co-founder and Chairman of Galloway Consulting Group, a healthcare transformation consulting firm.

Frequently serving as a Senior Advisor to executive teams as they plan, launch and refocus corporate transformation efforts, Bob has been intensely involved in shaping some of the world’s most important business transformations for companies such as General Electric, IBM Global Services, National Semiconductor, Office Depot, the PGA TOUR, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rockwell International, Southern Company and Symantec, as well as a number of emerging high-tech companies.

He has authored many books on corporate transformation and organizational effectiveness, including most recently Corporate Comeback: The Story of Renewal and Transformation at National Semiconductor, Leading Corporate Transformation: A Blueprint for Business Renewal, and Big Ideas to Big Results. He recently had a lead article in the Harvard Business Review, titled "Don't Lose Your Nerve—Accelerating Corporate Transformations," in which he shared the major insights from his quarter-century of work in support of major corporate transformations. He is a frequent speaker on these topics to senior executive audiences.

Bob has served on the Yale School of Management and the Harvard Business School faculties, teaching in the MBA, doctoral, and executive programs. At Harvard he was Faculty Chairman of the intensive Managing Organizational Effectiveness executive program, which helped CEOs, business presidents and their teams plan major transformation efforts. He was Dean of the Faculty and the Isaac Stiles Hopkins Professor at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, where he also held the rank of University Distinguished Professor. Bob has served for over a decade as a member of the Stanford Executive Institute faculty at Stanford University and on the Advisory Boards of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Organizational Effectiveness Division of The Conference Board, and several leading business schools.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Named among the 50 most powerful women in the world (Times of London) and the 50 most influential business thinkers in the world (Accenture and Thinker 50), Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a renowned social scientist and writer whose work focuses on the dynamics of organizational leadership, change and confidence. She is an exceptionally gifted orator and one of the world’s leading scholars in business management.

Professor Kanter’s themes, particularly those on leadership of turnarounds and mastering change in turbulent times, are particularly relevant in today’s economic environment.

Professor Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights have guided leaders of large and small organizations worldwide for over 25 years, through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations and governments. Former Editor of Harvard Business Review (1989-1992), Professor Kanter received the Academy of Management’s Distinguished Career Award for her scholarly contributions to management knowledge in 2001, and in 2002 was named “Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year” by the World Teleport Association.

A prolific writer, she has authored or co-authored 17 books, which have been translated into 17 languages. Her literary achievements include:

• Her recent work, Confidence: How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End (a New York Times business and #1 BusinessWeek bestseller), which describes the culture and dynamics of high-performance organizations as compared with those in decline, and shows how to lead turnarounds, whether in businesses, hospitals, schools, sports teams, community organizations, or countries.

• Her 18th book, which will appear in August 2009, under the title, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Opportunities, Profits, Growth, and Social Good. It elaborates on her recent Harvard Business Review articles, Transforming Giants and Innovation: The Classic Traps.

• The prizewinning classic, Men & Women of the Corporation (which won the C. Wright Mills award for the year’s best book on social issues), that offered insight into corporate careers and the individual, as well as organizational factors that promote success. A spin-off video, “A Tale of ‘O’: On Being Different,” is among the world’s most widely-used diversity tools, and a related book, Work & Family in the United States, set a policy agenda. In 2001, a coalition of university centers created the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award in her honor for the best research on work/family issues.

• The award-winning book When Giants Learn to Dance, which showed how to master the new terms of competition at the dawn of the global information age.

• World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy, which identified the rise of new business networks and analyzed dilemmas of globalization.

• America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again, which provides a new direction for the United States on the cusp of the Presidential election.

• The Change Masters, which was named one of the most influential business books of the 20th century (Financial Times).

Professor Kanter has received 23 honorary doctoral degrees, as well as numerous leadership awards and prizes for her books and articles. Through Goodmeasure Inc., the consulting group she co-founded, she partnered with IBM to apply her leadership tools to non-business sectors. She is also a Senior Advisor for IBM’s Global Citizenship portfolio.

Professor Kanter advises CEOs of large and small companies, has served on numerous business and non-profit boards, and participates in national commissions including the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors. She speaks widely, often sharing the platform with Presidents, Prime Ministers, and CEOs at national and international events, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Before joining the Harvard Business School faculty, she held tenured professorships at Yale University and Brandeis University and was a Fellow at Harvard Law School, simultaneously holding a Guggenheim Fellowship.

She also chairs a Harvard University group that is creating an innovative initiative on advanced leadership to help successful leaders at the top of their professions address national and global problems.

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 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.

Steven Spear
Authority on Innovation and Operational Excellence

Well known for seminal Harvard Business Review articles, "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System" and "Fixing Healthcare from the Inside Today," McKinsey Award and five-time Shingo Prize winner Steven Spear shows how 'high velocity organizations' outrace their rivals even in the most hyper competitive industries in his award winning and critically acclaimed book, The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition (McGraw-Hill; 2 edition, April 12, 2010).

Drawing on Spear's expertise in process excellence, organizational learning and innovation, competitiveness, and health care delivery, The High-Velocity Edge demonstrates how the leaders of any organization can generate and sustain high speed, broad based improvement, innovation, and invention based on how they design complex systems of work, solve problems, share knowledge, and develop others to do the same. The universality of these approaches is reinforced with examples spanning high tech and heavy industry, new product design and production, software services, health care, and the military.

The ideas in The High-Velocity Edge are well tested in practice. Spear helped develop the Alcoa Business System, which recorded hundreds of millions of dollars in annual operating savings, and he was integral to creating the 'Perfecting Patient Care' system for the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative. PRHI hospitals reduced and eliminated scourges like central line associated infections, surgical site infections, and patient falls. This cut unnecessary suffering, raised quality, and reduced overburden on staff.
Beyond this, Spear has worked with clients as diverse as Lockheed Martin, Intuit, and leading teaching hospitals, has published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Academic Medicine, and he has spoken to audiences ranging from the Association for Manufacturing Excellence to the Institute of Medicine.

Spear is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He has a doctorate from Harvard Business School, masters in engineering and in management from MIT, and a bachelors degree in economics from Princeton. He was previously employed by Prudential-Bache, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the University of Tokyo, and Harvard Business School.

Itay Talgam
Prominent Israeli Orchestra Conductor

Conductor Itay Talgam is one of the leading figures in the Israeli music scene and is a champion of contemporary music. His outstanding achievements have been acknowledged by audiences, critics, as well as by Israel’s Composers Association, which awarded him an honorary prize for his personal contribution in performing and promoting Israeli music.

As Music Director of the Tel-Aviv Symphony Orchestra and of Musica Nova Consort, Talgam won the prestigious prize for “Best Performance of the Year” for Israeli orchestral music awarded by the National Council for the Arts.

Itay’s international debut took place in 1987, when he was chosen by Leonard Bernstein to perform in a special concert with the Orchestre de Paris, with the great Maestro himself conducting the second half of the same concert. Since that highly successful performance, Itay has conducted many orchestras around the globe - being the first Israeli conductor to perform with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Leipzig Opera House.

A native of Tel-Aviv, Itay received his Artist Diploma in Conducting from the Jerusalem Rubin Academy in 1987, being awarded scholarships from the America-Israel cultural foundation. He then studied in the Accademia Chigiana, Siena, with Maestri Franco Ferrara and Guenady Rozhdestvensky and in Tanglewood, under Maestri Seiji Osawa, Leon Fleisher and Lenny Bernstein. In addition, he studied General Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, winning his degree “Cum Laude”.

Itay Talgam has taught orchestral conducting at the Rubin Academy for music, Tel-Aviv University, and the Academy for Music and Dance in Jerusalem. In addition to his current conducting activities, he is intensely involved in many educational projects, both as a Fellow of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership in Jerusalem, and as the creator of the unique ‘Maestro’ leadership programs. He is also a member of the Israeli National Council for the Arts music section.

Noel Tichy
Noted Authority on Leadership

A leading authority on management and leadership development, Dr. Noel Tichy is a professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is also the director of the Global Business Partnership and heads up the Global Leadership in Healthcare Program working with CEOs and their senior teams from major medical centers in the U.S., along with teams in Europe and India.

The former head of General Electric Co.’s famed leadership development center, Crotonville, Noel led the transformation to action learning at GE and has worked with CEOs around the world to develop leadership development capacity. He was also manager of Management Education for GE, where he directed its worldwide development efforts.

Noel consults widely in both the private and public sectors. He is a senior partner in Action Learning Associates. His clients have included: Best Buy, GE, PepsiCo, Coca Cola, GM, Nokia, Nomura Securities, 3M, Daimler-Benz, and Royal Dutch Shell.

Currently, Noel conducts the Cycle of Leadership executive program at the University of Michigan. Most recently, he led the launch of the Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative in partnership with GE, Procter & Gamble, and 3M, designed to create a national model for partnership opportunities between business and society emphasizing free enterprise and democratic principles.

Noel has long been regarded as a staple of management literacy as noted by his rating as one of the “Top 10 Management Gurus” by BusinessWeek and Business 2.0. He is also the author of numerous books and articles, including Cycle of Leadership and The Leadership Engine. His most recent book, coauthored with Warren Bennis, is Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls.

Noel has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of Business Strategy and was the founding editor and chief of Human Resource Management, co-authored with Warren Bennis.

Prior to joining the Michigan faculty, he served for nine years on the Columbia University Business School faculty.

Paul Van Riper
Expert on 21st Century Leadership and Decorated Marine Corps General

Paul Van Riper served more than 41 years in the United States Marine Corps, including wartime service in Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm. One of the keenest minds on the future of warfare and military strategy, he continues to serve his country by teaching at the National Defense University, the Marine Corps University, and other military education institutions. He also consults part-time for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and to a variety of private companies and organizations. In 2002, he was chosen to lead Team Red, the “enemy forces” in Millennium Challenge 02, a $250 million war game designed by the DOD’s Joint Forces Command to test the adaptability and resiliency of the new military. After only four days into the simulated three-week battle, he had sunk a large part of the U.S. naval forces, using decidedly low-tech and unconventional maneuvers and tactics. He continues to advocate a better understanding of the nature of warfare, and cautions against relying too heavily on unproven technologies or concepts. Paul is a captivating speaker on his favorite topics: addressing the new realities of warfare and terrorism, retooling command and control for organizational effectiveness, complexity and adaptability, and the history of strategy and conflict.

Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Technical Strategy and Innovation Expert

For over 30 years Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger influenced and shaped IBM’s innovation and technical strategy. During his tenure he was responsible for identifying emerging technologies and marketplace developments critical to the future of the IT industry, and organizing appropriate activities in and outside of IBM in order to capitalize on them. He led a number of successful companywide initiatives including the Internet and e-business, supercomputing, Linux, Grid computing and, in October 2002, IBM's On Demand Business initiative. Retired in 2007, Irving continues to consult for IBM on major new market strategies like Cloud Computing and Smart Planet.

A widely sought after expert in the fields of innovation, technology and transformation, Irving was appointed Strategic Advisor in March 2008 at Citigroup to assist with innovation and technology initiatives across the company. He is helping to formulate Citigroup initiatives related the future of global banking, including mobile banking, Internet-based financial services, and financial systems modeling and analysis. He was a member of President Obama's Technology, Innovation and Government Reform transition team. The goal of this initiative was to developed a set of policy proposals to make government more open and transparent, leverage high-technology to grow the economy and create jobs, and use social networking tools to involve citizens in government transformation through their collective energy and expertise.

Irving is Visiting Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Engineering Systems Division, Adjunct Professor in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Imperial College Business School, and Senior Fellow at the Levin Institute of the State University of New York. In addition, he is a member of several boards including the InnoCentive Advisory Board, the Spencer Trask Collaborative Innovations Board, the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Scientists, and the Visiting Committee for the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago.

He was co-chair of the President Bill Clinton’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, as well as a founding member of the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. He is a former member of the University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratories, of the Board of Overseers for Fermilab and of BP’s Technology Advisory Council. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A native of Cuba, he was named the 2001 Hispanic Engineer of the Year.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger received an M.S. and a Ph. D. in physics from the University of Chicago.

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