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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's forthcoming book Living Irrationally (June 2010) explores fascinating findings from the hundreds of 'experiments' Dan does for his research. He'll dive into personal life (what makes us happy, how we as humans adapt and change, how we date and find mates), work life (what really motivates us, financial vs. non-financial rewards, trust, revenge) and the slippery slope of cheating (how it starts, how it snowballs). He'll pay special attention to the financial and debt crisis, and the post-crash economy and what this means for employers, marketers and public policy. Ariely is also author of the best-selling Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. In this book, Dan presents 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'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.

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 School Publishing 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 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.

Sam Gosling
Psychologist, Author, Expert on Human Perception

Sam Gosling is an author and associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a nationally regarded researcher and innovator in the field of personality and social psychology. His work has been widely covered in the media, including The New York Times, Psychology Today, NPR, and "Good Morning America," and his research is featured in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. Gosling is the recipient of the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution.

Gosling’s recently published book, Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, is a provocative and witty look at how our private spaces—from boardroom to bedroom—reveal our personalities, whether we know it or not! Does what's on your desk reveal what's on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about you? For the last ten years Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds, he explores not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected—and unplanned—ways, but also how we create personality in the first place, communicate it others, and interpret the world around us.

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.

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.

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
Expert on Social Media and Marketing; Author of Best-selling Book Groundswell

Charlene Li is an influential thought leader and guide on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies, interactive media, and marketing. The co-author of the business best-seller, Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies, Charlene is about to release her newest book, Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead (May 2010). Open Leadership will addresses the challenges facing leadership of the modern organization–given the dramatic adoption and impact social technologies have had on customer, partner, and employee relationships, how can companies not only manage but thrive in this new open, transparent, authentic world? Named "One of the Most Influential Women in Technology" by Fast Company magazine, Charlene is the founder of Altimeter Group which provides speaking and consulting services to organizations looking to understand and thrive in a new economy driven by social media tools and techniques. You can also read insights from Charlene on her blog, "The Altimeter."

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, USA Today, 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.

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.

Nitin Nohria
Scholar, Transformation and Leadership; Professor, Harvard Business School

A prolific author and noted expert on leadership and sustainable corporate performance, Nitin Nohria is considered to be a renaissance business man by both his audiences and peers. Nitin is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is the author of more than 10 books and over 100 journal articles, book chapters, cases, working papers, and notes.

Nitin's books on leadership include Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership, which chronicles how leaders from different backgrounds rose to power in American business. This book is a companion to In Their Time, which draws lessons from some of the greatest American business leaders of the 20th century. The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey examines the role of ambition in the making and unmaking of leaders. And Beyond the Hype: Rediscovering the Essence of Management looks beyond the silver bullet ideas that leaders are constantly being exhorted to adopt and uncovers the long-lived fundamentals of leadership. One of these fundamentals is a deep understanding of human motivation, which is explored in greater depth in Driven: How Human Nature Shapes our Choices.

On the topic of corporate performance, he has written What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success, a systematic large-scale study of management practices that distinguish companies that deliver superior performance over a 10-year period. Changing Fortunes: Remaking the Industrial Corporation examines the decline of industrial firms during the last quarter of the 20th century and discusses what can be learned from this experience. And Breaking the Code of Change is a compilation of ideas on how companies can master the trade-offs that must be navigated as they attempt to change.

He has served as an advisor and consultant to several large and small companies across the world. He has been interviewed by ABC, CNN, and NPR, and cited frequently in BusinessWeek, Economist, Financial Times, Fortune, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

He teaches courses on leadership and corporate effectiveness across Harvard Business School's MBA, Ph.D., and Executive Education programs. He has served in various leadership roles at Harvard Business School including Unit Head, Director of the Division of Research, and Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development. He also served as a visiting faculty member at the London Business School in 1996.

Prior to joining the Harvard Business School faculty in July 1988, Professor Nohria received his Ph.D. in Management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (which honored him as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2007).

Howard Rheingold
Pioneering Thinker on the Future of Technology and Society

There are a lot of voices talking about social media today, but Howard Rheingold defined the field before it existed. A noted author and commentator, Rheingold has a proven record of accurate technology and social forecasting, over two decades of syndicated columns, best-selling books, and pioneering online enterprises. His latest research and forthcoming book focuses on 21st century literacies -- how individuals and organizations learn to use digital media effectively and credibly. He coined the term "virtual community" in 1987

An acknowledged authority on the marriage of mobile phone, PC, and wireless internet, Rheingold's previous work reveals how this convergence has changed the way we meet, mate, entertain, govern, and conduct business. His book Smart Mobs, named one of the “Big Ideas books of 2002” by The New York Times, chronicles the new forms of collective action and cooperation made possible by mobile communications, pervasive computing, and the Internet.

Rheingold is the recipient of a 2008 MacArthur Knowledge-Networking Grant through the Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition. He was founding Executive Editor of Hotwired, the first commercial webzine where the web-based discussion forum and the online banner ad were invented. Rheingold has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, ABC Primetime Live, CNN, CBS News, NBC News, Macneill-Lehrer Report, NPR’s Fresh Air and Marketplace. He currently teaches at Stanford University.

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.

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, Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition (McGraw Hill 2009).

Drawing on Spear's expertise in process excellence, organizational learning and innovation, competitiveness, and health care delivery, Chasing the Rabbit 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 Chasing the Rabbit 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.

Margot Stern Strom
Social Change Agent; Executive Director, Facing History and Ourselves

Margot Stern Strom is an international leader in education for justice and the preservation of democracy. Through her commitment to honoring the voices of teachers and students and her deep belief that history matters, she has enabled millions of students to study the Holocaust, to investigate root causes of racism, antisemitism and violence, and to realize their obligations and capabilities as citizens in a democracy.

Margot has been the Executive Director of Facing History and Ourselves since its inception. With her leadership, Facing History and Ourselves has become known worldwide for the high quality of its materials and programs for both students and teachers.

While teaching social studies at the Runkle School in Brookline, Massachusetts, and studying moral development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1976, Margot attended a conference on the Holocaust that inspired her to develop lessons and classroom resources that focused on this then-neglected history. It deepened her commitment to understanding issues of individual responsibility and moral decision-making in adolescents and defined her own learning about democracy.

Margot moved from the classroom to become project director and, in 1980, Executive Director of Facing History and Ourselves. Through pilot workshops and in consultation with scholars and teachers, she created the Facing History scope and sequence: the journey that students undertake to learn about the impact of history on their own lives and their futures.

Facing History teaches the skills of in-depth historical thinking in the belief that all students are capable of attaining the high standards necessary to engage deeply in its resource materials. Through using these skills, students develop greater understanding of the tragedies in humanity’s history and greater compassion for others.

Margot has developed a world-class nonprofit organization that sets the standard for demonstrated impact, a strong business model, and outstanding leadership by board and staff. She has given children and adults a platform to discuss the most important moral questions we must all ask and answer.

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.

Sherry Turkle
MIT Professor; Founder and director, MIT Initiative on Technology and the Self

A professor, author, consultant and researcher, Sherry Turkle has spent the last 20 years researching the psychology of people’s relationships with technology. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. She is the founder and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, a center of research and reflection on the evolving connections between people and artifacts.

One of the few researchers in this field, Sherry offers a unique perspective on meaning and mechanisms – on humans and technology and social interaction. Sherry is the author of several books including Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. She is the editor of Evocative Objects: Thinking With Things, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, and The Inner History of Devices.

Profiles of Sherry have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired Magazine. She is a featured media commentator on the effects of technology for CNN, NBC, ABC, and NPR, including appearances on such programs as Nightline and 20/20. Professor Turkle received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist.

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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